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[the_rck]

Fourteen years ago today, Scott and I went to the hospital three weeks earlier than we'd expected to, and Cordelia was born. It was a short labor (fortunately for me!), and she was born about 6:15 p.m. I mostly remember that I thought it was important, right away, to tell her the names of every single person I could think of who loved her already.

I won't say that every instant over the years has been joy and bliss, but I do feel profoundly blessed to have her in my life. Scott and I both do our best to make sure that she never doubts that she's loved and accepted.

Anyway, fourteen years. It doesn't seem like anything near that long, but it's indisputable. 2017 minus 2003...

We won't be celebrating today because Cordelia's got a big school project that's due Friday and is really eating up her time. She’s supposed to make a twenty page picture book with a minimum of one sentence a page about the history of the US, hitting certain points, and, in it, identify the part of speech of every single word she uses. She's also supposed to label independent and dependent clauses and write in whether each sentence is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or whatever that fourth category is. (Hers are, not surprisingly, all declarative.) I think that all that's left is the twenty illustrations, but those are likely to take a while.

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[alexseanchai]

The internet wishes her a happy birthday whenever it's convenient to celebrate :)

[the_rck]

Thank you.

[malkingrey]

She's also supposed to label independent and dependent clauses and write in whether each sentence is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or whatever that fourth category is.

Exclamatory, I think.

[the_rck]

That sounds right. Thanks.

[lunabee34]

Happy birthday to Cordelia! It goes by so fast.

[syderia]

Happy birthday to her!

That project seems to have a lot of moving parts.

[the_rck]

It really does. As far as I can tell, they only got the assignment last week.

[conuly]

My goodness, she's almost exactly Ana's age! Happy birthday to her :)

[dancingdragon3]

(Belated) Congrats on the anniversary of giving birth!

I mostly remember that I thought it was important, right away, to tell her the names of every single person I could think of who loved her already.

That is so lovely :-)

[the_rck]

I feel very strongly that choosing to have a child is a promise to that child that one is going to do the best one can to be sure they're taken care of and have a safety net when it's time for them to start venturing out of the nest. We can't always keep those promises, but it shouldn't be for want of trying.

I mean, I'd recently had a shot of morphine (they assuming I wasn't as far along in labor as I was and gave me the shot because they were having trouble getting an IV established for any other sort of pain killer), so I was almost certainly high, but...

[scribblemoose]

I can't believe it's been that long. Happy birthday, Cordelia!