a bigger love

exactly one year ago today, I remember feeling nervous about loving two.

my heart had been knit so closely with the first.

in all the fullness of my heart, i wondered how there could ever be room for another?

after months of waiting and wondering and thinking the whole time that it would be a boy...

and 7 hours of hard work...

God gave me this face...

and that heart that I thought was so full with the love of a daughter 

...grew.

bloomed.

became wider.

and deeper.

and there was love overflowing...enough

for both my girls.

I don't know how, in the wide world, we've made the journey of a year so quickly...

how we've already traversed the path of 365 days together.

it has been so sweet.

so full.

not at all what I imagined.

better.

and although there have been rough days

and I have been stretched thin on time and energy

our family is more beautiful than it was before she drifted our way.

this year, God delivered...

 a bigger love than I thought possible.

happy birthday, Tulip

sweet flower girl...you are my sunshine