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“My! My! Time flies!”

-Enya

“Rejoice!”

-Christmas

Oh 2013! Oh Christmas! Oh dreams! Oh luck.

Walk into the yellow room, now a nursery, to a baby sprawled out and smiling in her crib. Overwhelming excitement to see me. A grin a mile wide. An face exploding with joy when she lays eyes on her daddy. Amazing.

Dreams, dreams, dreams.

Feeding and holding the baby while the radio plays the Christmas (Nativity?) story. Still and silence and sucking and snuggles. Struck by a sense of reality, gratitude. This is it. This is really real.

This is amazing.

Over the rivers and through the snow to Grandma and Grandpa’s house we go. It’s scary to think what the next Christmas might hold. But for now we’re happy and grateful to spend time with family, and will take what we can get.

My family. Our little family. Growing growing growing.

This is year 16 of updating on Christmas Eve, and this year is the first with our daughter here. Our funny, beautiful, healthy daughter.

We are so very lucky and glad. I hope you all are too. Rejoice!

And of course…I wrote this all this morning before a poopsplosion-y, cranky (all of us), angsty evening…but it’s still all true 🙂

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