Hello Baby Luna!

Hi Everybody!

Along with my thoughts on Elfquest, I've been sharing the ups and downs of my life with you all for... I think its been fifteen years, give or take... That's a really long time.

Some of you I've never met in person. Several of you, I have. Some have become close friends. And even though I live far apart from most of you, I've been able to have some of the best correspondences with those of you I consider friends from afar. Some folks I would be so down to visit! And one wise and shamanic amigo even talked me through a breakup.

In any case -- my point is, I have appreciated every variation of this forum and the core group of people on it. We've had great discussions and shared our creativity and humor. We only have six more months of Elfquest-- then, who knows what will happen, or if we will all still stick around? I just wanted to say that this community has enhanced my life greatly.

So now I want to share with you my own happy ending. This year, I married the man I love, settled into a beautiful home, and, a week ago, gave birth to my first child. Little baby Luna was born the day before the eclipse-- as was only appropriate. She was 7.7 lbs and smiled from the start. It's been a good year. I hope it will be a good year for all of us!

What a precious gift you have there Luna. A beautiful little girl and look at that head of hair.

May you find joy in your new path of motherhood.

Also thanks for the great pic.

Welcome to the World of One Moon, Lil' Luna. You're such a beautiful precious little wonder.

Congratulations to the pround parents and all good wishes for the little family. May there be joy and lots of love and luck and happyness and whealth and health in your future life.

Thank you for sharing this with us, Lunakat. And thank you for your touching words on our community - back in the days of the old SoC and on FTH now. It's good to read you found so much more than just a comic talk.

What a lil' cutie.

Baby Luna is adorable! Lots of congrats to you and your family! <3

Welcome to the world, Little Luna!
Congratulations to you and your family! May there be lots of love, joy, health, luck and happyness in your lives and that of your little girl!

I love your picture of her. What a beautiful little girl with a bunch of hair!

I'm happy that you have a healthy little child. I really hope it will see a good future in this world. And strenghth and endurance for you, the little ones are great to watch grow up but you'll also need some nerves.

Congratulations Lunakat!! I am very happy for you.
Your little girl is such a cutie, her name is beautiful and very fitting

She is beautiful! Congratulations!

Congratualtions, Lunakat! And welcome, Baby Luna!

BABY!!!

Oh, she's adorable, Lunakat! Congratulations to you and your husband and welcome to the world, baby Luna!

Congratulations Luna!

Ah! Congratulations Luna! And hello Little Luna, welcome to to this worthless wonderful planet!

I like that, Startear... "this worthless, wonderful planet." That about sums up life!

Thank you all so much for your good thoughts, warm wishes and hearty welcomes for my little munchkin.

Congratulations!

Precious beyond words! Congratulations, Lunakat! Welcome to the world, lil' Luna!

Damn. Look at all that hair! She's beautiful, Lunakat! An Eclipse baby (well, pretty much)... wow wow wow. You did good, woman! Just think, all this time, your body has been making this amazing creature. She's really gorgeous. And btw, I LOVE her outfit and the sheets and coverlet! I feel you kind of went with gender neutral choices , did you keep the gender a surprise? I forget if you said anything about it or not, but either way, I love it when people just do BABY, without gender.
Congratulations, lovely new mommy!

Ooh a cake!

Thank you Manga and thanks Zadzi! Yes- I did go for gender neutral colors... but mostly because I've never been a fan of pink. We didn't keep the gender a surprise-- I like to open at least one or two of my Xmas presents the night before, I always read the spoilers for my favorite tv show.. and I chose to know the gender of my baby as soon as it was discernible. That said, I'm not married to this gender, so if she turns out to be gender amorphous, I'm cool with that. As long as she is happy and healthy.

It really was an amazing process to have my body create and expel this person... and to realize was an individual she is right from the start. It's not that I expected her to be a little mini me.. but she's decidedly not me and she's not her daddy... she's fully herself, and I've had to get to know her the way you would anyone you've only just met. I like her considerably-- and I hope to always do right by her as her mom.

So beautiful Congratulations.

Now we have a little Luna and a big Luna

Congratulations to your little one!

Congratulations Luna! Such a wonderful blessing!!

Indeed it has been interesting over the years seeing people change and grow on this and the previous forums. I only pop in now and then but the fact that this group still exists is pretty amazing.

Wishing you and your new family all the best and so sorry that I was late to the party!

Thank you! Thank you!

Yes, it is amazing to me too that we've gotten to witness our members going through so many changes in life. We literally watched Kathleen grow up. And Nowth.. well she's done a lot of changing. I waited a long time to have a baby, but many others on this forum and the previous incarnations have had children already. I guess that's just life-- we evolve. Most of us would never have met without this place, because we live on different continents or are just in different places in life. It's been a privilege to share a space with all you guys and share our lives and thoughts over the years.

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Thank you! Thank you!

Yes, it is amazing to me too that we've gotten to witness our members going through so many changes in life. We literally watched Kathleen grow up. And Nowth.. well she's done a lot of changing. I waited a long time to have a baby, but many others on this forum and the previous incarnations have had children already. I guess that's just life-- we evolve. Most of us would never have met without this place, because we live on different continents or are just in different places in life. It's been a privilege to share a space with all you guys and share our lives and thoughts over the years.

Hear, hear!

We've been through a lot together over the years.  Heck, the various incarnations of the list have seen me through college, life abroad, a wedding and two kids!  I met my husband through someone I met on the old email list.  My feelings about FQ aside, I get a kick out of the babies and other life events that EQ has helped come to be.

(Luna, any more pictures to share...? )

I haven't been around here much, but I've been "following" baby Luna on Facebook (through her mother of course!) So happy for you and your family, Lunakat!