Happy Birthday, my Kevin

October 23, 1989. I spend hours doing what millions of women before and after me have done. I laboured. At 3:50 in the afternoon, he was born. A beautiful child, healthy and pink and looking nothing like the squalling, withered newborns you often see on film.

Fast forward to today. I'm suddenly the mother of an adult man and at a loss to explain where the time went. All I know is that I love him ... and I miss him ...

PS Thank you, Julia, for your support of the idea of this blog and your help in designing it. You are and always will be, my favorite daughter  :)