No matter what you think you want from your life or when you expect it to happen, there are some things that take you by surprise and demand their own timeline and insist on happening, not according to your plan but JUST RIGHT NOW.
Our babies were like that, not even close to when we planned to have children, so why would we expect our granddaughter to be any more cooperative. Daisy didn’t arrive on anyone’s schedule but her own. Yet like some of the best gifts that life gives you, her arrival, surprise that it was, filled us with joy and laughter and hope for the future. All those wonderful gifts that babies have been bringing to the world since time began came with this little girl.
It is nice to be reminded tht there is nothing in the world so important that it can’t be set aside for a moment, or a month or a year, while you ignore everything but the chance to make tiny lips smile and tiny eyes crinkle and tiny lungs burst into giggles. When time slows down, in that old, ordinary way, Life can be extraordinary.
Since we are not blessed to be in close range to our grandchildren I have become particularly thankful for the little video clips I take of them when we're visiting. It happens at least once or twice during the week that we miss them so much I pull out the laptop and we watch the videos while we eat dinner and just laugh at their antics. You will continue to have all those joys as you watch Daisy grow up and not only will the ordinary things she does be extraordinary but you will see her as extraordinary too (which I'm pretty sure is how you fell about her already!).
I thought I'd be blessed with the old videos for when my kids were babies but the old camera we had had a limited life and the tapes are not easily copied so I haven't seen them in 15 years @olivetreeann
