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I'll Never Forget

I’ll never forget the day the day the Lord brought her into our lives.

That tiny sunshiny baby, such a little morsel of a being that I just had to hold her in my arms and protect. She was our sixth and final child, and Heaven knows I spoiled her to no end. She frightened us half to death that day though. She wasn’t supposed to arrive for another couple of weeks. So when her mamma went into labour, needles to say I panicked. I rushed around, rounding up all the kids to usher along to Doctor Baker’s office. Until my wife, who had remained absolutely calm, reminded me that she was going to have a home birth. So I waved the midwife and got LeAnna settled in our upstairs bedroom. The midwife arrived and made me wait outside. Pretty near wore a hole in the carpet on the landing, I paced so much. Thirteen hours- LeAnna’s longest labour. Bryan Jr and Lissa looked after their younger siblings, whilst worrying about their mamma and the new baby. It was about 3:00 in the morning when I heard the LeAnna’s screaming and the midwife’s coaxing replaced with the crying of a little pair of lungs. The midwife came out a moment later with a bright smile. In her arms was our little bundle of joy, all wrapped up in a pink blanket. I held onto that baby like there was no tomorrow. My sweet little Kaylee.

I’ll never forget the day she fixed her first mechanised device.

At 4 years old she was so inquisitive. Always poking about the shed for something to play with. One day she found an old broken cuckoo clock- or ‘birdie clock’ as she called it. She spent hours out there with that clock. Around nap time LeAnna got concerned, and went out looking for her baby. She found Kaylee sleeping on the dirty floor in the shed, with that gorramn birdie clock next to her. And it was ticking away like it hadn’t for ten years. She was so proud. When she showed me, the first words out o