Better late than never!!

This post has been sitting in archive for ages. I'm awful like that... but anything I post about my immediate family members seems grossly understated and inadequate, they all mean so much to me! But all my inadequacies in putting thoughts to words aside, I think the world needs to know what a great family I truly have! As you know by now, my parents moved to Nevada, taking my badly needed mom with (I mean during my whole 'end of pregnancy'). Any lady who has had a baby or is having a baby probably can understand what an awful feeling it is to not have mom within a five minute driving distance away. It's terrible! My mom was so supportive in the ways available to her... calling and emailing important info, sending gifts and baby things by the barrel full (I swear!)... she's one of those rare beings who makes it her purpose in life to be the tangible angel. The "heaven send" that can't be happy unless doing something good... anyone who's ever met my mom knows what I'm talking about. And I tell ya, I grew up having no greater desire than to be just like her... unfortunately... (and I'm not admitting this out of modesty or anything) I am not.

But my sister Sarah is.



She and my mom made having Jakob possible. I really don't know what I would have done without them. Sarah filled the roll of role model long ago, but in my hour of need came through a hundred times over. Sarah was pregnant, and after giving birth, taking care of two little girls, while pampering my sorry bum through the whole process! She filled the role of mother when my mom's physical body wasn't available. She was always asking me what she could do for me, what I needed ... and then knowing I didn't know what the heck I needed anyway, did for me what I didn't know needed to be done.




Sarah had a tiny baby and toddler in August (yeah Brenna wasn't even two months) when she and my mom threw a shower for me. It was incredible! Sarah made the most adorable online invitation (I hope you all got to see it) and made a point of trying to find all the addresses to get it to. Both she and my mom did all the "behind the scenes work" to make that shower possible. Don't you love that diaper cake? How's a girl supposed to live up to creativity like that!? Of course, the works of none other than Sarah Bringhurst! And then my mom and dad gave me a baby stroller/car seat. How awesome! And badly needed I realize now!!!

I was so grateful for them both! That shower was so great... I loved seeing everyone that made it.

Down to crunch time and more than ever I needed support and Sarah was there every beat of the way. I had a couple false alarms and she was already out purchasing things I would need (all the hygiene stuff I didn't even think about included!). We were on the phone almost everyday. It's crazy how homesick I became for my mom during that time and she knew it, so she truly was there as though she was my mom. (My poor mom in Nevada going crazy the whole time wishing she could be there!!) Sarah brought meals for Darin and gifts to the hospital when Jakob was born, I felt so grateful just to have her there! It meant the world to me! She also made us delicious homemade spaghetti for our first night home.

She did all this although she had plenty of reason to beneeding the help she was giving. She had a new baby too!

Sarah continues to be a hero to me to this day, giving me much needed advice and company whenever she's not working as a registered nurse or magnifying to death her calling as mother and wife (she makes meals for her family every night and everything)! She is just like my mom. Accomplishing the impossible and not asking a single thing in return.