My darling Baby D, Today is the twentieth anniversary of an event that changed the world forever. This event that we call 9/11 is in your history books but it is a reality that I share with you. So much more has happened to this world since then. 2020 was the year of the pandemic - this time your reality more than mine. You actually got the dreaded covid bug. It has been a year and some of isolation, masks, vaccines and fear all around us. Each new day makes our reality uncertain and changing all the time. And yet for me this is a day of hope. 9/11 of 2020 is what I will call it. I had prayed for over five years - sometimes fervently, sometimes desperately, sometimes, honestly not at all. I often got tired of waiting but my weak faith was not going to stop God’s plan. A year has gone by and I have watched you grow from the tiny fragile little baby, to a boy who cannot sit still. Oh what joy you bring to my heart. I love your welcome at the condo and your response when you hea