Blessed be...

Sometime last night, or should I say very early this morning, as I was snuggling into bed after a feeding, it dawned on me how absolutely blessed I have been. I can go back and chronicle all the things from since I was a kid, but no one has that kinda time, especially a new mom!

First and foremost, I have been incredibly blessed with this sweet girl you see above. People have been passing around the word perfect (which I have never used much in regular life simply cuz I'm a realist and perfect doesn't ring true very often), but in this case, who's to argue? She is perfect!

Secondly, I am super fortunate to have this kind of support system surroundung Lucy and myself. From the first days of my talking about having a baby, til that first night in the hospital, Grandma and Papa doing a wonderful job of hiding just how scared they were for my not yet born baby and Joan spending the night so Lucy could stay in the room with me, til now receiving well-wishes and kind thoughts and words of encouragement, to gifts which randomly show up on my doorstep. Until you are in a place like this, you can not know what joy and happiness is truly.

I know I keep saying thank you to you all and if I could come up with a better way to show my gratitude or find different words, I would...I could list you all separately, but that seems too Academy Award-ish and the music would be playing to rush me off stage before I was even a quarter of the way through. I keep thinking of something my mom said as we were patiently waiting for Lucy to arrive. She said, "Do you realize how many people out there are thinking about you...some you have never even met." And then I understood how the ripple effect works when you choose to surround yourself with such spectacular people.