Posted in Dear Mom

30 September 2020: Inadvertent birth announcement.

I'm sorry for any confusion; there really hasn't been an appropriate time to make a special announcement with everything going on the past few months... so we were going to wait a while longer. 

But my Mom's writeup in the "Morning Call" sort of made the announcement for us. 

My Mom would have wanted it written that way, though. She believed that each life is precious right from the start... even before birth [and so do I]. She was already excited to meet her newest grandbaby in 2021... we talked about different name suggestions and their meanings;  she was never bashful about telling me which combinations sounded weird or if the potential initials/monogram would spell out an uncouth acronym.
 
While I stood next to my Mom's bedside early Thursday morning, I leaned over to whisper the name we chose for our little girl. So, yes... "Norah Jane" is ours... and she is named after the most remarkable woman I've ever known... Patty Jane Terry.