December

Here we come! Fast approaching our first Christmas together as a family. Mommy, Daddy and Hannah. My heart has ached to have a family of my own to share these special times with. I am glad that you don't know too much about what is going on. We dont have any traditions started or even thought of. Daddy has been working so hard and hunting to put meat in the freezer. Last night he got two deer and he was just so proud of himself! I wish you could have seen his face. You are getting better about sleeping through the night and I am doing better with just going with the flow of the day. I think we found a new church yesterday, too! I miss our old church in Mount Pleasant Ohio so much! You never have met anyone from there yet, except for Aunt Barb! We will be going back there to meet some folks soon. I can't wait for you to see some of them. Your little toes on you right foot look like they will not be fully developed. So you have something about you that will be a little bit different. There's nothing wrong with that! We are all different in one way or another. It is just how we handle it that makes it be a big deal or a something special about us.

Daddy and I just love you so much. Every day we watch you see new things and adjust to new things and Daddy just can't wait until you can give him a big hug all by yourself and don't cry when he holds you.

New Mom Euphoria

At the age of 39, I was fairly certain that child rearing was out of the picture for several reasons. Some reasons to include punishment for choices made in the past, others to predicitons from the medical profession stating as much and then the age and lack of husband factor.

Yet here is proof that life exists and that God truly has a sense of humor. We are a family 13 months after meeting each other. My little alien (which is what she looks like in the cool new ultrasound pictures)at 20 weeks was moving like crazy and hard to photograph! Then at 41 weeks, she arrives.....forced into the world from her comfy little nest! Picture perfect (to us of course) and ready to meet her fan club.

In her first 25 hours, she is lifting her little head, looking directly at her Mom and Dad and the nurses and holding her pacifier. We are amazed at this little human in front of us with her frowns, smiles, waves, fists and her instinct to eat as if on cue!

We are blessed by God to have been given this gift of life to protect, groom, train and send out into the world. I gaze at this little face and wonder what she will become. Who she will be.