Belated Happy Birthday, Lisa!

Last evening I wanted to write some memories of the day Lisa was born, but Blogger.com wouldn't let me on.

So here goes. Lisa has heard all this so many times, she'll probably yawn! Anyway, Dick and I played Scrabble AGAIN the evening before. I was 2 weeks overdue and SO TIRED of waiting. I began to wonder if women really and truly do go into labor. At 11:30 p.m. I turned our bedroom light off, and at that exact moment my water broke with a great gush! For an entire hour I didn't have any contractions, and I was so afraid I still wasn't going to go into labor. I packed Dick's lunch for the next day, showered, shaved my legs, probably did my hair and make-up, did last minute packing, and finally had a contraction at 12:30. Sometime during the night we went to the Osteopathic hospital in Lancaster and Lisa was born at 5:34 a.m. She was beautiful with a head of black hair and little slanted eyes, which I came to realize were a Stauffer baby trademark. They brought us a phone and we called our parents from the delivery room. At 7:00 a.m. Dick kissed me goodby and went to work! It's a good thing I had his lunch packed!!

I'll never forget the first time they brought her to me and left me alone with her. It was like having this little live doll that was all mine. I told her that I was her mommy and that Daddy was at work and that her name was Lisa Joy. When I nursed her she fell asleep and I thought I must already be a good mother. I didn't realze that newborns sleep most of the time! It's just unbelievable that that was 32 years ago. I remember it so vividly. I almost wish I could be back there again, especially to the 98 lbs. that I weighed four days after she was born!!!

We're having cold, windy weather these two days. It was ushered in on Tuesday evening with a strong thunderstorm. This month has been the most unusual January I can ever remember. We've had unusually high temperatures, extreme wind, extreme cold here and there, and a thunderstorm! At least it doesn't get boring, and thank God, there haven't been snowy, icy roads to drive on.