The subject for today is my happiest moment so far.

I didn’t even have to think twice about this.  Without a doubt becoming a mother is the happiest moment so far.  I want to say I don’t think anything will ever surpass that happiness but they say becoming a grandmother is amazing too.

The happiness begins the moment you find out you are pregnant and you see that positive pregnancy test.  Then with each milestone it gets stronger and stronger…the first ultrasound where you see this alien looking thing and you are already in love, the the first time you hear the heartbeat, when you feel the first movement, when you find out the sex, when you see the first movement, when you go into labor.  All those milestones set you closer and closer in anticipation of meeting the being you created for the first time.

I’ll tell you I had horrible pregnancies, I gave a whole new definition to morning sickness.  Morning sickness on the world clock is what I had, it was morning somewhere haha.  Then when you go into labor it’s not all butterflies and flowers and rainbows.  After all that though the minute they lay your babies on your chest You forget everything else leading to that point.  It is the most euphoric feeling to have that skin to skin contact for the first time.  You experience a love you have never felt.  The bond you started with your baby in utero has become reality.  You lay there staring at the tiny toes, the tiny fingers, the soft skin…you can stare for hours in amazement and that moment for me is definitely my happiest moment…