Beau Taylor Smith was born on Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 2:48PM CST at Maple Grove Hospital in Maple Grove, Minnesota.
The Beginning
The day before Beau was born, I had my Mom, Twila, Aunts, TC and Janny and the Tavernier girls over to watch the Viking-Packers football game at our home on Marshall. Despite the third trimester being extremely uncomfortable, physically, it was best day I had for a few months. My Aunts made cheese dip generously with jalapeños. My Mom was following me around like a little puppy dog and pleading with me to take some castor oil so her grand-baby would share the same birthday her. Me ever so annoyed with her, I told my Mom over and over again that God would decide when my little boy would come. Sadly, little did I know what God had in store for my 49-year-old mother 1 year later.
On that day, I was two days shy from my due date of October, 25th. I was dead set not giving into my mother’s ideas, but I was just as anxious as her. I wanted to meet the being that curled up into a ball {only on the left side of my belly}; the one I fell in love with from the very beginning, the exact moment I found out I was pregnant — sitting on our master bathroom toilet.
