Dear LJ - a belated announcement

[rn_chapel]

Hi, everyone! I'm pretty late making this announcement, but things have been hectic, especially since Jim became a teenager and isn't really available for co-parenting. The short version is that, after a mercifully short labor, her friends and family have welcomed Darcy Kirk Chapel into the universe. She's got ten fingers and ten toes and is as

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[lt_moreau]

I am one of those who heard through the grapevine, but I realize now that I never offered my congratulations. I am so sorry for that lapse. May I stop by and see you both some time, just to say hello?

[rn_chapel]

Sure! We're usually awake mid-morning or thereabouts. I try to get out of my quarters for a little bit in the afternoon or evening.

[dctr_mccoy]

Glad you liked it. Not gonna lie, I have a soft spot for little girls.

Sounds like motherhood suits you. Real happy that everything's going well for you.

So... Jim's a teenager?

[rn_chapel]

Thank you. I'm happy, too.

And, yeah. Fourteen or fifteen, I think. There are a couple of other people who are younger than they usually are running around out here, too. So far nobody is as little as you all were after that transporter incident, at least.

[dctr_mccoy]

If there's one thing constant in this universe is that it has a real sense of humor.

We had some people turn into cats here for a while... yeah, I don't even know.

[rn_chapel]

Cats?

I'm really starting to think that unplanned-pregnancy-via-man-from-other-universe is actually pretty normal.

...Cats? Really? What the fuck?

[original_fine]

Um... I guess I probably already said congratulations, but... Congratulations.

[rn_chapel]

Thanks. And you too, I guess, though it feels extremely weird to say so.

[original_fine]

Yeah, I didn't really, um...

Do anything.

[rn_chapel]

I think that point is debatable, but I get what you're saying.

How're you holding up?