melinda
June 1 When I first met Melinda she was three years old.
I was very young and madly in love with her big brother but it wasn't long before I had fallen in love with Melinda too.
Impossibly fey and deliciously ingenuous, she was already intelligent, self-possessed and imbued with an uncommon serenity and gracefulness that inspired reverence.
Her friends fell into line. We all did.
She was bewitching.
Today, many years later, Melinda is still mesmerising.
She has channelled Freya, beautiful and propitious Nordic Goddess of sensuality and love.
Sexy, strong and successful, she embodies perfectly the modern woman.
Six feet tall, of blindingly blonde beauty, sharp wit, extraordinary understanding, compassion and blessed with a rare charm and elegance, she is Grace Kelly without the sad.
She is modern without the mad.
She is bold without the bad.
She is still my little Melinda and I love her.
This afternoon she had a baby and the earth moved.
I have been expecting this day since her news brightened my dark world in November.
Throughout two months of painting her nursery wall mural and despite the hugging, squeezing and kissing of the burgeoning belly bulge, I am still a little shocked by her transformation.
I am deeply moved and a little shaken.
Melinda has been my baby.
Even though she quickly outgrew me, tucking me under her arm by the time she was a teenager, I have seen her as a little girl.
Today, she is a mother.
She is a mother like me and she has, unquestionably, grown up.
It seems an age since she was three.
It is almost as long since I was bigger, but she will always be my little Mel.
There has been an exquisite shift and I look forward to embracing it.
I can't wait to hug and kiss the baby boy she and her darling husband have brought into the world.
I can't wait to hug and kiss the girl that is still my little Mel, still and always the little girl I love.
But this time I will kiss her as a mother greets another and welcome her with passion into a brave and beautiful, delicious and darling new world.
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Reader Comments (17)
Dear Minx, what a lovely tribute to Mel, and what a beautiful woman and mother she has turned into...Congrats to her and ner new one :)
What a great good news post.
Thank you Lady Terri xx
She really is a beautiful Woman, as lovely on the inside as she is on the surface.
She has grown into something remarkable and I'm very proud of her.
As for her baby. I have just returned from almost eating him. Perfectly adorable.
xx
Oh thank you Uncle Norman xx
Straight from my heart it was.
And such lovely news!!
xx
What a poet you are, Minx! Your description of Melinda reminds me of a song I learnt a long time ago:
When miss Melinda goes a walking in the morning air
She sees the people who are shopping in the market square
Abandon all their tittle tattle
Turn around and stare like cattle
For she is so fair
She sounds absolutely delicious!
And she is, isn't she?
Because you would know, dear Minx, you would know...
Congratulations to Melinda!!
x
My dear Gorilla friend,
That sounds just like Melinda!!
She certainly does have that effect on people.
(Thank goodness you didn't launch into that other little song about a Melinda, the Mexican one, with the sombrero...)
x
She is as delicious as she sounds, Eddie.
Very sweet.
And yes, I am a discerning Minx who recognizes quality.
xx
Wonderful news! Lovely woman! I can see why you are enchanted and charmed. Oh how fun to have a little baby to snuggle.
All such good, good stuff!
I do hope your lips are on the mend my dear?
xoxo
Mistress M
Oh Margot,
He is certainly the most delicious delivery this year!
xxx
I must confess to being an avid snuggler of babies.
I truly almost ate the adorable little thing yesterday.
Enchanted and charmed all over again...
(I can't even talk about the simultaneously numb and painful lip scenario, it disappoints me so...)
XOXOX
obladi oblada
Minx, what a wonderful tribute
(what is the name of the baby ?)
xxx
violette
Obladi oblada life goes on, bra
Lala, how the life goes on.
Obladi oblada life goes on, bra
Lala, how the life goes on ...
a lovely musical reference, Thinista...
in a couple of years they have built a home sweet home,
with a couple of kids running in the yard.
And if you want some fun - take Obladiblada.
xx
Thank you Violette xx
His name is Noah
Noah Michael...
He is absolutely delicious and very handsome xxx
(I LOVE your sliposcope!!!)
Beautiful!!
(you have to vote again, because you choose 2 girls !!!! and you have to pick a girl + a boy, Sweety)
Oops.
I will try again...
Je suis désolé, chéri.
xox
as always,,, stated with true elegance...
congratulations....