With January drawing to a close, I decided to post one more of the two most precious ones in this world to me! I still cannot believe I am the mother of an 18 year old young woman...my!I cannot believe it is already Thursday, I think I am losing time...better then my mind, I suppose!
Enjoy your evening!
Waiting to go eat!
At Red Lobster, waiting for our food. I think they were on the receiving end of some unwanted father talk...but they endulged him, afterall, they were a captive audience at this point.
The Bud doesn't do seafood, but she tried anyway...he went with chicken tenders and mozzarella sticks, while the rest of us had various forms of shrimp.
This was at an Easter gathering in Italy, the games were supposed to be for the children but some boys never grow up! So they were out there giving it a whirl.
They did end up coming in last place...but they were still winners to us :)
Italy 2004
Since MiB is flying in today (in fact, I am heading out the door to the airport now) we are celebrating LilBlue's birthday moreso today rather then yesterday. However, we did go ahead and have a little bit of celebrating. She opened her cards and then we went to her favorite fastfood joint, Taco Hell, ugh, I really dislike that place but put on my best smile and ate with the best of them!
At 11:33 a.m. a tiny little girl entered the world, she weighed in at 5#s 9oz. She was 19 inches long. While she was considered preterm, she was not premature, she was absolutely perfect in every way, 10 fingers, 10 toes, dark full head of hair, and a cute button nose, I was thrilled! I had just birthed totally w/o drugs, partly because I wanted to and partly because it just went very quickly and I didn’t have time to change my mind!
This is Unlce G, MiBs identical twin, who was the first of family to arrive within an hour of her birth.
Since it was the wee hours of the morning, the ER folks sent me upstairs for “monitoring” I was monitored throughout the night, the doctor showed up around 8:00 a.m. and “checked” me, then said we are going to have a baby today, I told him we could not have a baby today it was too soon and that I wanted to go home. He said too late, you are in labor (they had internal and external monitors on but I really wasn’t’ feeling the contractions) and that baby is coming out today. It was then I started to get a tad bit panicky, I was alone at the hospital and no one even knew it…and now they were telling me I was going to have the baby.
Quickly phone calls were made to family in MO, they would be leaving ASAP. Local phone calls to church family were made and “sisters” were on their way. Within minutes of the “sisters” arriving, the baby was coming and MO family arrived within a few hours of her birth. It was not at all how I planned it, it was very emotional and knowing that my husband missed it made me all the more weepy.
“They” were able to get a line through to MiB so I did get to talk with him. All I could really tell him was that she was beautiful. He says he knew something was up because he had called the house in the night and no one answered; then when he was woke up and told to go wait for a phone call he said he just had that feeling something was going on. He was relieved to learn all was well.
What I didn’t know was that “the war” broke out. That was not revealed to me until the next morning, when I was being discharged from the base hospital because they are deploying the med folks. My family had kept the TV off in my room, I had no idea, they didn’t want me to worry, yeah right!
LilBlue has been dubbed “Stormy” since she was born the day Desert Storm began turns 18 today, Happy Birthday sweetheart, God truly blessed us the day you were born! 143
Come join the photo phun over at Carrie's place; you'll be glad you did!!!
I don't know if this award comes with any conditions or criteria...but I would like to thank the Academy for giving me this award...oh wait, it's not that kind of award, ha :) Well, anyway, I thinks it's pretty spiffy special, and as my southern friends say--so there ya go and there ya are!
Oh, don't forget to play along with Candid Carrie and the gang for Friday Foto Fiesta! It's fun and best of all completely FREE :)
So do you make resolutions? I do not, have not for some time, but if you do I hope you have success with them, unfortunately most people do not.
I mostly hope you will find contentment in 2009, real peace in your life, honesty about where you are, where you're going and how you are going to get there. I think I have shared this before but I find a lot of comfort in Jeremiah 29:11--"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." God is faithful, I try to be faithful to Him, it's sometimes discouraging but when I look back on hard times in our past I see His faithfulness and that spurs me on.
blessings!
