This daughter? Pure delight. I could write about her forever. She was born in a Connecticut hospital on a gurney in the middle of the hallway being quickly rolled to the delivery room. We didn’t quite make it! My mom came for a visit and held her when she was only days old and sang to her. As she sang, we heard a soft little baby sound humming along in response to her grandma’s song. There was something magical…
Teeny, delicate, quiet, adorable and sweet. That’s who Melissa was when she made her first appearance. She arrived seven surprising minutes after her sister. I was expecting her sister, baby number three but number four? No, I wasn’t expecting her! And neither were the team of Obstetricians who assured me every time I asked, that there was only one baby in there…..no matter how many limbs I thought I felt! That was many years ago. In today’s world, I’d…
All my growing up years I dreamed how it would be when I was a mom. I’d take great care of my kids, keep them safe and love them deep and they’d love me back. I’d give them everything they wanted, everything I could think of, and everything I didn’t get emotionally. I’d be their best friend and then when they grew up, they’d put me high up on a pedastol, maybe even enter me in BEST MOM contests….