it's official :o)

I have officially been a mother for 29 years now.

february 22nd, 1980 daniel was born.....i remember nearly everything about that day....he was a big baby, 8 lbs. 11 oz. and was a hard delivery for me. I remember the feelings of pre-labor and then real labor starting that morning. i remember the emotions of being a single mother, and i remember my friend kendyl coming to be there with me....along with my family. i do have to say, my family was very supportive of me. my parents had been planning a weekend trip to sacramento (we lived in san jose) with some friends. i was glad that i knew early enough in the morning that i was in labor to have them still be home. I would have been alone then, not driving, and not really knowing what to do....how differently they did things back then at the hospitals. i stayed for 3 days--most of it pure hell, but i did love having the visitors :o) my grandparents and aunts and uncles and siblings and parents....i was soooo happy to beable to come home.....daniel came home with little bandages wrapping his knees. he was sure a determined and strong baby. he would clutch the sheets with his large fists and pull and drag himself, he had rubbed his knees raw on those horrid hospital sheets. you could not leave him alone on even a king size bed as he would drag himself around on it....he was got his first teeth at 4 months and started crawling on all fours at 5 months....walking around furniture at 6 months....he taught himself to read at age 2.....i better stop or covering the next 29 years could take forever.....

six years later, february 22, 1986, while preparing to have a birthday party, i went into labor. i had to find a friend to host the party for me while i had the joy of going to the hospital to have jenna.....it was my favorite labor and delivery. i remember nearly everything about that day too....i had the best doctor that let me labor and deliver in the same room....that was a really new concept back then......we only stayed for 15 hours and home i went....she was such an easy kid to raise, she mostly raised herself. jenna just always did the right thing.....what a blessing she has always been to us......now, at 23 she waits to deliver her own little baby.....i wonder what her labor and birth experience will be like, what little silas will be like....i hope and pray he is wonderful like his mama.....


so, we are on baby watch.....she is 3 cm. dialated and nearly all effaced and if she does not begin labor on her own by friday, she will be induced....today is matthew's fathers birthday....it would be great if silas and mike shared the same birthday....we were hoping that silas would share his birthday with jenna and daniel.....oh well....

it is also official now that daniel and marissa will be getting married--after he is divorced LOL for his birthday, he took marissa to disneyland and they had a great day. he proposed in new orleans square near the fountain....she said yes of course, and he was releived to not have the pressure of carrying that beautiful ring anymore for fear of losing it....was very happy to put it on her finger......we are really happy for them.....coz, did i happen to say that we love marissa? we do. and we welcome her to our clan....she must be brave to take on daniel and his clan....