This came to me while watching PTTR on Tuesday... the baby book was so significant to Julie, as mine and my brothers' are to our parents. Please read and review!

Rhyleigh xoxox

Rachel

My darling Rachel,

Not even one day old, and you have already made such a difference in our lives. Your bright blue eyes are identical to your father's, you keep looking around the room, as if you're already observing. I can't believe how, no longer than twenty four hours ago, you were inside me. Already, you are the apple of your daddy's eyes, the princess in your granddad's heart. Nan adores you, but no one can possibly love you more than I do. You're my little girl. no matter how many children Daddy and I have, Rachel, you will be my gorgeous little girl.

You are so alert- you know when we're awake, you know who's holding you. We can't wait until you're older, so we can play as much as you want. But right now, I want to savour my newborn little girl.

We're so inexperienced, your daddy and I. But the moment the doctor placed you in my arms, I knew what to do. I knew how to hold you; I knew how to handle you. Daddy feels the same way- although he will go home tonight and disinfect the car, so we can take you home tomorrow morning. We decorated the small room all for you, with pink paint.

One day, when you're older, I'll read this too you. Your daddy said we're going to read this out at your twenty first, but don't believe him.

You've made us into a family, Rachel. Your dad, me, and you. The three Rafters, ready to face anything life throws at us.

It doesn't matter what, we'll always be there for you, my darling little girl. it doesn't matter what happens, you can always come to your dad and me. There is nothing in this world that can make either of us stop loving you. And one day, you're going to make a beautiful wife for the luckiest boy in the world, darling girl. And we will be there, watching.

You're destined to make the world a better place, my darling.

All the love in the world,

Mummy xxx

Rachel smiled, reading her mother's handwriting. It had been so long ago that she had wrote that, it had been so long since she was a little girl like Ruby. Now she was battling the realities of life- work and her one love, Jake Barton. They were still uncertain where they were heading together, but they knew that, no matter what happened, they would be there for each other.

The baby book resting in her lap was the same book that her mother and father had pulled out at her twenty first birthday party. They had read the letter out, while Rachel blushed. It had been ultimately embarrassing, but, in a way, she had loved it. she had loved hearing her mother's feelings, about the day she was born. She had read it many times, but never understood the full meaning, until hearing her mother and father read it aloud.

She only hoped that one day, she would have the pleasure of writing in her own child's baby book, the pleasure of reading it aloud at their twenty first.