One Year ago...and a few days

I know exactly how you feel, little man. Struggling to kep your eyes open while holding a newborn and posing for a picture can be hard. But one year ago on Saturday, my life changed forever. The little girl who had haunted my dreams and for whom my soul ached finally made her debut. I have longed for this baby all my life and didn't even know it until she was here. I never cried at the births of my boys. Not because I wasn't thrilled. I was. But my girl has been coming to me in my dreams since I was 15 and I have a connection to her that my spirit kept hidden from me until she was here. If I had truly known about her, I wouldn't be able to have survived without her. So it was that my whole body wept with joy the second I was told "It's a girl" in the delivery room. I don't even know where the tears came from. They were just suddenly there, dripping off my chin. I could hardly breathe. I only remember holding out my arms for her and sobbing, "I TOLD you (hic, hic, hic) it was a (hic, hic, hic) girl, Jerry!"

So, Happy Birthday, baby girl! I love you!!!!!!!!