I used to love to write. Mostly poetry, mostly angst-filled. That was years ago - in my late teens and early 20s. Back when I had tunnel vision and no concept of much outside of my own self. I haven't written for pleasure really since then. Adulthood snuck up on me and life got busy as it does when youthful carefree days give way to responsibilities and seemingly endless work weeks. I went to PT school (that was hard), got married (that was easy!), bought our first home (that was a lapse in judgement), changed jobs (that was the best decision), and had a baby - THAT was the best day of my life! And since then has been the best 5 months, one week, and 4 days of my life.
My beautiful, perfect, precious, long-awaited for daughter, Juliette Rain Meadows came on November 10, 2010. She came out pink, robust, and screaming. Jeremy and I agree - the best sound we'd ever heard. I will do a post just on her birth story later. I wish I had begun this blog sooner, but hey, I was a little busy. :)
The title of this blog is from a song by Tori Amos called "Gold Dust". The whole lyric is "The day that she came, I'm freezing that frame.". I guess that's what I want this blog to do - freeze the frames of my life...as a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a sister. I want Juliette to have a chance to read all about how dearly she is loved and cherished, and she doesn't even really know it yet! I mean, I'm sure on some level she knows it. She is fed, kept clean, smiled at and talked to, and constantly cuddled and kissed - but she will know more and more as she grows, and hopefully she will want to read this one day and see how enamoured we've been from day one.
I hope that I will keep up with this blog. There are a couple of blogs that I'm following right now that have inspired me to start my own. I will post more about those inspirational ladies later.
Well, I'm going to stop here. I'm sitting in the back parking lot of a Holiday Inn Express using my breast pump, and I'm about finished. Sorry if TMI. :)
I plan to post more tonight and customize my page a bit too! Will probably be easier on my laptop than the iPhone.
Love,
Jenne
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