Happy Friday! Grocery day is tomorrow, so I’ll be here this morning! Hope everyone has a great weekend! Today is the Gaelic celebration of Imbolc, which marks the end of winter and the beginning of early spring. I remember an Imbolc 21 years ago, when I was pregnant with Bit. I was having some pretty strong Braxton Hicks contractions, and I was talking to Brigid about the upcoming birth, and making sure that the baby was healthy and strong. Bit was due on Valentine’s day, but didn’t make it into the world until the 26th of February. And while she lost some weight in utero, because conditions were deteriorating from her being late, she was born healthy and strong. She still is, 21 years later, despite having caught RSV when she was just 8 months old, despite having been a brittle asthmatic when she was a toddler and preschooler. Despite almost needing to be hospitalized during covid and that affecting her lungs, she’s still a LOT healthier than I was at 21. And I don’t think anyone can deny she is strong.
In a few weeks she’ll be 21, and everything that comes with that. Fully grown, and thriving. She has plans for a career, for life, and she’s rolled with the changes she’s had to make to those plans due to things beyond her control. I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome.
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Wednesday Pam from Calif
Thursday art ah zen
Friday FloridaSNMOM
Saturday FloridaSNDad
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