A return to Guyana

As I spoke with Uncle Neville last night, I realized how much I missed him, my family, and my country.  Thoughts of my grandmother enter my mind daily and my experience in her hometown last year gave me more of her and of myself than I could have ever imagined.  It's time to go back...to rejuvenate...to develop plans to make a sustainable impact on the health, welfare and development of my home country. It's time to make another trip to Guyana before I transition from classroom to the hospital full time. If I can save up enough $$ and plan correctly, I should be able to head out there for a week after I take my board exams in June.  I would love to spend more than 1 week, but I'll take what I can get!


Blessings abound...even if you don't recognize them!

A new addiiton!

This morning I welcomed into this world my cousin Bjorn and Nina's first baby girl!! Her name is Zoe Enid Edwards. I've been going through so many emotions since her arrival, I just don't know what to do with myself!! I look at her and I'm happy and excited, and hopeful... I'm already imagining her first birthday party, or spending time holding her and playing with her while Nina prepares her bottle or a yummy stewed carrot snack. I think about the goofy conversations we'll have as she starts talking gibberish, and the conversations we'll have when I can actually understand what she's saying. This little girl is so perfect, I just can't contain myself! If I'm feeling this way already, I can't even imagine how Bjorn and Nina are feeling right now. I have so much to give, and so much to share....

As I stood in the nursery this morning, I was talking with Zoe's grandpa Rafael about all of the experiences and hopes that we have for little Zoe... I never really understood how I changed the world for my family until I saw Zoe today. Everything is different now.

Zoe Enid Edwards was named after my grandmother-Enid Edelgertha Benjamin (Motherdear). I couldn't think of a better middle name for this baby. I know Motherdear would be so proud to see baby Zoe now. It's times like these when I miss her most. I stopped blogging after I cut my Guyana trip short this summer to return home for Motherdear's funeral, and I haven't blogged since. I think it's time to come back and share my home..my love..and my travels once more.

I am so grateful for these priceless moments...

The world is a better place because you're here little Zoe!!!

I love you SOOOOOOOOOOO much!!

MUAH!!!

Until we play again....

--Auntie Pat