A Moment in Time

After my daughter was born, I discovered something very exciting.  More exciting than the fact that she slept through the night within the first week (babies do that??)  More exciting than her rolling over when she was just 4 days old - twice.  I have it on video.  More exciting than seeing how much her big brother loved her, immediately and completely.

Well, OK, maybe it wasn't more exciting than all that . . . but my inner geek insists that nothing could be better than this:

My daughter was born in the very same hours that Brandon Sanderson finished writing A Memory of Light.

Whaaaat?!?  I know, crazy, right?!  I was thrilled when I read this on Brandon Sanderson's blog. Unfortunately, no one else really seemed to appreciate just how amazing this was.  Even my husband, who is a Wheel of Time fan as well, just admitted that it was "kinda cool."  And when I blurted it on Facebook, unable to contain my excitement . . .well, it was the online equivalent of everyone smiling-and-nodding.  For those of you who don't know, the Wheel of time is a series that Robert Jordan began writing in 1984, with the first novel, The Eye of the World, being published in 1990. It is an amazing, epic series, and the 14th and final book in the series was completed by Brandon Sanderson on July 30th, 2012.  My daughter's birthday.  Oh.  Yeah.

The funny part is I had sort of wanted to name her Aviendha all along.  I knew I couldn't really do that to her, but part of me wanted to anyway.  Luckily my husband is the voice of reason.  But she was Aviendha to me in my heart - my little Aiel warrior.  I thought we needed to pay homage to this amazing connection she shared with such an important landmark in history, so we did the following photo shoot.

Of course, A Memory of Light wasn't actually published yet when I did this.  I just couldn't wait though, I needed her to be sweet and sleepy for it.  I do have a vague idea of a shoot with the proper book, and once I work out the details will share that as well.  Hopefully someone out there will appreciate it as much as I do.