my conversation with God

Yesterday on a drive, I was having a little chat with God. Saturday night, I didn't sleep much because I had all these ideas in my head. BIG IDEAS! Back to that in a moment. So as I driving down the road, the infamous question..."why?" came up. hahahaha!

The conversation went something like this:
Hannah: "Why are you using lil' ol' me to do these great big things?"
God: "Why not you?"

That was my "aha" moment! Although I wanted to list all of the reasons why not me, I didn't.

If you are keeping up with my professional blog in the the past couple of days, you will see that a Birth Network for Tarrant Co. is in the works. I have been thinking about it for several months, but who am I? I am a brand new doula (BTW, doula is not a word according to blogger!!), no childbirth experience of my own, and no real childbirth experience in general besides the 13 births I have attended. I threw the idea out there to Donna back in December, but it has remained just an idea until now. With all the fantastic ideas in my head, I called her yesterday...apologizing for adding another thing to her plate. (She is a Bradley Instructor and mother of 4 and is busy!) But, she is the one to go to for this. So, I have been working to get the word out for a meeting of professionals to get together and form a network. It is a lot of work. Part of me thinks that no one with kids really has the time to get such a gigantic thing rolling in this big metroplex we live in.

I think it is exciting and scary all at the same time. I have had a lot of interest so far. I talked to another doula, chiropractor, and midwife yesterday. Northwest AR has a Birth Network and I am waiting on a call from the co-leader of that chapter to kick around some ideas as well.

So, I am going to try and get some sleep these day. Chamomile tea may become a good friend of mine from now on.