Or maybe even Etsy, since technically I made her… My kid turns crackers into liquid gold… And here she is after eating the golden cracker…
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Whatta mighty good man. I know a lot of folks have been following the goings on here at The Wink since I announced last fall that we were having another baby. I’ve not really gone into the birth story and I don’t think I will. It seems to me that they are always very moving and amazing…and long, so very, very long. It’s just not something you can really fit into a tidy little blog entry. What I can do is give you a little peek into why I am more in love than ever with Sean…ok, typing that I realize that for some people, hearing the gushing stories of happily married people can be about as exciting as, well, a birth story. I’ll…
“Did she leave?” Briar asked, her blue eyes shining with knowing. Grandma had carefully explained that she would be leaving, from the sun’s first move toward the horizon, she began to tenderly plant the seeds. “Grandma is going to be going on a plane, but we’ll talk on the phone.” Her voice was light, her face cheery as she painted a picture of phone calls and memories. The girls nodded at the suggestion of practicing a phone call. “Hello, Briar? Avery? It’s Grandma.” “Hi Grandma.” “Hi Gramma.” The role playing only held their attention for so long, requiring Grandma to revisit the theme every so often to ensure that when she left in the pre-dawn hours, the empty bed the girls would wake up…
The last few weeks of pregnancy brought with them the fretting of the early days- Would she be healthy?Did we ask for too much by having a third?Would the girls be devastated?Did I drink too much coffee?Was painting the bathroom a bad idea?Would Sean and I be ok?Could we love her like Bri and Ave?Could it be magic again?Would she be ok? I am weak from the force with which my worries were quieted. She is simply everything that we had dreamed of and so much more that we hadn’t known we’d been missing. She has, with a wink of her stormy sea blue eyes, transformed our family, sealing us with a brilliant ribbon of wonder and love. Oh, and laughter, yes laughter indeed.…
So, there is this… Literally like holding sunshine and giggles in my arms. Pressing my face against her silky head, feeling her fingers on my skin, her heart beating against my chest as little toes burrow in my still soft belly, I ache with contentment, mystified that I should be so lucky, and then I see this… And I think I might burst with the beauty of my world. Off to weep a happy mess!
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