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Are you familiar with David Sedaris? Of course you are. And thus, you know of his brother, The Rooster, whom you cannot kill.

Anyway, when The Rooster's wife had her baby, it was delivered by Cesarean section and when he was telling David about it, he said something like, "Some babies get here by the natural pathway and some babies have to be cut from their mama's wombs but each and every one is a motherfuckin' miracle of God."

And it's the truth.

And the same is true of conception. Some babies get conceived easily in the "natural" way. In some cases, too easily. That was always the situation with me. Don't get me wrong- I'm like Roseanne when her TV son asked her if he was an accident. "No," she said, "You were a surprise."
Big difference.
But for me, conception was, despite every birth control device or medication known to modern man, a certainty. Eventually. Like, after having sex. Once.

BUT, this is not about that.

This is about the people who have to WORK at having a child. Who, for one reason or another, or for several reasons and then some more, can't just go out on a Friday night, have a few drinks, then come home and make a baby.
But they want a baby so badly that they will go through whatever it takes to get one. They have hearts so big and a love so strong that their only desire in life is to create a family with each other and at least one child.

It's crazy ironic that any two seventeen-year-olds, without any desire to conceive a child at all, have no problem doing it but that two people who have EVERY desire in the world to make a baby sometimes have difficulty.

And when a couple like that goes through whatever it takes and goes through the heartache and sorrow of the pain of not conceiving, month after month after month and then, THEN, DOES, it is the most joyful thing I can imagine.

All right, Ms. Moon. What is your point here?

My point is that Billy and Shayla are going to have a baby.

This baby, this incredibly hoped for, worked for, prayed for, baby is going to be born about a month and a half after Lily's baby.

And who are Billy and Shayla? Well, I have written about Billy many times because he is one of my very best friends in the world. He is the sort of person whom every one loves. And Shayla is too. Because they are magically sweet and delicious. And funny. And precious. And dear. And so pure of heart and so joyful to be around that we all have to stand in line to spend time with them. And they got married in my back yard four years ago today and I got the hugest, highest honor in the world of marrying them and ever since, we've been hoping that they would have a baby because that baby will be so damn lucky and they will be so damn happy that the entire universe will spin a little easier, the world will be righted in many ways, and well, okay, I think you understand what I'm saying.

It is a great and joyful goodness that they will be parents.

When Lily was out here the other day, she said that the one thing about being pregnant she didn't like was that it made her sad to be around Shayla because Shayla wasn't pregnant and wanted to be so desperately.
Well, haha! Shayla IS pregnant and when I got the news from Billy, I cried. I cried again when I talked to Shayla. I immediately ordered them a copy of Spiritual Midwifery.

I am just so damn happy for them I could cry for the next seven months.

And although this coming-baby has all sorts of grandparents and great-grandparents, I hope that there is a tiny sliver of him or her that I can charm. I want to be a part of this baby's life.
He or she will not be of my blood, but will be of my heart.
I will stand in line to wait my turn to hold that baby and feel the love he or she was born from.
And I will hold that baby or just watch Billy and Shayla hold that baby and know that this is indeed a motherfuckin' miracle of God and I will be so happy.

And someday, not so long from now, I will watch Lily and Jason's little boy or girl play in my backyard with Billy and Shayla's little boy or girl and won't that be a joyful day? Won't it?

Oh yes. It will be. I think my heart might break in half from the joy of seeing that come true.

Congratulations, Billy and Shayla, and congratulations to all of us who are blessed to know you and be part of your lives because we are all about to become richer because of you.

Thank-you for working so hard to make your own dream come true because in doing so, you have given us all a gift.

Babies are coming. Babies are coming. Spring is here and babies are coming.
Some are going to be here as a result of the natural pathway and some as a result of a different one.

But they are all motherfuckin' miracles and I know it.