My First Child…

I have never posted before on the site itself; mostly because I my first child wasn’t born yet

So I proudly announce the birth of my first daughter Lucy

 Born: 21 Jan, 2010 @ 5:20am AKT; 7lbs 5.5oz, 20.5 inches

We had several names picked out but when she was born, she had her eyes WIDE open! (St. Lucy is the patron saint of eyes.) But the meaning is a little more than that. You see, Lucy comes from the Latin word for ‘light’ or ‘daylight.’ She was born in the dark of an Alaskan winter morning. The morning after my father passed away. He had been sick for sometime and my mom called me the morning of the 20th to let me know things did not look good. Obviously we could not fly home. Later that evening, I was about to pick up the phone to call my parents to let them know that my wife had started having contractions and gone into full labor. As I went to grab my phone, it rang. My mom informed me that my dad had died. It hit me like a ton of bricks obviously, but when I looked at the clock I realized that it was around 11:00pm down in Michigan. He knew… he didn’t wan’t to “ruin” our special day. That is just how he was. So I cried for a bit, my sister and my wife’s sister were here, and we took an hour to just grieve. But then as I know he would have wanted, I focused on my wife. 10 hours later our daughter was born.

So you see, Lucy is our lightness in the dark. They say the darkest part of a night is the time just before the dawn, and since that is when Lucy was born, we realized that even in such heartache God gave us something to soothe our pain, and focus our love. Marian is my moms middle name, and I know that my dad would have appreciated that gesture. We knew we wanted a Marian name due to our families devotion to Our Blessed Mother so the name fit all too nicely.

So I guess that I can now more properly post on here… as I am now fully in the “Dad’s Club.”

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