I’m a super planner…but August decided to ignore my plans! The first major surprise was that our daughter decided to show up three weeks early from her September 7th due date, which began a cascade of plans going out the window. I had somehow deluded myself into thinking I could plan everything to perfection…but life had something else in mind. Although our introduction came earlier than expected, we were excited to meet our little girl, and my wife was ready to be done being pregnant. I had planned to be in the delivery room for the birth of my daughter and cut the umbilical cord like I did for our son, but that was something else that didn’t go according …
