Reflections from a New Grandmother

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Comment by Joy Cobb on February 1, 2012 at 2:45pm

Here is to the collest grandmother of all time!!!! So excited for you!!

Comment by Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith on January 27, 2012 at 9:52pm

I'm delighted for you, and your family, Rev. Dr. Linda, and for us all. Welcome, Ada!

Comment by Jacomina de Regt on January 26, 2012 at 10:01pm

What a lovely dream.. the baby singing songs to those who welcome her..

Congratulations to all of you.. all four generations on both sides, what a gift...

I wonder what my birth song would have been?  I wonder whether we can imagine it with hindsight?  What a wonderful ingathering question that would be for a covenantal group

Comment by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles on January 26, 2012 at 1:54pm

Baby Ada is five days old.  Last night I had an amazing dream, in which she was singing songs to all of us who had come to welcome her!  We were thrilled and awed!   It reminded me of an old African tradition that believes that the song a child hears when she is born, and welcomed into this world, stays with her all her life. 

    What songs do you sing to the babies in your life?  I think the first song I sang to Ada earlier this week was:

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,

you make me happy when skies are gray.

You'll never know, dear, how much I love you!

Please don't take my sunshine away!"

Comment by Barbara Johnson on January 25, 2012 at 9:09am

Congratulations Linda! My son was born at home with Birthcare midwife Marcia Jackson, on a very hot day in July. Lovely image of snow greeting baby Ada. I'm glad you could be there. 

Comment by Sue Browning on January 24, 2012 at 5:29pm

Congratulations Grandma Linda! Best to all. (My paternal grandmother's name was Ada.)

     

Comment by Chantel Aberdeen on January 24, 2012 at 3:17pm

Congratulations on your precious Ada, Rev. Linda!