Life
I'm thinking about life today. My daughter, Elizabeth Kate, turned one yesterday. She's my fourth. Another milestone birthday come and gone. How does it happen? How does a tiny newborn grow into a tooth-showing, giggly, crawling one year old? Somehow it feels like the time flies even faster with each kid. I remember waking up on the morning of my eldest's first birthday. All of the sudden my baby didn't feel like a baby anymore and I tried to hold back tears. But then I remind myself that though that first year seems to go by so fast, there were long nights, those times when I'd hear a little cry in the dead of night - time to feed again. Yes, we did have long stretches of exhaustion mingled with joy so real it hurt - giggles and tickles and laughter and smiles. On my daughter's birthday yesterday I couldn't help but think about how this day of celebration would be starkly different had she not made it to one year. How would our day have been spent ...