Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Beauty
Having Ruby has taught me a lesson on what is truly beautiful.I'm ashamed to say that one evening after we had come home from visiting Ruby in the NICU I was very depressed and upset that I would not be bringing home the baby I thought I would have ,the nurses in the NICU had given my smaller children a picture of Ruby they had taken because my little ones couldn't go in to see their baby sister.The picture was pretty bad,it was too close up and poor little Ruby had the oxygen cannula in her nose,which made her nose look even flatter, and her little tongue was sticking out .My little ones were thrilled with the picture though and put it up on the side of our refrigerator.I saw it and thought I don't want an ugly baby! Oh,how very wrong I was! My little Ruby is so beautiful! I can see how much beauty our special children have.Their beautiful eyes,wonderful smiles and their true beauty just emanating from them! I'm so glad to have my Ruby,otherwise I might have missed all the beauty around me. I never realized how many people with Ds live near me.Every time I have gone to the store lately I have seen some beautiful person with Ds.I never saw them there before but now I do and I'm so glad.
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A while back I had a Women approach me on myspace. She had just given birth to a baby girl that had DS. She wanted to tell me she loved a Montage I had made and how Gorgeous she thought Tristan was. She then said "I hope one day my daughter will be cute like your son" Broke my heart I even cried. I of course explained to her it was normal to feel that way in the beginning but one day her daughter would in fact be even cuter than Tristan. Well in her eyes anyway cause all Mommies believe their children are the cutest :) She contacted me 6 months later to let me know that I was correct LOL
If you want to see the montage here is the link. It was made 2 years ago I think I am overdue to make a new one.
http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=218e7e89cad2238b296929&skin_id=601&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url
Ruby is Beautiful! We are very lucky! Blessings, Beverly
I agree that our children teach us the definition of real beauty. We get so caught up on outer beauty that we tend to miss the inner beauty of a person. Not to say that John is an ugly baby but his physical characteristics are different than most kids and that is something that I have to face. But once you get to know him, then you understand that he is more similar to other kids than people perceive. I am sure that you guys have learned the same with Ruby. Thanks to John, I hope to never look at people in the same way as I once did.
Ruby IS beautiful! I recently posted a blog about how when Samantha was born, two words I never thought I'd hear used to describe my daughter were "beautiful" or "smart", and I know now how wrong I was. Our children are beautiful, and they work so hard to accomplish so much! The transition process is a long one, but you'll learn so much on your journey!
Our definition of Beauty is redefined by the birth of our children. I had worries before Sydney was born that just went away when I fell in love with her. I too had that same picture from the NICU with the canulas.. too close, etc. I wrote my story on the side of my blog under a mother's perspective if you want to see the raw things that I went through. One of which was seeing all of the faces AFTER Sydney was born that I never saw before she was in my life. Now I am blessed to see them! My eyes were opened and I thank God that they were. Your Ruby is beautiful! BTW, the picture on the side of your blog with her brother (I assume) under the play arch... looks EXACTLY like one I took of my Syd and her big brother. LOL!
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