Little Lucia: Hope INDEED!

our beautiful angel

Happy 2013! Jason, Lubird and I had a wonderful family filled blessed Christmas and rang in the new year with friends and our kids. I have missed my Lucia so much in the past week because I was one of many to catch the cold/flu bug that has been going around. I am so used to kissing my sweet Lu all day long, taking baths together, putting her hands on my face, cuddling together every morning in bed and we have not done that for a whole week (so nervous I'll get her sick) and it has been TORTURE! But other than that it was a wonderful, love filled White Christmas and beginning of a New Year!

Christmas and Lu's fabulous fancy dress from her nanni

Since having Lucia, I have mostly felt that time has not flown by..but now that she's 20 months, close to 2 years old, had her 2nd Christmas, has a mouth full of little sweet teeth, a head full of hair, I will say that the time is going faster. She is getting bigger, almost 26lbs, and as I've told Jason, keep increasing your weights at the gym, because we need to stay strong for our bird! Thinking back at her first year, things seem so much different. The first year of Little Lu's life was slow, but also a bit of a blur at times, and full of so many emotions. Although she is still small I think we know our Lucia so much more. I feel much more aware of the person she is and will become. Last year at this time our calendar was full of Dr visits, and tests, and many scary unknowns. This year, I take each day as it comes and don't have any immediate worries of outcomes. Little Lu, our Beautiful Light, has a path, a journey that is so different and so special than any I ever dreamed and I know, as Jason said, that God has a plan. I want to continue to open doors, and to push our Lucia up her path with my whole heart and soul, but I feel more confident, more grounded, lighter than I did last year. She has shown us her sweet, inspiring, spirit and Jason and I are here to water and carry her as much as SHE wishes. I have fallen in love with our girl named Lu over and over again, she has made me have a deeper love for my husband as I see the daddy he has become, and she has spread her wings around us to show the world as a brighter place.

daddy and his daughter

I'm so excited to continue this journey with our Lu, with my husband, and her new brother or sister in the upcoming year. I pray for her happiness, her laughter, her strength, her health, and her love. As I logged on to Lu's blog tonight there was a message, it read:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Your blog gives me hope, our son was diagnosed on October 16 with PKS while I was 33 weeks Pregnant . We are just beginning our journey . Is there any way I could email you some questions I have. Thank-you ...

The message brought back a tidal wave of emotions. I pray for Lucia's friends and for families that are just beginning their journey of having a child born with PKS. We are so thankful for our family, our friends and our network of PKS Kids families, as they too have shown us, there is hope INDEED and a love that was never imagined has been born. Thank you for messaging us, we CAN'T WAIT to get to know you and your special son!