...a year.

June 20, 2009

And then in the blink of an eye she was here, and she had always been here.

...another day of mystery.

June 19, 2009

What can I say...this was the only picture that was taken that day.  I looked down and was still staring at this belly.  I had spent hours just staring at this belly... the rolling, stretching, sweeping movements of limbs, back and bum.  And as the sky darkened again on this day I realized that I would crawl into bed again with my babe comfortably on the inside.  I had managed to live timelessly all day...swaying, squatting, singing, laughing....but with the sun dropping low and the shadows turning into darkness I could no longer deny that another day had passed.  And I knew that as much as I was loving this sweet time of waiting and holding my life in this animated suspension, something would have to change soon...       

...a-n-t-i-c-i-p-a-t-i-o-n.

June 18, 2009

As I look around my house tonight I remember this warm evening sunlight pouring into my house that day.  My body, my belly and my heart filled with the imminence of each moment.  My bones and my cells easing into the memory of this dance...

...a belly full.

June 17, 2009

I was not to know that later that night the floodgates would burst open....