GotBlessing.com

It’s A Girl!!  I have a new niece.  My sister-in-law gave birth Friday evening, to a beautiful baby girl, 6 pounds, 6 ounces and 20 inches long.   This day will be one that I will NEVER forget.  I had the honor and blessing of being her doula.  A doula is a birthing companion - a woman who supports the laboring woman to help her physically, and mentally, and makes sure that she is well taken care of.  What an honor!  What an incredible experience.

 It began Friday afternoon with her water breaking.  She was having a home birth, (water birth) so I arrived at her home at about 6:30 PM.  The midwife and interns were already there.  My sister-in-law was walking around, hanging out in between contractions.  They were not that strong at this point.  Long story short, after an all nighter, and no baby, the midwife, Debbie, checked my sister-in-law again and said that her water her resealed! Can you believe that??  Do you know what time this was?  8 AM!!!  We had been up all night, just to be sent home.  I didn’t know that could happen.  We all went our separate ways, knowing we would be back in the near future for the real thing.  Truly, the night was super fun.  I haven’t been to a sleep over in ages and it was a blast. 

I went home attempting to rest, but I have 3 kids, so do you think I rested after they had a full night’s sleep? At about 3 PM, she called and said, “I think we are on again!”  Her water wasn’t broken but she was having strong contractions.  So, I got myself together, threw stuff in a bag, packed up the kids, an away we went.  When I got there, I knew it was the real thing.  She was in bed, breathing threw each contraction.  She was amazing.  I can honestly say that she will forever be one of my heroes!  I have never seen someone so connected with her mind, body, and spirit.  It was beautiful.

 As I said earlier, I had the privilege to help her through her labor.  I am forever blessed and totally grateful for this experience.  My niece is here, healthy and of course beautiful. 

Be Blessed!

We got a puppy!!!  We are loving her.  She is a lab/schipperke mix.  We got her from the Humane Society last week.  I have been doing all sorts of reading about puppies and training them.  My goodness, let me tell you, if you don’t have one and haven’t had the pleasure of a puppy, it is so much like training a toddler!  I am constantly redirecting her from “puppy biting” us to a toy, or taking her out and praising for her for going pee-pee, (or poopie) and even getting up every couple of hours during the night to take her out!  It has only been a week, but Ginger is a blessing!  For the last 9 years, I have had a baby every 3 years.   This time, I got a puppy!!!  We are really excited. 

I will enjoy sharing about the puppy blessings as they come.  She is truly sweet, playful and fun. 

I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like having a bad day.  I don’t even like having bad moments, but of course they happen to all of us.  It stinks.  Drains you energy.   Right now, I would LOVE to eat a ton of dark chocolate, with a chocolate milkshake chaser!  Yep, feeling a bit lousy right now.  

Today was not what I would call a joy filled day.  Not because it was all bad, but because like all of us who have the blessing of children, parenting is a tough business.  Sometimes in that tough business, in order to teach valuable lessons, we  have to set examples, and be the “bad guy” in the eyes our beautiful children. I don’t like the hat I had to wear today, but it was necessary. 

 We all have lessons to learn and we will keep walking into walls until we figure out how to do it right.  We can choose to go through this life and our lessons with a miserable attitude, or we can embrace the lessons and grow stronger. 

Let us always remember that our Heavenly Daddy is right here waiting.  I am going to lean on Him, instead of the chocolate madness I mentioned earlier.