I hope you will forgive my long absence from the Poetry Friday community, but I believe I have good reason for forgoing my usual weekly poetry posts. Rather than explain my absence in my own words, I thought I’d let the ever-wonderful Christina Rossetti do the talking for me.
I Know a Baby, Such a Baby – Christina Rossetti
Have a lovely weekend, friends, and if you can, send a prayer to the sleep gods for me, we could use some shut-eye around these parts!
Oh, my goodness! C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! Yes, I’m wishing you sleep. Lots and lots of sleep when baby sleeps. Oh, what a lucky baby to have a mama that reads and writes and travels and finds beauty everywhere. Enjoy every moment.
How wonderful! Congratulations!! “Cuddle and love me” — definitely more important than anything else 🙂
Your Poetry Friday logo looks great. It looks like a book cover!
Thanks! I’ve been fiddling around with logos and design a bit, sprucing up the old blog! It’s something I can easily do on my phone while baby is snoozing on me. 🥰
I just noticed your news on Instagram, too. “I know a baby” is just right, Jane. Congratulations & best wishes for sleep when you can get it!
Thanks Linda! We’re still finding our footing, but we’ve all made it though the newborn phase and are being showered with smiles and giggles, so life is good! 🙂
Jane, many congratulations! I was hoping you would include a photo, too. Good luck getting back into a regular sleeping pattern.
Oh, that sleep! I can’t believe I used to pull all-nighters in my student days, now I feel like a zombie! Thank goodness for coffee. 😉
AW!!! So so many congratulations and all the love in the world. What a lucky lucky baby. I surround you with hope and the most joyous wishes during this enchanting time. xxxx
Thank you, such lovely words! Baby will certainly be spoiled with love, and of course poetry. 🙂
Sounds like quite a cute “excuse”!
I think so! 😀
Did my comment record?
It did! I just haven’t figured out how to make this silly blog not need approval for comments, it’s like I have to hold it’s hand all the time, yeesh! 😀
Oh, how glorious! Congratulations, Jane!
Oh, Christina Rossetti did a wonderful job! It’s so nice to see you here again and even better to have your return accompanied by such joyous news! Congratulations!!!
Didn’t she just capture that newborn loveliness so perfectly? And thank you, thank you! We’re pretty thrilled. 🙂
Congratulations on such a baby! Enjoy! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
Thank you, Ruth! He is such a baby!
Jane — Huge congrats to you! What a perfect poem to welcome your new little one. I love those sleepy eyes.
Thank you! Aren’t her words just so lovely? It’s like she wrote them from my heart. 🙂
I’m glad you were able to share today. Congratulations! Enjoy getting to know every dimple and crease in the new baby! Sleep will come again.
Thank you! That’s what everyone keeps telling us. Until then, thank goodness for caffeine! 😉
Yay! So happy to see you here, Jane, and sharing the sweetest poem ever. 🙂
It’s lovely to be back, however sporadically. 😉 And isn’t it just lovely?
Jane, thanks for Rosetti’s poem which so captures some of the reasons newborns capture our hearts. Congratulations and best wishes!
Thank you! I know, I swear she wrote that poem just for me. 🙂
Joyful night of keeping up with babe & fuzzy daze to you too As Mum of a sweet babe wh is in far-off Sweden (at the moment) with her hubby, who we love, too, my advice is keep babe laughing, keep babe as close as you can, drop what you are doing to speak with babe thru all the child days, for soon babe will want to return to you from far adventures in the Wonder World. 🙂 Love love love to parents & babe.