My daughter is expecting her first child, today she expressed her dissapointment at me deactivating my facebook account at a time in her life she is documenting the single most important thing that will ever happen to her, she will be the creator of something she's been waiting for her whole life - birth and motherhood, I started thinking about the days before internet and facebook not too long ago and how we communicated our excitement and documented the life in the birth of a child, how we took pictures and videos and spent time with family and friends, we talked on the phone and mostly spent time planning the life we carried, we sang to our growing bellies we talked and listened to the noises and felt the child growing and moving, we didn't much worry we were too busy being overjoyed and in awe of what was happening to the life inside of us, we still tell stories about the days of glory and I wonder what it would have been like if I had fb to deliver my news, I may have to open the fb door for a little while, dear daughter I am always close by for you
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