Into This World

Among all the beautiful children born into this world today is one very special to my heart.

Her name is Penelope Williams...Poppy for short and she is my brand new niece...her stats are 8 lbs. and 20 inches long. I don't have the exact birth time but it is irrelevant because she is finally here....we have been waiting a long time for her arrival. She is definitely her own person and was not going to let any doctor decide when she would be born.

Poppy knew just when she was supposed to arrive and she showed up in her own sweet time. That's the beauty of being a baby....people can't impose their time tables upon them....babies trust their own instincts. It's too bad we lose that along the way.


We can take a lesson from babies and children as a whole. I love to watch children. When they are learning to walk and they fall they don't consider it a failure....they just get up and try again...without beating themselves up for not being good enough. They just get up, make some minor adjustments and off they go again.


Babies don't eat for emotional reasons...they eat because they are hungry and when they are full, they stop.....they don't eat because they are nervous or stressed or bored or angry but because they are hungry.


Babies and small children trust themselves....and then we adults get in their way. I only pray that I can appreciate Poppy for exactly who she is and not try to change her.


To my brother and sister in law I send such love and happiness their way for the new addition to their lives.