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Love Song --My Daughter is 10 Today!
I wrote this with a few alterations last year. But since I know people are actually reading my blog now--thank you!!!-- and because I like it so much, I'm reprinting it. It's probably one of the sappier things I've ever written, but motherhood can make saps of us all at times.One of the reasons we have kids, I guess.......
February 8, 1995, I was in labor with our first daughter. I had had an induced labor for 10 hours, I had been pushing for two more, and still nothing--no progress.
Around midnight,the doctors decided I needed a Caesarean. It was almost midnight, I was exhausted and SCARED.
And then, as they were getting me ready for surgery, the Man did something he had never done before.
He held my hand and SANG to me.
It was a Harry Chapin tune we both love called "I Want to Sing A Love Song". If you want to hear Harry singing it,go to: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002H5H/qid=1076785193/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-5500455-8926461 and you'll hear a sample. But no one could have sung it better just then than the Man, singing it for me.
At 1:07 AM on February 9, 1995, our daughter SC was born. She was fine, she'd just had an unusually short umbilical cord, and couldn't get out!
They took her to clean her up while they finished working on me, and the Man went with her.
And when I came out into recovery the first thing I saw was him--holding her in his arms as if he'd been doing it forever.
She's 10 today, grown so tall she's up to my shoulders. And she has her father's smile, the smile that I've never been able to resist. And whenever I think of that night she was born I think of how he somehow knew just what to do when I needed it most. When I needed HIM most. At that moment, not at a picture perfect wedding, or some other carefully posed special occasion.
Though it was a special occasion, probably the most special of all, when you think about it!
Then, when I was sweaty, and disheveled and crying and not fun to look at, he was there for me. That's what it's all about, not the Hallmark sentiments and the fancy showy gifts. That's what love truly is for me.
And I know, that no matter how angry I get at him at times, no matter what happens, I will love him forever for that love song.
