Mommy's Sweetie

Goes Without Saying

The First Two Months

The fullness of my life in the last two months has resulted in much emptiness on my blog, but this post is offered in hopes of that changing!  How do you describe the life-changing event of welcoming a child into the world?  I guess it's largely impossible, but here's my attempt at trying.

This is a love letter to my little Ellie Beth, complete with pictures from the first two months.  And here's hope for more posts in the near future!

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Eliana Beth

My sweet daughter made her way into the world May 2, 2012 at 6:40pm. We are so blessed by her little life.

Trust

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh the joys of those who trust the Lord! Psalm 40:4

What is saving belief if it isn't the radical dare to wholly trust? - Anne Voskamp

In Hope of a Harvest

Things I Wanted You to Know...

Dear Little One,

I am getting quite excited to see your little hands and feet and face so soon! Right now I can only feel them bumping into my ribs and side! I am excited to hold you too, although I feel like I am holding you very closely now. Sometimes it even feels like I am holding your hands and feet because you stick them so far out of their normal boundaries, right into my hands that rest on my big belly.

I want you to know that both your dad and I are so happy that you exist, that your life has graced our lives and that we get to be a family, all three of us together. You are loved, you are beautiful and you are very wanted and treasured.

Since I wrote you last, we got to see more pictures of you on the ultrasound. We saw that you already have hair and perfect little toes and fingers. You are being formed so perfectly and all the intricate details of your being are fashioned in the secret place to make you just exactly the unique person that God designed for you to be.

I like to call you by your name more and more now. Your name, Eliana Beth, holds a lot of special meaning. We named you Eliana after two very important people, Eli and Anna. Eli was a Jewish priest who lived many thousands of years ago. He comforted a crying barren woman named Hannah and told her that God would answer her prayers and give her a child. Anna was a Jewish prophetess who also lived a long time ago. She waited her whole life long to see the Messiah baby. Both Eli and Anna knew that God keeps his promises, even if we have to wait a very long time. That is why your name means, "God has answered our prayers." That is also how your dad and I feel about you. Your dad and I waited a long time before we got married, hoping that in patient waiting, God's plan for our lives would bring us together. God did answer our prayers and you are the first tangible fruit of our love.

You are very treasured,

Mom