Aunt Bridget/godmother fell asleep with her goddaughter

Mommy and the Baby

The Newest addition to our family

On May 12, 2009, a beautiful little girl was born to Mike and Moira Lawless. Anna Philomena!! She weighed 6 pounds 6 ounces and she was 19 inches long. She has big blue eyes and came out with curly dark hair. Moira is doing great. I've heard many moms say that it is amazing how smoothly everything ran. Of course, with a 17 hour labor everything else would seem easy. It is such a blessing to have Moira and Mike so close. They stop by very often and Anna always is the magnet of attention. If you ask to hold her in this house, be prepared for the reply, "I'm next and then Danny, and then William, and then Bridget, and then I think dad...and then you can go." This baby is what Grandpa Dan, (Daniel) calls an air baby. She is never put down. The baptism was on Pentecost Sunday and William and Bridget (me) are the godparents. I cannot express what a great honor it is to be entrusted as the godparents in this holy sacrament.
The week before the baptism, Moira and I scrimped and scrammed as she likes to say, to make the baptismal gown. We used the alter cloth from the old chapel at TAC. Moira knew that it would be packed up and probably never used again so she ask her friend, the head sacristan, if she would be willing to send it. The IHS is positioned at the base of the gown so that you can see it through the lacy material that we sewed on top. Anna looked beautiful! What a joy it is to have her!