“How are you feeling baby girl?” Kristin’s father asked her as he sat down on the bed beside her.

“Daddy?” Kristin asked in amazement.

“Of course,” he laughed. “Who else could it be?”

“I had a baby daddy!” Kristin told him. “Tommy and I had a baby. She’s right over there!”

“I saw her,” he told her. “She’s beautiful.”

“I know,” Kristin said as she gazed over at her daughter.

“Do you want to know why she’s so beautiful?” her father asked her.

“Why?’ Kristin replied.

“She looks exactly like her Mama,” he told her.

Kristin’s heart overflowed with joy at the praise from her father.

“We got married!” Kristin said as a smile spread across her face and she held out her hand to show her father her wedding ring. “Did you know that? Tommy and I got married!”

“Of course I knew, silly girl,” her father told her. “God knows just what we need and He knew that I needed to keep an eye on my little girl so He gave me a special window in heaven so I could see everything perfectly.”

“Really?” Kristin asked.

”Really,” he told her. “Every day I look down on you and your Mama and I pray that you get every wonderful thing you want and deserve.”

“Your prayers weren’t answered,” Kristin sadly told her father.

“Why do you say that?” he asked her. “Look at your life!”

“I don’t have everything I want,” Kristin told him as tears began to cloud her eyes. “I don’t have you.”

“Oh angel,” he said as he wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him.

“I miss you daddy,” she cried softly. “I miss you so much.”

“God loves you very much Kristi Dawn,” he reminded her just as he had a million times when she was a little girl. “And so do I. As long as you remember that I’ll never be very far away. Ok?”

“Yes daddy,” Kristin said as her father stroked her cheek.

“You be a good girl for your Mama,” he told her. “I have to leave now.”

“Can’t you stay a little while longer?” Kristin asked. “Please?”

”No angel, I have to go,” he told her. “Always remember that I’m looking down on you and keeping you safe.”

“I will daddy,” she told him. “I love you!”

“I love you too silly girl,” her father told her with a smile and the glimmer of tears in his eyes. “Goodbye.”

“Goodbye daddy,” Kristin said as he vanished from the room and Kristin felt a cold washcloth being placed on her forehead.

“Kristin,” her mother called to her. “Wake up baby.”

“Huh?” Kristin said as she opened her eyes to see her mother standing over her.

“Welcome back,” Mrs. Yancey told her.

“What do you mean?” Kristin asked. “I didn’t go anywhere!”

“The doctors gave you a little too much medication,” her mother told her. “You’ve been asleep for quite a while.”

“I talked to daddy, Mama.” Kristin told her mother with a smile. “He was sitting right here beside me.”

“Really?” Mrs. Yancy asked her.

“Yes,” Kristin replied.

“That’s wonderful baby,” her mother told her.

“I feel wonderful,” Kristin said with a smile as she stretched her arms over her head.

“I’m glad,” her mother told her with a smile. “You weren’t doing too well earlier so the doctor decided to give you some medication to make you feel better.”

“Where’s my baby?” Kristin asked as she suddenly remembered why she had been given medication. “I want to hold my baby!”

Mrs. Yancey smiled at her daughter before going over to the bassinet and picking up her granddaughter.

“Here you go mommy,” she said as she handed the sleeping child to Kristin. “Now you know why I wanted to keep you close to me for as long as I could.”

Her mother’s words were lost on her. Kristin hardly even noticed when she stepped quietly out of the room and closed the door behind her; the only thing she could see was the angelic face of her baby daughter.

“Hi Jenilea,” Kristin said as she cradled her daughter in her arms. “You are the prettiest little girl I have ever seen!”

Jenilea’s eyes opened in response to her mother’s voice.

“Oh she’s awake now!” Kristin cooed at her daughter. “Did you have a nice little sleep?”

Kristin couldn’t believe how adorable her little girl was as she yawned and poked her little tongue out of her mouth.

“I think I’m going to get rid of daddy’s TV,” Kristin whispered to her daughter as if Tommy was in the room to hear her. “We don’t need it anymore, we can just watch you!”