Coming up to Christmas
So many things crowding my mind as we come up to Christmas this year. This little baby has joined our ever growing family, older daughter's second child, long awaited and much loved. And within weeks there will be more babies, with daughter in law and younger daughter both due very soon after Christmas. It is a total delight to have more babies coming into the world but I want to be everywhere at once, sharing the time with everyone, making sure everyone is ok. This is daft, I recognise, as my presence won't make anyone any more ok but I have found before when babies are due that there is a part of me which doesn't settle until everything is done and I know everyone is ok and that I feel a powerful urge to see, in the flesh, to be there myself to assure myself that everyone is fine. How lovely it will be to have these cousins growing up so close in age and as part of the burgeoning family of cousins. It is hard to express how very blessed I feel. ...