When I was 19, i met my first daughter when she was 6 months old, she has been such an amazing blessing to my life. Since her birth to the age of 3 i had missed the first 6 months of her life, i was there for 6-12 months, 18-24 and 30 months to the present. She was there for me through the roughest times, she has been my friend when it seemed i had none. I told her on the day of my wedding to my beautiful wife Shannan, i said "Chloe you've been there for me when i had nobody" and she interupts me and says "Yes you do dad, you have everyone see, you silly goose" she was referring to the people at the wedding, it took the tears and turned it into laughter.
On December 26th, in the early morning, my wife left the house to pick up some things, she returned and awoke me to show me a pregnancy test, i said in my tired stooper "It shows to negatives" she said look again, and i was amazed to see a positive sign, we were pregnant, and the best part of it...it was planned.
Madilynn Elizabeth Carpenter, Due August 18, 2011 will be the little sister to a proud 4 year old, Chloe Lou. These two kids are my life, if i can teach them the morals, ethics, values and beliefs that i have picked up, been taught and that were instilled into me as a child, i believe i will have done what God has planned for me to do. I want these kids to live a life for God, not for other people, not for the highly coveted dollar $ign, not for fame or glory, but to God be the Glory. I want my children to know the purpose of life, and that is to a child of God and to show his love through our actions and through our day to day lives. Our 4 year daughter shows me Gods love every time we go to pick her at 9 a.m. Sunday morning, she comes and runs to me wraps her little arms around my neck, kisses me on the cheek saying "DADDY I MISSED YOU!" when we return home and prepare to eat breakfast she is always there to remind us to pray over our meal, and thank God for all of his many blessings, she insists on praying over our meals and they go something like this as we all hold hands "Dear Jesus, thank you for this food, thank you for baby blueberry (Madilynn), thank you for mommy and daddy thank you for Jesus and God thank you for Bobba and great great germy (grandpa and grandma), thank you for everything and in Jesus Christ amen". She as a 4 year knows the importance of showing thanks, and giving thanks to God for all the people he has put into our lives to help direct us, to help guide us on the straight and narrow.
Madilynn has already blessed us and our family, from he womb! she has brought together families, she has brought the real importance of life down to a real level, that little cherished gift inside of her mommy's tummy is a constant reminder of Gods amazing gift, and that is Life. It shouldn't be taken for granted and it should never be thought of as unimportant. I pray i can be half the father to her that my dad was and is to me, if i can do that i know ill be okay. I am blessed with an amazing wife, Shannan is the most amazing mother any child could hope to have, her virtue and strength, her love and compassion is unparalleled.
