Beautiful Calm

Another Ch-Angel addition! My favorite kind to write!

About twenty years ago, (I won't give away her exact birth date), my husband and I were blessed with our first little bundle of joy! Obviously, one of our first phone calls was to my mom. I said, we have a beautiful baby girl. She replied, almost immediately, "Wow! She was born exactly in between you and Vic." How she came to that conclusion that fast still amazes and baffles me, but she's absolutely right.
Deanna Sarene was born three months and two days after Victor's birthday and three months and two days before mine. A true comingling of our best parts! Even more bizarre is the fact that we are all cusp people - born between two signs, although we're all certain which ones we are!

Deanna, at birth and for the next nine months, kinda looked like a chubby, white Don King. She had thick dark hair that stuck straight up, no matter what we did to it. Although it was a little bothersome, it certainly suited her personality! She rolled over at 36 days! My girlfriend said, "It's just a coincidence." I laid Deanna down again, and . . . whoomp . . . turned herself over again! She never really did the "cruising the furniture" thing. At nine months she kind of decided that she'd had enough of the crawling garbage, it was time to see the world. She's been running ever since.

In fact, when she was in elementary school, that was one of her many nicknames: "The Running Girl". Everywhere she went, she was running. Forest Gump - only brilliant. Adding double digit numbers before kindergarten, she amazed us constantly. When her little brother came along, she became the vigilant caretaker and babysitter. She adored, and still does (in her own way), her little brother.

Deanna certainly embraces her zodiological sign - Taurus! She is stubborn, persistent, very social although their feelings run far deeper than most can imagine, and loyal. She is an earth sign, relating to nature and pets best. In addition, her talents are varied and incredible. She is an artist at heart, pursuing activities which capture the eye and the heart of viewers. She draws amazingly. Her photography is absolutely outstanding. She is a philanthropist and a volunteer and, although not quite as an emotional train-wreck as me, she has her moments. She's much stronger than I am.

She is a definite Ch-Angel. She is determined. She is delicate. She is beautiful. She is calm. That is what her name means . . . Beautiful Calm. My Deanna Sarene.