A Tiny Miracle!

Funny how the universe works sometimes.  Exactly 4 days after my Mom was diagnosed, one of our best couple friends delivered their first baby.  Welcome baby Hailey!  May 8, 2011 this sweet and beautiful child was born.  It also just so happened to be Mothers Day.  How ironic.  

That morning my family and I went to the hospital to celebrate the day with Mom.  She didn't know this at the time, but I cried the whole day.  It was the first time my younger brother was seeing my Mom since she had been admitted, it was the first Mothers Day ever spent in a hospital.  It was only 4 days after Cancer was introduced to our lives.  Little did we know this was the first of many holidays that we would spend in the hospital. Little did we know that 3 months later, we would be sitting in an OR waiting room, praying that Mom survive a life threatening surgery.  Nonetheless, it was a great visit. Sick or not, Mom was Mom, smiling and reassuring us all that she was okay. 

Hailey and I, she was only 5 hours old!  

Towards the end of the visit we got the call!  Baby Hailey was born!  She was healthy and beautiful  and truly a miracle.  Looking back, it was such an emotional day.   Here I was celebrating my own amazing Mother, not knowing if it was going to be the last Mothers Day we would have together or not...and then hours later, I get to celebrate the most amazing gift one could ever receive.  After our most touching visit with 5 hour old Hailey, I felt uplifted, I felt hope for the future.  

Life is so unexpected sometimes...maybe even most of the time but when it seemed as if life was being taken away from us, another was given.  During the beginning of our darkest days, an angel was born.  Baby Hailey was our saving grace that day.  She won't know it until she is older, but she saved me in a way that day.  She gave me faith that it wasn't going to be last day I would celebrate Mothers Day with my Mom....she gave me something to celebrate when the times would get tough.  

For each of our own reasons, I think she gave us the will to fight even harder!  

Love to Hailey, her Mom and Dad, and of course Mom.  I can't wait to celebrate Mothers Day this year with each and every one of you!!!