July 10, 2005

No, We Do Not Yet Have A Baby!!

But odds are in our favor that it will happen soon!

Her original due date had been July 13th

When she had her first ultrasound, what seems like years ago, the doctor changed to to the 10th.

Now that seems cruel!

If she had left it at the 13th, you set your "radar" for that date.

Anything sooner would be a gift.

Now, anything after today is "overdue"

How many phone calls does one have to take and say, "no, nothing yet"

Every night I go to bed hoping to get that call in the middle of the night.

I am "nesting"..must be "sympathy nesting"...my house has never been so clean!

I keep having to remind myself that it isn't my baby....I want to kidnap him and hide away here with his wonderful baby smells, soft skin, beautiful eyes and (God willing) red hair!! (Sorry Rob, here I go again with the red hair thing...but I'll love him no matter what color his hair is).

As the time grows closer, I have become very emotional. Not just in anticipation of my grandson, but also for the journey upon which my daughter is soon to embark. I know she is a woman, a wife, a sister, an aunt, a granddaughter, but in my soul, she is still my Kelly.

In my highly charged emotional state, I am adding another poem for my beautiful, strong, vulnerable, sophisticated, innocent, complicated daughter...

A Mother's Child
by Mom
A mother's child is every breath that she takes,

Walking hand in hand, she is every step that she makes.

And as her steps grow into strides,

She's still a child, in mother's eyes.

Every ache and pain that she shall feel,

Mother will share and with love she will kneel.

She will pray to God to take care of her child,

To protect her and guide her through every mile.

Her child is the very core of her soul,

From baby in arms to an adult she has grown.

For to a mother, her child will always stay,

The precious infant she held that day.

Update you soon!!