Mother's day from the eyes of a part time father.

I wish I had posted this on the actual day of Mother's day but due to an incredible amount of writers block and time restraints this comes almost a month late. Outside the woman that mothered me, the one that has left the most indelible mark on my perception of a mother is the one that gave birth to my beautiful baby girl Annilyn. Her mother is Jamie Wilson, who upon giving me the news of her pregnancy had to watch me freak out and fret over my reluctance to become a father, she made the choice to carry her pregnancy to term as I for a short term felt like it was the wrong thing to do. I cannot ever put to words the love I have for my little girl, and if Jamie had heeded my initial response of wanting to cease the pregnancy i would have been left with a void I never could imagine after meeting my daughter for the first time in the delivery room. The life I lived before Anni was an empty one compared to the one I have now, I have hope and and love for something I once thought as a group of dividing cells, so first and foremost Jamie I want to thank you for giving birth to our precious little daughter, she is the reason I live and breathe and I would have never known any greater purpose if you had not brought her into my life.
Annilyn has been displaying the most amazing intelligence for a 14 month old, and i credit that to a mother who has at times had to deal with both a child of her own and the child that is her child's father, it is pretty common knowledge that I am for lack of a better term a "space cadet" and Anni has been the catalyst for my slow transformation into a more down to earth person. Jamie spends every waking moment catering to a child that has been showing the propensity for being alot more than a handful. From simple examples like Anni wanting full control over the phone and computer and anything you just happen to be doing at the moment to having to describe to her why she can't do everything that she wants. Jamie has had so little time for any of her own personal agenda, and that is compounded by the fact that I have been gallivanting all over the world in my employment with pop stars. The time that I spend with my daughter is just a fraction of the time she spends with her mother, and although we both love Anni beyond measure it doesn't mean that Jamie is unjust for wanting to relinquish the responsibility of "baby wrangling" to some one else. Anni gets into everything and if you turn your head for a second she is getting into things that you would never imagine she could get into, so for a person like myself who has a very one track mind and doesn't like to be distracted in the middle of thoughts Jamie has what i would call super powers, she can for instance be shopping for groceries while on the phone all time keeping Anni from dismantling a product display or grabbing at anything within her reach. Now if I would try to just go shopping with Anni I would come home with nothing but products that caught Anni's eye and a bill for the repair on the refrigeration units that Anni would have somehow found a way of taking apart using nothing but a sippee cup and a bobby pin found on the floor. We recently went to blockbuster to rent a movie to attempt to watch, and I let Anni walk around help pick out movies, well she took off like a bullet and went straight to any movie that was within reach of her little fingers and was colorful that if we went with her decision on what to watch it would have been 6 copies of memoirs of a geisha and 3 copies of Life Aquatic and a copy of THX 1138 and numerous other copies of things I forgot. Another thing that Jamie seems to be taking in stride is the demands of feeding a very picky eater, Anni doesn't like to be fed anything, she likes to feed herself, and when she is in the mood for things like rice or ice cream or crab rangoon it is like an explosion went off and any surface within 3 square miles is covered in it, coupled with the fact that Anni will just about rip off Jamie's clothes to get to a boob is quite funny, nothing beats a little girl walking up to her mom and just reaching in her shirt for a taste of breast milk.

Jamie is a great mother, if you need any proof of that you just have to look at the little girl she is raising and see that all of the learning that has been going on in Anni's head is because of her incredible mother, there is nothing more pure in the universe as the love a mother has for her child. Jamie has taking the rearing of our child and made it her true calling, so Jamie, thank you, Anni has the best mother she could ever have and your genes mingled with mine have created a super baby the likes this world has never seen. So happy belated mother's day, I love you.
C.D.