https://celebrantmag.com/a-baby-blessing-for-a-friend/ Celebrate Always & in All Ways! Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.6 https://celebrantmag.com/a-baby-blessing-for-a-friend/#comment-49 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:46:45 +0000 https://www.celebrantmag.com/?p=335#comment-49 What a beautiful message. I am so touched. I confess, this post is about me and Sarah has been a wonderful friend as I embark on this new journey… she gets it! My life was coasting along in parental bliss with the amazing daughter I could have ever dreamed of and my struggle was only what to do with all my time now that she had flown the nest for college. I didn’t expect to have children again (or to marry the man of my dreaams and move to New York) but the most amazing love bloomed out of nowhere and changed everything. How “old” is “too old” to have another child is something that weighed on me. For all of five minutes. At 39 weeks on Wednesday, my pregnancy this time around has been filled with signifantly more fatigue, aches and pains that come as expected with my “higher risk” status and age 20-year time out. Now, I am just days away from “you-and-I” becoming “you and I” as we welcome our precious new daughter into the world. How many people have a chance to live two lifetimes of motherhood in one? I am very blessed.

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