Monday, September 22, 2008

It was an Honor

Here is a little poem, to honor our second adoption opportunity. This was a whirlwind because the baby arrived three weeks early, the very day we traveled interstate to meet the potential birth parents for the first time...... to decide together if we were a match.

Today we arrived home after it became clear that an adoption plan was not "in the works"......

It was an Honor

It was an honor baby girl
To meet you your first hour
To have your bundled warmth
Pressed against my chest

It was an honor baby girl
To hold your little head
To know the boney pieces
Were not yet fully set

It was an honor baby girl
To give you your first feed
To watch you start to suck
Not knowing when to breathe

It was an honor baby girl
To rub against your tiny feet
To try and keep you sucking
Until the bottle was more spent

It was an honor baby girl
To have my arms complain
To move you to my knees
Bundled twice your tiny frame

It was an honor baby girl

It was an honor sweet Jayden Addison

It was an honor

3 comments:

redhawks said...

So beautiful as always Lara...keeping you & Dennis in my prayers.
Jen

Colette said...

I just found your blog! I am coco1971 from the duckie board! I love the name of your blog...so cute! I am praying for you! Hugs and Blessings

Diva Maman said...

Lara -- I don't have your twitter, and am HOPING you've got notifications set up...do you have the address for the back-up board? We're hoping all's well, and have been thinking of you...

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