The Smith's Funny Farm

felicity (noun)  1. intense happiness

•  helping my sister through early labor pains with pep talks and readings;

•  coming home to happy children, anxious to see their mother;

•  holding my three beautiful babies around me as they shower kisses upon my cheeks;

•  pondering each birth experience I have had and marveling at the miracle of each;

•  getting a call last night at 11:30 p.m., "Baby J is here, everyone is doing well."

•  holding my newborn niece against my chest as her mother finally sleeps;

•  examining Baby J's features and discussing in length which side of the family they show;

•  dispensing nursing advice, when I, in fact, am a confirmed milk dud!

•  witnessing your sister falling in love with her beautiful daughter.

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out ... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value ...  The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days." President Gordon B. Hinckley (Nov. 2000)

Mr. M: 3 days old

Miss A: 2 months old

Little C: 2 weeks old

P.S. I'll let Rachel do the unveiling of her babe, when she's ready