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What’s In A Birthday?

Deborah Venable

06/27/09

 

Today is the anniversary of the birth of my oldest child.  Her birthday is replete with memories for me because I became a parent for the first time while her father was in route from an overseas eight month deployment in the U.S. Navy.  He left immediately after she was conceived – first stop, Vietnam.

 

In those days, they did not hurry new mothers out the door of the hospital as soon as possible like they do now, especially not when there had been complications at birth.  My daughter was fighting for her life after having been resuscitated from a stillborn birth.  I was fighting for my sanity at not being able to hold her or even see her, except through the glass of the neonatal nursery, only when I was able to walk there on my own the next day.  Things were a lot different back then – especially in a military hospital.

 

Throughout all that frightening day I was in a fog of emotions and I felt the new weight of responsibility – parenthood.  I was pretty much on my own with that feeling because the Red Cross would not notify my husband since they could not tell him that we were both fine.  That, I was told, was SOP back then whenever sailors were in the middle of the ocean. 

 

I was discharged from the hospital four full days after she was born, but I could not take her home with me.  I still had not held her or even touched her, and I could not make the long drive to the hospital to even see her.  My daily calls to the hospital were met with negative news until a week after she was born when the second miracle happened.  (The first had been her resuscitation in the delivery room.)  The long awaited positive answer came when they said, “she will be fine.”  They had detached her from life support and were discharging her. 

 

Since she had arrived ahead of schedule, and I had spent almost everything I had to set up a new home in the ship’s homeport for us, I could not even afford a bed for her.  I brought her home to a large dresser drawer as a bassinet, but I had made sure that I would be able to nurse her, and my mother had carefully washed and ironed an entire layette of hand-me-downs that friends had contributed.  I cannot express the sheer joy of holding my baby and taking care of her for the first time.  It was pure magic!

 

My husband arrived in homeport just days before my daughter’s actual due date, and I met the ship at the pier with her in my arms.  I will never forget the look on his face as I saw him seconds before he had picked us out of the crowd.  He had his buddies helping him look for a very pregnant wife because he still did not know she was born.

 

The first thing we did that day was go shopping for a “proper bed” for our daughter.

 

We had four more children during the twenty years after that, and my husband was present for all their births.  Each birthday was miraculous and each one was magical, but the birthday of Shannon Elizabeth, June 27, 1970 was the birthday of this Professional Parent and the beginning of my greatest achievement.

 

Birthdays are a big deal.  They deserve celebration for the continuing miracle of life, which they represent.  That is in our culture and our American heritage.  We celebrate life. 

 

If you’ve done the math, you will realize that my daughter came home from the hospital on July 4, 1970 – a full week after her birth, and less than two hundred years after the celebrated birth of our country. 

 

We celebrate both events in our family. 

 

Happy birthday, Shannon!  You are a shining example of the best promise God ever gave a mother!

     

 

This is a picture of Shannon with her father, shortly after her third birthday.  I took it from the crown of the Statue Of Liberty with the newly completed Twin Towers in the background. 

 

What’s in a birthday?  For one thing, an awful lot of history, and a big reason to celebrate each and every stage of life.  Children truly are the Hope For America’s Future, and it is a parent’s job to make sure that they are full with it. 

 

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I love to point out as often as possible that there are still some pretty extraordinary young people in America.  You know, young folks with their heads on straight, who appreciate good stuff when they see it.  Recently, my young friend, Andrew, sent me a poem that he said had made a positive impression on him.  Here is the kicker, it was written and first published in 1934!  I think you will agree that the positive message cannot be denied:

 

The Guy in the Glass

by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934

 

When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf,

And the world makes you King for a day,

Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,

And see what that guy has to say.

 

For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,

Who judgment upon you must pass.

The feller whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the guy staring back from the glass.

 

He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear up to the end,

And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test

If the guy in the glass is your friend.

 

You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,

And think you're a wonderful guy,

But the man in the glass says you're only a bum

If you can't look him straight in the eye.

 

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,

And get pats on the back as you pass,

But your final reward will be heartaches and tears

If you've cheated the guy in the glass.

 

In grateful memory of our father, the author, Dale Wimbrow 1895-1954

 

 

From his children's website, I found another poem:

 

 

My Religion

by Dale Wimbrow

MY CHURCH, AND MY CREED

 

You ask me "what is my religion"?

Now what if I say I have None?

You'll be wrongly impressed,

And unduly distressed

So wait - I have only begun.

 

My creed in the sense that you mean it,

Has no single symbol, or sign.

Big, impressive, or small,

There is good in them all,

So perhaps Your religion is mine.

 

My doctrine is any that stands for

The honor and virtue of men.

For whatever we preach,

We're all striving to reach

A mutual goal in the end.

 

My church is the one that is nearest

Wherever I happen to be.

The place where men go

Their devotion to show,

Is good - and sufficient for me.

 

What matters the Name on the mileposts

That stand by the path you have trod?

If the pathway leads UP

Then at last you shall sup

With the infinite army of God.
 

 

 

 

 

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