August 19, 2009

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  “Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow,

  For babies grow up, we’ve learned to our sorrow,

  So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep–

  I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep!”

  Thirty years ago, I had just finished stitching that motto onto a piece of linen and had Mr. Dan Ketchum frame it, ready to hang in the nursery … for 30 years ago today I was very, very pregnant and ready to deliver! But nothing was happening. It was a Sunday, and we went to church, sitting beside our doctor-friend. He sympathized with me when I said I was a week past my due date and said he hoped he’d see me soon in the hospital. Five hours later, he arrived there just in time to catch Susannah! After church and lunch and a nap,  Mary Susannah Taber decided to make her appearance, and it seemed she was impatient to do so. We were thankful to live only eight miles from the hospital, for if it had been farther we literally wouldn’t have made it.

  So what is she like, this grown-up baby of ours? Here are some things that inquiring minds want to know about Mary Susannah Taber Alms:

  • Susannah has very long fingers and toes and can palm a woman’s basketball. Next time you see her, ask her to give you the peace sign….it’s an amazing spread.
  • She is neat and tidy, very organized and task-oriented. Her bosses love and adore her, for she gets things done!
  • See her hair in the one-year picture above? That’s the way it was for four long years. No hair bows, no barrettes, nada. But THEN! She got gobs, and by age 5, had enough to be “Curly Locks, Curly Locks” in the kindergarten Mother Goose parade.
  • She loves to go, go, go….being still is not natural for Susannah.
  • She was named for her great-great-great-great-grandmother, Susannah Daily, of Lancaster County, PA. Also, Mary was for great-grandmother Mary Mahan, and great-great-grandmother Mary Bushong.
  • Susannah cannot stay awake in the car. Ask Derek.
  • She is very tender-hearted and cries easily.
  • Susannah is a loyal friend who makes the effort to keep close to those who matter to her.
  • She is forgiving and sees the best in everyone.
  • Susannah is a wonderful, devoted mother to her own two little ones, and this makes her mother extremely proud.

  I love you and look forward to seeing what the next 30 years brings for you, our beautiful daughter, Sus!

                                                              

                               

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