Greatly Loved

I lived an incredible day today. I experienced love. I felt love today. I sensed it. Acceptance. Strength. Safety. Desire. Covering. Loyalty. Appreciation. Encouragement. Needed. Valued. Truth. Lies displaced. Beauty. Tears. Laughter. Peace. Joy.

Just to hear it... choose to believe it.

Thank you friends/family/sisters.  I am loved by you.

Sweet Baby Love

There's always more to say than I generally have time for... probably the reason posts are infrequent. I realize this has potential to change. I am that agent of change.

Currently my husband is downstairs making breakfast for a friend who will be arriving to shower forth congratulations. We haven't seen him for about a year. It will be good to see him.

Currently my first born child is at a friend's home. She slept over last night. A mark of growth.

Currently my second born is SLEEPING. A mark of the miraculous that is still VERY much alive and well in the earth today.

Currently my unborn child is moving around inutero. And is yet unnamed. We found out yesterday that this beautiful, healthy (very, perfectly healthy) unborn child is a girl.

It was quite a shock to my husband and to my first born. A tad disappointing perhaps? My second born was thrilled. Ecstatic. Joyful. Delighted. I am so very well pleased, of course.

I feel like I'm falling in love - again. It's such a beautiful feeling - so worth a post - to know I will have another daughter. My husband has launched into the world of baby name searching. We didn't have a single girl's name picked out. Not a single one. Unless you consider the one boy's name we had talked about liking that could also be a girl's name (and we DO like it for a girl's name). I'm all about names and their meanings. My other two girls were named via meaning first. The perfect, fabulous names came secondly.

So now... who is this little girl? What will she be like? What do I feel when I think of this little angel, this little treasure inside?

Maybe we ought to call her Love. Sweet Baby Love.

Sweet Week

Ah. What a wonderful week and weekend that has just carried me with its passing. Sisters. Blessings. Father. God. Beauty. Music. Lunch dates. Divine. Connected. Cookies. Sisters. Rain. Sick husband - boo, powering through it - hurrah. Sweet things. Trader Joe's. Chatting. Talking. Listening. Music. Rain. Laughter. More laughter. Hot tea. New shoes! Friends. Tears. Laughter. Banana Bread! More laughter. Lists. Worship. Work. Frustrations. Elations. Happy. Sad. Mostly happy. More rain. Cold. More cold. Walks. Dead bird. Laughter. Miscommunication. Prayers. More Laughter. Music.

Candy & cupcakes & plastic & playdough. Grass. Rabbits. Goats. Roosters. Pig. Brief sun shine. Rain. Sons. Daughters. Neighbors. More neighbors. Music. More music. Death. Resurrection. Dye. Eggs and egg salad sandwiches. Daughters. Chipmunks. Hot tea. Loads upon loads of laundry. Sisters. Sighs. Smiles. Marriage. LOVE.

Our Love.

He's the man who makes me smile. Really smile. The times keep getting better. Our time gets better, we learn more about each other, we enjoy each other more and more. I love saying that. Simply love it. Love him. We are lovers.