Jewel's cocktail shower

11/4/12 Daylight saving time ends today, but the extra hour of sleep will be the perfect kick start to our new family routine with your birth drawing near. At 88 degrees, clear sky and sunny, 3 Thirty 3's view of Newport Harbor is a dream backdrop for a baby shower hosted by Angie Gately  and Lindsey Carter.

Clusters of pink and mylar printed helium balloons hung against the seamless glass window over looking the harbor,  lemon and white cream cheese frosting cupcakes from Susie's artistically placed on the table top, garnished  with hand made mini gardens add a nice touch to this unconventional cocktail baby shower.  Along with mimosas and cocktails, my favorite guys and gals  arrive to celebrate your upcoming debut. This is one baby shower most people want but very few will ever experience. 

 Just a week and a half ago, as I was driving away from my weekly appointment with Marie De La Torre, the midwife at Kaiser, I learned that you were breech and a possibility of a C-Section may have to take place.  The news was shocking and took me for a surprise.  I was disappointed and scared as this is not in our birthing plan. Two hours a day, three day a weeks of Child Birth Classes at Hoag Hospital and we still managed to ignore all information related to cesarean section. It was never an option for us. I had this vivid image of having you naturally with the help of epidural.  However, the long drive home encouraged me to think about you and how you have taken such good care of me throughout this journey.  Because of this, I knew that you must know what is best for me.  And so I trust you with all my heart.

Today, as we celebrate you and your safe arrival into our lives, I have embraced this surgical procedure and trust that everything is going to go the way that it should. The happiness and well wishes from our close friends have brought me to a place of contentment and fearlessness.  Now it's just a few days away and I just cannot wait. 

 Baby Jewels, I am ready to welcome you into this world and give you the gentle protection and support that you've been giving me.  Thanks to you the new found  sense of confidence and power that I have recently tacked on is unlike anything I've ever experienced.  See you soon!!