Alpina's blog post - I am so happy

Thanks for your very good wishes, my dear friends. You find me a thoroughly happy woman - what I have experienced is the best which has ever happened to me, in spite of all the pain, and the fear. Nature is so wonderful - how could it ever come up which such a design. Or then there is a God - it almost makes one believe that she is there making sure that the world will go on.

You should see the proud father - he is as excited as I am, although she is not his first daughter. It is Angelika, as you will remember, but he was still very young when she was born and wasn't so close, as her mother didn't live with him. Angelika herself was here almost daily: she is going to be the godmother and she's looking at Alpinita as if she was hers.

Helene has gone away for some days - I told her to go although I was very happy about her support - but she mustn't sever the ties to her son Oliver, so she is spending Christmas with him and her parents. Elsie and Joerg are coming over often - it's not easy for them, but they are my best friends, and Elsie helps me whenenver she can. For Christmas we cannot do much this year - maybe go to church at midnight tomorrow - Angelika will look after Alpinita. On 25th Phillip's parents will come - I wonder what their reaction is going to be when they see their new-born grand-daughter.

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and I hope your wishes will be fulfilled as much as mine. Kiss you all, my friends, and hug you tight !