Blessed

Posted on January 29, 2006
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What a super great time I had last night!

For a fleeting moment I thought my babysitter was not going to turn up on time, but to her credit she came through for me (with a few minutes to spare even) and the girls didn’t even notices that I had left… to busy reading with ‘Aunty Sarbah!”

So armed with my pinwheels, my bead and a giant zucchini (for Belinda, not Laura!) of I went. Swung past Kate’s (BubbaJ Kate!) and told her I’d drive so she could drink, cleaned the stale sultanas out of one of the girls seats, strapped Emma in, said goodbye to a sad Jack and his Dadda and we were off!!!

I won’t bore you all with the details since you can read them on Leah or Laura’s blogs, but I will restate what a great time we had.

It all just felt so right. Good friends all together sharing something wonderful! Laura just glowed the whole night. I was all goosebumpy when we shared the reading of her blessing, especially when I saw the baby seemingly doing somersaults in her belly as we all read! The Henna was just SUPER cool… and I loved sitting and chatting with everyone while getting to play and create the affirmation flags.

I love that this seems to be a tradition that we’ll all definitely continue with and share with each other. Tradition is not something that I would ever have thought I’d feel was important. And tradition in the sense of old stuff that people do ‘just because’ is definitely not me… but now that we have a family it suddenly seems very important to me to create traditions, fun, happy, enjoyable traditions. I want to pass on little bits of myself and my family and what is important to us…. and I LOVE that I am part of an amazing circle of women to share this amazing process with.

Ofcourse I lay in bed when I got home and my head was spinning with thoughts!
‘Maybe we should have another baby, I want to have a blessingway too!’
Which almost made me giggle out loud, because wanting a blessingway is the perfect reason to have a baby hey!?! The I decided I didn’t care who had the baby I just wanted to be part of that again….

I am also busting with photos… put the girls to bed early so I could download them off the camera and put them up on photobucket for Laura to see…. but I am going to let Laura have the pleasure of posting them somewhere first.. afterall it is her gorgeous belly and baby, all hennaed and glittery to share!

Ahh it all just makes me smile.

Thank you to all my wonderful friends and especially to Laura for allowing me to be part of something so special!

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4 Responses to “Blessed”

HipbubbyMama on January 29th, 2006 11:51 pm

“Ofcourse I lay in bed when I got home and my head was spinning with thoughts!
‘Maybe we should have another baby, I want to have a blessingway too!’
Which almost made me giggle out loud, because wanting a blessingway is the perfect reason to have a baby hey!?! The I decided I didn’t care who had the baby I just wanted to be part of that again…”

I know, I was thinking the same thing! I wish I’d had a blessingway like that, and not sure if I will have any more babies, so may never have the chance to experience one. (I’m not sure if wanting to be preg again, or to bf again is a good enough reason to have another baby-not that those are my only reasons, but I wonder sometimes cos I do have 2 beautiful kids & a boy & a girl & that could be enough..rambling blah..) I like Kate (Bubbaj Kate lol) idea of retrospective Blessingways-maybe we ought to organise a big one for those of us who didnt get one first or second time around?! :)
katef on January 30th, 2006 12:48 am

Oh Jayne YES YES YES! Lets plan a blessingway festival for all the mammas and babies who never got to have one!!!! That is an awesome idea!!!
HipbubbyMama on January 30th, 2006 12:22 pm

Yeah! I agree it really would be cool. I reckon we call a planing meeting, or at the least an msn or AB chatroom conference ;) :)
loz on January 30th, 2006 11:00 pm

I love that idea that sounds absolutely brillant… The funny thing is I went to bed and lay awake thinking OMG I can’t believe that not even 3 years ago i had a baby shower for Elijah and a friend helped me organise it but most of it was up to me to do and honestly while those closest to me at the time were there it certainly wasn’t anything like the other night and I know exactly what i would love to have over and over again and that was the other night in case anyone thought otherwise haha I could even think about going back for a 3rd time if it meant having another blessingway and I haven’t even got past the 2nd birth and newborn period :D