DOUBLE BLESSINGS!

Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret. ~Ruth Morgan 

(Full term; Six months)

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; 

A mother's secret hope outlives them all.  

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. ~Toni Morrison

Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone. ~Author Unknown

 When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?  ~Pam Brown

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg

~ OR ~

 God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. ~Mary Pride