New Post and New Baby

                Well readers, it has been a while. I apologize for my absence. My only explanation is that I have been dealing with life and have been unable, for a few reasons, to write. Now, however, I am going to try and write as often as I can. To start, I am going to take you through everything you have missed. A great deal has happened in such a short time that I will be unable to put it all into one post. I suppose I could try, but by splitting it all up I can elaborate and share the ups and downs with you. I have decided to work backwards time wise, though it may seem as though working forward in the cycle of life. Thus I will start with birth and end with death. Now let me tell you about Jackson Thomas. 

                This past week, I had one very good day. In that day I received a new pair of shoes, celebrated an important birthday (which will get its own post next time), and had a new member born into my family. Now why, you may ask, is that so important? People are born every day, and at my age one would assume it was a cousin, niece/nephew, or even a child of my own. Well, I can certainly guarantee that there will be no babies for me in the near future. And my sister is way too young to have a child. Thus I do not have a new niece/nephew. I also did not gain a cousin or anything else in my extended family. While I do absolutely adore my baby cousins, they are not the baby in the limelight. No, this post is for a baby in my immediate family: my little brother.

                I am happy to report that I now have a positively beautiful baby brother. I have always been Daddy’s little girl and have been his only child thus far. Yet in the past few years, he has been seeing a lovely woman on and off. Well, they recently moved south to start their own life together. They have gotten engaged and over the summer learned they were expecting a baby of their own. This would be her first child and his second. And I must say that they were both overjoyed with the news, as was everybody else in the family. I will admit that at first it was a bit of a shock. I am in my mid twenties and so to have a new sibling seemed a bit odd at first. After some time, though not too much, I became more and more excited. I could also tell how happy it made my father and his fiancé which made me happy as well. The last time I saw her was over the holidays. She was big as a house, which is not an easy feat for such a small woman. It may be a cliché, but she really was glowing. The two of them were eager for the arrival of their little bundle. It was partly to get the baby out of the belly, and mostly because they wanted to meet him. And while I know that my father would have been happy with a boy or a girl, we all know that he was extremely excited to have a boy. After all these years he was finally going to have a son. I should add that I was once told that I was supposed to be a boy and was even going to be a junior. Thus, I know he was happy to finally get a boy. Whatever the baby came out though, we would all love it; as can be seen by the explosion of love they have gotten.

                My little brother, named Jackson Thomas, was born after hours of labor. I do not know the details, nor would I like to if I’m being completely honest.  All that is important, all that anybody knows, is in the evening, a little boy was born. He was of average weight and average length, but he was loved beyond measure. There were many family members on both sides anxiously awaiting word of his birth. And once we knew he was here, everybody wanted pictures. Now, he is all over the internet because none of us could contain our joy. We wanted to share this beautiful little baby. Personally, I have been going crazy all week. The reason? I just want to meet the little baby!! Unfortunately, I live too far away for that to be possible at the moment; hence this long post. I just want to share my joy with the world, or at least the part of the world that reads my blog. This baby, though he has not met most of his family, is so abundantly loved.  So I am so excited that he is here, and I cannot wait to meet him! I am going to share some pictures so you can see for yourself how adorable he really is. Enjoy and stay tuned.