A first.....

Today, for a brief moment the world stood still. I looked into the eyes of my first grandchild, Noah Logan Capponcelli. My chest felt it would burst from the instantaneous love I felt when I saw his small round face, his eyes blinking like an owl's. Looking so young and vulnerable and at the same time, so old and wise.
I never thought I would have a family. Have a physical link of genetics with another person. I felt very alone in the world because there was no one I knew of who shared my genetics. No one with a common ancestor, or a common link.
Then I was blessed with a husband and eventually two boys, Eli and Eric. I finally had a link I had missed most of my life. Down the line came the discovery of aunts and uncles, cousins, a sister and 3 brothers. But no link is closer than the child you give birth to.
Today Noah came into being. He was no longer a mystery hiding in the belly of my daughter-in-law. He will change and grow. His beautiful countenance will alter with time, but I will always see him in the back of my mind as I first did today. Swaddled, full head of hair hidden by a little cap with a blue bow. Small hands with perfect little fingers and those large eyes looking up at his father, my son, as if he could see him as clear as day.
I am his 'memaw', his grandmother. He is the first, the son of my son. I find this amazing, wondrous, amusing, overwhelming, any and everything you can think of. How does this happen? How do the years fly by so quickly that one minute you are the mother of a newborn and the next you are looking at that child, full grown to manhood holding his own child? I don't know but what I do know is now there is Noah and another adventure begins.