Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Last night

Maureen Elizabeth was born at 9:42pm, weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces, measuring 17.5 inches long. We are all healthy, sleepy, and ecstatically happy.

"i carry your heart with me"
by e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

6 comments:

Rebecca & Ernest said...

Congratulations! And welcome to Maureen Elizabeth! I hope you are feeling ok and I hope you are all enjoying getting to know the little one. We can't wait to meet her! Sending much love! xx

Diana said...

Congratulations!

Anonymous said...

yay! congrats :) here's to settling, bonding, and much cuddling.

Anonymous said...

Yay! So happy for you!! Congrats! See, I knew you were having a girl! :)

old dog said...

beautiful poem for the new family

Mo said...

Yay!
I had mine about 30 hours later!
*internet high five*
We rock!