Days Gone By

Seems like a long time ago. Our first baby. Almost 30 years ago, in fact. And now, our little girl is having her first little girl. I'm leaving Wednesday for Princeton where I hopefully will be in time for the birth of Jen's baby. I've been looking at the old pictures and waxing nostalgic as I prepare to go. It's funny, but now, when I look back at myself, I think I looked like a child. And I guess we were. Bruce was 23 and I was 21. We didn't really know much about parenting. Well, I didn't, anyway. Bruce had 6 brothers and sisters and he really knew more about taking care of babies than I did. But I learned. The hardest thing for me was losing sleep. I mean I really like to sleep and until I accepted the fact that I just was going to have my sleep interrupted, I was really grumpy about it.

Jennifer taught me a lot. The best thing she taught me was that I was no longer the center of my universe. I now had someone who depended on me and needed me just to exist. That seemed to snap me out of it. And I needed to learn that lesson. Life is so much better when you realize that the world does not revolve around you.

So...I'll be traveling this week and hopefully welcoming my granddaughter into this world in the next few days. Rest assured that there will be a post with pictures as soon as possible. She's due tomorrow as a matter of record, but given the fact that both her mom and dad are rather stubborn, I'm sure she'll take her own sweet time to appear.

Please pray that labor and delivery will go well and for blessings on us all as we welcome the newest member of our family into God's beautiful world.