my best friend and his wife welcomed their son into the world today at 13:15 GMT, 8:15am my time. interestingly, i wrote an email at 8:32am my time asking after things. heh. just got the reply.
and a picture. now… i don’t know about you, and maybe it is a female thing, but to see a tiny human being, cosseted and comfortable and asleep… my heart… stars above, my heart contracted and i just cried for how perfect and beautiful he is.
my friend and his wife have been trying for a time to conceive and i remember the giddiness of him to tell me ‘they were pregnant’. the months of waiting and the intermittent first time parent scares and listening to names and guessing the gender (i was right) and then hearing it confirmed. savoring at distance the happiness of my friend and lending distraction as needed; laughing over the insomnia my friend sometimes experiences and telling him how he would soon regret missing that sleep.
i smile for new life. i smile for the thought of a happy, loving, warm family. but i think i smile most of all to know that my friend has the best of all things and is happy in it.