New Friends

Today will be random...lol I was just playing my usual game apps on Facebook and ran across a recipe for "Make Your Own Cadbury Eggs" ...so I clicked on the link and it brought me to another blogger here =) Hope she don't mind but I have decided to follow her. I have a collection of cookbooks and LOVE to cook when there are people who LOVE to eat. When I was in High School I went to Area and District with cooking with VICA. I have always had a passion for cooking and worked best (I think) when I was working in the Food Service Business. I am now in the Medical Field (and love it)..but sometimes I just pull out the ole cookbook and make for fun. I got my Love of cooking from my grandmother I think. My mama and her mama could cook,, but if they didn't have to...I think they never would have, but my daddy's mama Loved to cook up a table full. I sure do miss her. She passed away in February 2009 but she left me her cookbooks and I feel Honored. My mama is still with us as to date, but she cannot cook anymore due to arthiritis in her hands, but she would if she could I'm sure. I wish my mama could still do the things she used to do. I am used to a mama that randomly got up and just went anywhere she wanted to go...she will go now, but we have to beg her to go...so sad how Life treats us sometimes. My daddy passed away on Sunday, September 5, 2010 and I know she misses him more than anything..wish for all our sakes he could come back even for just one more day. He was my Best Friend and ALWAYS will be...Life will NEVER be the same without him. Anyways...I want to follow Kristin because she has some interesting ideas and looks like she would be Fun to follow...so come follow her too =)

My Daughter's Name

I was already in my 2nd Trimester when I was told I was pregnant. After being told so many times thru the years that I would never have children...it was both Special and Scary at the same time, because I had always tried to stay away from people who had children. I wanted a child so bad of my own that I missed the joy of all the other children in my Life. I have a God daughter and two step-children that I loved like I do my daughter but it just wasn't the same. I had to ask if I wanted to do anything for them or with them..and a mommy should not have to do that. I had "Caleb Benjamin" for a boy picked out and "Kaitlan McKenzie" chosen my a lil girl, but one night I had a very strange dream that awoke me...it was a sweet dream...but strange. In a beautiful field probably about the beginning of fall I saw a pretty lil blonde headed girl walking in the field and I could hear a woman calling her....Alayna....Alayna. I tried and tried to see who the child was in my dream but never got a good look at her face other than when she turned to the side to look at me...with a beautiful blue eye. Jill (my daughter's God mother) was at work that night at Evans Memorial Hospital and so I got up and got the phone to call her to ask her the name meaning...they had a huge name book there...lol and I could not find mine at 2:30am. When she looked up the name she told me it was the female version of Alan and that it ment "Sent from above". I was two weeks away from them attempting to tell me what I would be having so I wrote the name down and everyday the dream came to mind...but at the time I was just sure I was going to have a boy. My husband worked out of state during the week and was home most weekends..so when he came home that weekend I told him that if just by chance we had a girl that I had changed my mind on the girl name...lol a woman's decision changes without warning...lol all men should know that. I told him the dream and how it had stayed with me all week and that I was sure it was a sign that God was telling me to turn loose of my stepson who had passed away at the age of 10 from Cystic Fibrosis on December 22, 1998. His name was "Joshua Alan". I told my husband to please give it thought and if he liked the name that he could choose the middle name. He chose the name Danielle (old gf lol) and I loved it with Alayna but I wanted my daughter's name to be unique..so I chose the spelling of Alannah instead of Alayna. My grandmother (my mom's mama) passed away 5 weeks after my stepson on January 30, 1999. I remember thinking I was just going to die myself at that time..so many ppl I cherished and loved were dying and I didn't want to be here anymore. My grandmother's name was "Lois Ann" and if you break my daughter's name down..you will see "Alan" and "Ann" in her name with a twist to make it her own :) On March 6, 2003 I was told I was having a baby girl and from that day forward I have called her Alannah...and believe it or not...she is blonde headed and blue eyed....Truly a baby girl sent to me from "Heaven". (The Child of my Dreams) My Nanny used to tell me before I got married and after because I had no children of my own that one day God would call me home and let me keep the nursery in heaven...Thank you Nanny for giving me Hope until God gave me this precious child I have today called Alannah. I Love you and Josh and miss you both so much. My dream has come True :) She is my LiL Princess!!!

