D turns 14

It's family lore around here that it took five years for you to come. That Mommy & Daddy prayed so hard and - one time - God's gentle voice asked, "What if the person I need is 20 eggs away?" Two years seemed so long then. So many people told us not to worry. Friends had baby after baby and Daddy and I waited. Something that seemed so "easy" and that so many people were so afraid of....we wanted so badly. We kept telling doctors, "We don't just want a baby, we want a family." We saw that many people don't have babies and we started classes to be foster parents, happy that we had a plan. Then, right as the classes ended and we were ready to move on...both lines on the stick turned pink. 

The person God wanted, came.  How can that already be fourteen years ago? 

And as we go through a new form of waiting as a family, how can I forget Mommy's first miracle? You aren't supposed to be here, but you are. All love and deep thoughts and deeper emotions. 

My only prayer today, is that I am here to write a post like this when you are 24 and then 36...

But first, sushi and pie and all of the things you love...

 C & D at the Kesslers' lake house

 D reading to H

 Riley M (Kate's sister) and D (Kinder or First)