Emotions; Part 2 – The Spohrs
When two very real, but different, life events happen on the same day how do you keep your emotions in check?
Part 1 can be found HERE.
After getting the news about sweet Layla Grace, and crying for what seemed like hours, I laid down to rest. I was beyond tired after a long week of work and life. I was in bed for about 45 minutes when I received a text from my friend Amy. The text said, “Have you checked Twitter? Heather Spohr is having her baby!!” The second line was enough to get me up and on-line.
For those of you that follow my blog, or my Twitter stream, you have likely heard of Heather, her husband Mike and their daughter Maddie. Heather’s pregnancy has been well documented on her blog and we, as a blogging/Twitter community, had been anticipating the event for 9 months.
I immediately logged on to Twitter to see this:
The news of baby Binky’s impending birth was enough to make me smile, A LOT! For the next hour or so I was glued to Twitter waiting to hear the news that so many of us had become so excited about. When finally there was this:
My heart was over joyed with the news.
I read that tweet over and over again with pride.
There were tears.
Tears of happiness.
Tears for Maddie.
Annabel Violet Spohr was born and the Internetz could not have been happier!
It’s always amazing to me how life can change from minute to minute, hour to hour. How in one day you can experience every emotion imaginable, and the next day you have to fight to set your emotions free. One hour my heart was shattered in to a million tiny pieces and the next it was back together again.
On Friday, January 22, 2010 one friend had a baby and another friend was given the most devastating news about her “baby”. I cried for both friends that day.
Emotions can be a tricky thing.
There are people out there that think emotions should be hidden from the world.
I think a world without emotions would be a hard world to live in.
You may not show emotion, but please don’t judge me for wearing mine on my sleeve.
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Joe @ IrrationalDad January 29th, 2010 at 5:48 am
My 18 month old is in love with Annabel. He asks for her “Ah-bow” all the time and wants to look at her pictures. It’s adorable.
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