365 Days of Everything Georgia: the little things

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Just to Make You Smile.

>> November 3, 2013 – making me laugh, the little things

Here's my crazy girl.

That's her Halloween candy bucket on her head... if you couldn't tell.

Yep, that's my girl!

Hunting for Eggs

>> April 2, 2013 – fun, Holidays, spring, the little things

We had a great Easter weekend, and better yet, it was a three-day weekend for our family. (that rarely happens)

Friday was spent doing a lot of work building our vegetable garden - more to come on that later. So Saturday, we had some fun finding rainbow-colored eggs.

What made it even better, one of Georgia's favorite friends also made it out to this egg hunt - Mia.

And just look at this smile..

You know this girl found a lot of eggs - I'm pretty sure more than anyone else in her age group and maybe the entire group. She is an egg hunting machine!

With a basket full of chocolate, who could wait to get home to start eating? Certainly not my little one.

What a great way to spend part of our holiday weekend - making memories.

My Beautiful One

>> June 23, 2012 – life, making me laugh, outdoors, the little things

She makes me so happy... every, single day.

(and thank you, Grandma Hains, for this adorable dress!)

D-A-D Spells Our Annual Father's Day Gift!

>> June 21, 2012 – family, Holidays, the little things

There's one gift my hubby has received every Father's Day since he became a dad. Take a look at this year's gift:

Here's 2011:

And 2010:

One day, it will be great to look back at these from every year and see how much our little one has changed.

Cousins

>> June 11, 2012 – family, the little things, travel, vacations

Cousins are those childhood playmates who grow up to be forever friends. ~Anonymous

I had a few days off of work backed up to my weekend, so Georgia and I hopped in the car and headed to Georgia to visit my family. She doesn't get to see her cousins very often - only a few times a year - but it's like they never missed a day.

What was so interesting inside that wagon you might ask? Oh, a dead worm and some other goodies! :) At least they're not squeamish cousins.

And being around her cousins brings out the many faces of Georgia - my favorite being that big, ole smile.

And cousins together do silly things, like hide under empty pools...

and see how many goldfish they can fit in their mouths...

It just melts my heart to see them all together, and it makes me wish we lived right down the street.

Worth every mile and hour we drove to get here!

April 13, 2012 - Never Too Old to Watch Garbage

>> April 30, 2012 – making me laugh, the little things

Georgia has kind of re-discovered the garbage truck lately. All the sudden, when she hears it on Friday mornings, she gets excited and climbs on the back of the couch to peek out the window. Since that is really not allowed in our house, today, I opened the front door for her.

The little joys of childhood - even if it is garbage.

April 5, 2012 - The Pockets of a Toddler

>> April 5, 2012 – the little things

It's amazing what you can find inside here:

We had an unexpected cold snap today, enough so that we had to pull jackets out of the closets that haven't been used in at least a month.

Georgia's jacket pocket was full of little items.

She was pretty proud of all she had collected.

It's funny how as adults we will just pass by or discard a simple rock or shell or stick or piece of straw, but to a two-year-old, those things are magical and treasured.

April 1, 2012 - When You Let Her Dress Herself...

>> April 1, 2012 – making me laugh, the little things

... you just might get a little bit of Christmas in April.

She was very adamant about wearing her "Frosty" shirt this morning, and daddy couldn't argue with that!

Someone even told her "Merry Christmas" as we took a walk around downtown.

(we live in the town of bears - they're everywhere!

(counting the sides of the sidewalk hexagons)

(she talks in one end and daddy is at the other end - cute!)

And we'll end this post with our ladybug friend that decided Georgia made for a perfect landing spot.

I'm just glad Georgia did not smash her.

Georgia's Birth Story

The timing of Georgia's birth, in a way, came out of a journey to death. I'd like to think with every death comes new life, and for me, Georgia is that life. She is my saving grace and has kept me breathing when my lungs were screaming to stop, screaming to drown in my own self-pity.

My husband and I decided to try for Georgia just a few months after our walk down the aisle. You see, my mom had been diagnosed with incurable Ovarian Cancer, so I wanted a baby soon. I wanted a baby while there was still time to have my mother there as I brought a new being into the world, to see my mother hold her granddaughter, to ask my mom which of my baby features my daughter bore, to lean on my mother when I had those "new mom" questions and for so many other moments I had played out in my thoughts over and over again through the years.

My husband and I were thrilled to soon find out our little Georgia was growing inside of me, rounding out my belly day by day, pushing tiny feet into my sides, entertaining us with a neverending chorus of hiccups. We went to the doctor's appointments, the baby classes, took the hospital tour and had everything ready for the day we brought our darling home in Omaha, Nebraska.

It's funny though, life seems to fight our planning and always chooses its own course - and so it did. When my belly was just shy of 38 weeks round, the day came. After a 52-year-long life, which was as bright as they come, my mother faded away. She died on Sunday, October 11, 2009.

Early Monday morning, with my doctor's permission, my husband and I got on a plane to fly home to Georgia for my mom's funeral. We got off the plane in Atlanta around 3 p.m. Twelve hours later, at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, I was sleeping at my parents' house. As I lay in the home where my mom had been just days before, that journey toward life took a leap. My water broke and the contractions started coming within minutes. We were more than a thousand miles away from our doctor, our hospital and our house.

So off to the local hospital we went in the dark of night, my husband driving my mom's SUV and not having a clue where he was going. I had to give him directions between contractions. We arrived at the hospital and didn't even know what entrance to go to. We found locked doors twice before finding the right entrance, and yeah, I floundered up to both locked doors!

We checked in and by the time we got to a room, I turned around and there were my sister, brother and cousin in the room with my husband and I and my other sister and father were on the way. We had thought we'd be delivering in Omaha with just my husband and I and the calming classical CD's I'd burned. I guess my mom had other ideas.

So there we were, in the hospital where two years earlier they had cut cancer from my mother, in the hospital where my two nieces were born, in the hospital where my delivery nurse had also been my sister's bridesmaid - there surrounded by those who love me most and the memory of one who just couldn't stay long enough to make it. I delivered Georgia Katherine at 10:46 a.m. She weighed 7 lbs. and 8 ounces.

We left the hospital on Wednesday with a borrowed car seat, a bag full of borrowed baby clothes, a lot of flowers and hearts bursting with every emotion you can possibly imagine. We arrived at my parents' house to a borrowed crib, borrowed baby supplies and relatives arriving in town with funeral clothes and baby gifts packed in their suitcases. On Friday, my daughter and I looked down on my mother in her casket, and on Saturday we buried her. It's the only time my daughter every saw her grandmother.

My mother fought hard to live long enough to meet her granddaughter and in the end, she missed the date by two days. But life doesn't stop, and it's the beauty of my daughter's life that keeps me smiling. And oh how her life makes me smile. I like to believe whenever I'm holding my daughter and she's starring off into the distance, over my shoulder, that she's seeing my mom - a guardian angel for both of us - and that they are already the best of friends.

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Just to Make You Smile.

Hunting for Eggs

My Beautiful One

D-A-D Spells Our Annual Father's Day Gift!

Cousins

April 13, 2012 - Never Too Old to Watch Garbage

April 5, 2012 - The Pockets of a Toddler

April 1, 2012 - When You Let Her Dress Herself...

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