Passages...

I can not begin to describe the mixture of emotions that I have experienced in the last 24 hours as I have seen the circle of life complete itself in the birth of my beautiful new granddaughter, Harmony Grace Higginbotham. She tried to jump into the world feet-first...literally. So mom underwent a C-section to help her get here just a bit faster. She arrived at 12:37pm yesterday afternoon, weighing 8lbs., 2.3oz and measuring 19 1/2 inches long...just a few tenths of an oz. off her daddy's stats. She has so many features of both her parents, but is unmistakeably her own little person, and I can't wait to watch the changes she will undergo as the little girl in her unfolds into the woman she will become one day.

This Grandparent thing is going to take a lot of getting used to, I can see right off. It makes me wonder how our parents managed to bite their tongues without doing major damage when I had mine. Already I have had to resist the urge to charge in and take over, because I've "been there and done that" and have the experience now that mine are grown to do so much better than I did with them, knowing absolutely nothing! Such a shame that we have to go into the parent thing without that experience, and, well....

I guess Harmony is not the only one who has gone through a passage.

Welcome to the world, my beautiful little princess. I'll try not to spoil you too much, or get in the way of your parents earning their own stripes like I did. But I sure do have a greater appreciation of my parents today than I did yesterday.