I found out I was pregnant on December 6th. We were on our way out to the bar to celebrate Alabama's National Championship win- and I thought, "I better take a test just to be sure." Good thing I did. With the excitement and the holidays I didn't start my writing to Chamblee until January 1. I decided early on that I was going to write to her every day- about every step of my pregnancy. The good times and the bad. The easy days and the hard. The fun planning and the stressful. So I did just that. Some days I wrote more than others, and some days all I had to say was 'I love you' or 'TGIF!' I think it will be fun for her,
and for me, to look back on. It will be good for her to know what it was like for me to carry her, and how dearly and deeply she was loved from the
moment we knew she was coming. So, I bought a desk calendar and wrote to her on the back of each day. This calendar is still sitting on my night stand- with the date: August 6. I never got to write to her on the 7th because I was in the hospital. Or the 8th, the day of her birth. Or the 9th or the 10th... I guess after we got home it was a whirlwind and now, 5 weeks later, it still sits:
I love that this is the verse on the front of the day she was born.
It is one of my favorites!
Here are all of the days laid out.
I am calculating around 208 entries.
Hot pink entry on the far left: The day we found out she was a girl!
Because I know my memory will one day fail me, I am so glad that I chose to do this. There is an entry for the first time I felt her kick, the day we found out we were having a little girl, the first time I got morning sickness, the day we chose her name, my cravings, my prayers for her, and the list goes on.
Now. What do I do with them? Do I store them in something in her baby book? Do I have a separate album where they are stored as photos that she can flip through? Do I just stash them in an envelope and give them to her free hand one day? Ideas welcome.
She has no idea how much I love her.
Until Next Time,
The Guff
You make me cry. I think you're great.
ReplyDeleteIf you could laminate them and then make a really cute box to have them put into it would be super cute!
ReplyDeleteHave them bound into a book. It wouldn't cost much and then she could keep them forever. ---Karen Jackson
ReplyDeletehow wonderful! i love it! i think you should have them laminated and punch one or two wholes in them and tie them with some hemp, it's cheap it will last and it's kinda earthy, just like you, i mean that in the best way possible :) ya know with your cloth diapers and all :)
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