My LiL Angel

2 days old

Alannah Danielle

age 16 months old

Baby Miss Glennville 2005

Alannah

Age 18 months old

Alannah Danielle
age 8
March 2012
Photo taken from my memory of the dream to
which I named her :)

The Day My Life Changed~August 10, 2003

On August 6, 2003 (which was my due date) I went to see my Dr and was told that I was ONLY 1cm and that if I did not go into Labor before the following week that they would induce me on August 13, 2003. My Daddy's Birthday is August 8th and so is Alannah's paternal Grandfather's Birthday...I so wanted to have her either on the 7th (mine and her daddy's 10th wedding anniversary) or the the 8th to give her grandfathers a Special Gift...HER. Alannah is my ONLY Biological Daughter and I had waited along time to be a mommy. I awoke on Friday, August 8, 2003 vomitting and not feeling well, but waited until later that afternoon to go to the hospital to see what was going on. I had had a Wonderful Pregnancy and loved being pregnant with this precious child, but I was so ready to meet her and hold her. Tonda, my Goddaughter took me to a local Emergency room to see a Dr, because I was to deliver my baby in Savannah and was not sure if I was in labor or had a virus. They hooked me up to the monitors and I was having contracts but they were not regular and I could not feel them. The Dr kept me there until about 10:30 that night, because my husband was on his way home from working out of state (Alabama) and I needed to be picked up. I could not get behind the wheel of a vehicle my tummy was way to big lol. They said I had a virus. I signed the discharge papers once my mama and husband arrived and was getting up to leave when my water broke...lol man oh man...that was alot of water. I called the nurse back in but she said I had just "wet" the bed, but time was going to say different. Around 2:30am on August 9, 2003 I went to hurting with pains like I have never felt before. We had no home phone at the time so I woke my husband up and had him run next door to call 911. The ambulance arrived and the EMTs told me I was in active labor and that they would have to take me back to that local hospital that told me I "wet" the bed....oh no you are not I told them lol. So I had my husband call my best friend and coach "Jill" ( she was a labor and delivery nurse at the time) and because she thought I had a virus she said she would be at my house in the morning....so I had my husband call my mama..lol no one answered at my parents house....so he came back and and tried to console me cause I was not going no where without my mama and Jill. I got in the shower to try and ease the pains..to no avail did it come. Brandy and Harvey Beecher lived two doors down and he worked as an EMT at the time. Around 9:00am he came down to see how I was and seen I was in labor and started timing my contractions...lol thought I was going to have my baby right there at home waiting on my mama and Jill. My contractions were 4 minutes apart when they were regular. Finally, about 9:45am my mama came and Harvey told my mama that I need to go since we had to drive about 72 miles to the hospital.  So my husband got everything loaded in mama's Explorer and here we go...lol I had told her if she sped I would get out and walk, but Lord knows that pain will make you say and do otherwise. She got me to Memorial University in Savannah, GA around 11:10am, August 9, 2003 after running 70 down Hwy 144 through Ft. Stewart, Ga. I promise if an MP had stopped her I would have probably tried to kill him lol.  The nurse came out with a wheelchair to get me and once in a room I was told no eppi could be giving at that time because they were in with another laboring mama so they gave me a shot of Stadol and Phenergan. That was enough to ease the contractions and I felt I did not need an Eppi, but when they did come in I was dilated 6cm and told if I did not get it then that it would be to late very shortly, so I agreed to have  it done. Never again..my worst mistake..lol it slowed my contractions down!!! I was given the Eppi around 12:45pm and waited and waited and waited...around 11:15pm I was told I could start pushing. About Time!!! :) At 12:24am, August 10, 2003 the MOST Precious baby girl I had ever seen came into this World. Those present for her birth were her...Daddy, Mammaw, Aunt Jill, Uncle Roger, and Sissy Tonda. Jill and Roger Phillips are Alannah's God parents.

Alannah Danielle

August 10, 2003

5 minutes old

5 pounds 14 ounces

19 inches

The Love of My Life



From this Day Forward

Decided that I would start this blog to give my daughter (Alannah Danielle) something to read and be proud of. The Special moments we have shared together and with friends and family that are memorable and those to come. I should have started this along time ago...so I will post randomly from the beginning to now and the Future. ~Gena