Friday, April 22, 2011

New Birth/New Reason to Sew Something with LOVE

April's beautiful baby girl, Camilla was born yesterday evening. She is a healthy little one, "practically perfect in every way, " to quote Mary Poppins which her big sister and I get the privilege of seeing on stage tomorrow. Aelyn is especially interested in the costumes. See, sewing is in the blood.
Life is so wonderful and I feel extremely blessed to be a grammy of two precious girls and we also have one charming young lad who belongs to April's sister Erin. My mind is busy thinking of the things that I will sew... a tiny dress for Camilla, a pink skirt for Aelyn (she picked the fabric) and a new toy tote for Jayden.
Off the sewing theme I must share with you a top moment of my life which occurred last night just an hour an a half before the birth of the baby. My husband and I were waiting at the hospital. I was pretty emotional, bawling my eyes out. We walked to the parking lot to pick up Aelyn who had fallen asleep on the way and here comes April, in labor and walking through the parking lot under the light of the street lamps, just glowing with expectancy. She looked like the Madonna to me. Then here comes Jeff charging after her in his Chuck Taylor's, looking like prince charming. They were simply the most beautiful people in the world. Jeff had wanted to drop her off at the door but April insisted on walking. Well, my tears kept falling and I took a mental picture of the moment that I will hold forever dear to my heart.
Happy Easter or Weekend or Whatever you celebrate to All our friends,
Anita, a very content grammy.

11 comments:

Susan said...

Congratulations all the way from Australia! She is a beautiful baby! What a special time this is for you all!

Bless by Tone said...

Congratulations to you and blessings on the new little one. Tone

andrea creates said...

congratulations !!
she's so cute :)

LucindaM said...

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful picture and story of your daughter. What a blessing for your family this Easter Weekend.

I'll be in central Ohio Saturday and plan to stop by an pick up a fat quarter or two for our modern quilt guild exchange in Ann Arbor this week.

samandpeteVDP said...

Yay! She's beautiful!! Congrats to Anita, April and the whole family!! Lovely post as well!

Maureen Bowman said...

You are a wonderful Grammy! The girls and Jayden are lucky to have you. Your post brought tears to my eyes. I love you Anita!

Anita Bowman said...

Thanks Maureen. I love you. Anita

SharePoint Server 2010 said...

Awww so sweet! Congratulations dear!

Michele said...

Many blessings, Anita. How lovely she is!

Patti said...

Beautiful!

BTW, my daughter saw Mary Poppins that same afternoon and loved it! Hope April did, as well!

the Long ladies said...

Congratulations!! Camilla is beautiful.

xxx the Long ladies