Showing posts with label New baby Poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New baby Poem. Show all posts

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Beyond Compare...


We are delighted and grateful beyond words to celebrate the birth of
a new baby brother for Big Brother and Sister!
Thanking God for the safe arrival of another grandson
yesterday morning...tipping the scales at 9lbs. 10 oz.!!
Mother and Baby are doing fine!

 

Of all the lovely blessings that this life allots, I think
The kind that comes all soft and squirmy, sweet, precious and pink
With button nose and hands and toes so perfect and so small
Must be life’s most sacred and beautiful blessing of all

Of all the beauties to behold one cannot be outdone
The miracle of Baby is beyond comparison
Love overflows the heart in utter thankfulness and joy
For this gift only God can give; a baby girl or boy

The heart becomes a wellspring where sweet wonder overflows
Into our softest kisses and the gentlest hands earth knows
As arms turn into cradles and gratitude into prayer
Because a baby is a miracle beyond compare

© Janet Martin

Beaming with Big-brotherly joy.



I had the pleasure of telling them the news yesterday morning
as well as sharing their first glimpses of him last night...
which tripled the joy💖

First glimpses...
(I couldn't keep up with them as they leaped from the car
and bolted to the house leaving the front door wide open behind them
and this is how I found them)


Psalm 139:14
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
 Marvelous are Your works, 
And that my soul knows very well.

Friday, April 5, 2019

Precious, Precious Heart-stealer

PAD Challenge day 5: For today’s prompt, write a 'stolen' poem.

Well, for this prompt Gramma didn't need to think twice!
She's a heart-stealer for sure.



From our first precious peek
at chubby-cheeks
button nose
they steal our hearts
to the tips of our toes

…where nothing in the world
no matter
what we lack
makes us wish that we
could have our hearts back

© Janet Martin

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Sweet Precious Wow!


 After a bit of a roller-coaster week we are thrilled to announce the birth of our grand-daughter
on Friday! Both mother and baby are doing well!



Not ready yet to fret about the ways that wait to test and try
Enough for now to simply snuggle, cuddle, kiss and rock-a-bye

Earth is a plateau where both highs and lows alloy and drive us wild
Heaven is never nearer than in the joy of a newborn child  

Not ready yet to think about how soon you’ll sit or walk or talk
Enough for now, sweet precious Wow, to simply snuggle, kiss and rock

© Janet Martin

 Makes me re-appreciate this quote!
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Earth-heaven's Wee While or Of Parent and Child


 For readers not on FB, in case you missed the 'news'...
 Congratulations to my niece Brittany and her husband Josh! 
They are proud new parents of a baby girl born on Saturday! 
Welcome to a whole new world of wonder!


Can't believe our grandson is 16 mos. old!


Few things in life are quite as dear and lovely to behold
As tender wonder wakening in yester’s girl and boy
When they become the parents of their own sweet boy or girl
Their arms full of new baby and their mouths speechless with joy

There is no sight quite as delightful as parent with child
In new worlds filled with pat-a-cake and baby-hush-a-bye
Where learn-to-walk becomes a catch-me-if-you-can run wild
As mom and dad arrange life around precious sweetie-pie

Ah, there is nothing in the world as beautiful as this;
The clinging-to-one-finger-stroll, dad tall, child oh, so small
Or chubby arms about the neck, or goodnight’s softest kiss
As weariness becomes a way of life’s best years of all

They always seem to catch our eye and stir a tender smile
Where innocence and inexperience make quite a pair
But there is nothing lovelier than earth-heaven’s wee while
Of this-pig-went-to-market-oh-no-we-lost-teddy-bear

© Janet Martin

...and the next best thing to parent and child I'm just beginning to learn,
is grandparent and child!

Brantley loves his grandma's rolling pin collection....
 Suddenly there was a big crash and he scooted away with an 'uh-oh, I might be in trouble' look...
 'Oh Brantley', I said with a serious face, 'what did you do?!'
Then, to ease his uncertainty about Grandma's face I smiled and said, 'oh, it's okay, you're just a curious little boy and Grandma loves you so much. Do you want a hug?' 
and he broke into a big smile of relief and came flying into my arms, 
his heart-thump-thumping against mine

Train up a child in the way he should go: 
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Prov.22:6



Monday, May 1, 2017

What Happiness a Baby Brings...



…and so they grow
Grandson Brantley will be 4 mos. in a few days.
He loves to come and hang out at grandma's house with mommy, 
as they did today to while smile away a rain-dreary afternoon.
(but NO smiles for the camera:)



 (Brantley greeting daddy just home from work)

Praying God’s guidance and blessing
to young parents everywhere
in their new greatest mission;
parenthood!



What happiness a baby brings
The crown-jewel of common kings
Where lilied light of laughter rings
The song-bells of the heart
With love of loves and joy of joys
As weeny girls and teeny boys
Heaven’s magnum opus deploys
To earth, its purest art

God smiles into our hungry arms,
A miracle of dearest charms
Wonder, both young and old disarms
With mutual delight
Then all we want to do is kiss
And cuddle newborn baby-ness
Because nothing compares to this;
…a baby to hold tight

What sacred task a baby brings
God entrusts us with angel-wings
That soon entangle in heart-strings
As they learn how to fly
While we learn how to hold-let-go
And teach the love of ‘yes’ and ‘no’
And my, how fast sweet baby grows
Hush-hush and rock-a-bye

© Janet Martin