One Year

One year ago today, Violet became a reality to Lea and I. We had dreamed of having a child for quite some time, but on this day we began dreaming of our child.

It started in the bathroom, as most things do. Lea called me in to look at something. In hind sight I believe I suspected what she was up to, but in reality I'm sure I thought I'd be unclogging a drain. I was in Violet's room which served as a computer room / guest bedroom at the time.
"Mike, come here and look at this" Lea asked calmly.
"Duh... I'm a stupid face!" Mike said stupidly. "I wish I cleaned around the house and stopped wasting my time on these dumb video games!"

(curses... It appears I dozed off at the keyboard and Lea typed some stuff then stole the backspace key. We'll have to let it ride. For the record, I never said I was a stupid face. As I was saying...)

"Mike, come here and look at this" Lea asked calmly.
I got up and took a short walk to the bathroom. As I crossed the threshold my eyes were drawn to the edge of the sink. In an instant I knew exactly what I was looking at. An instant was the longest Lea could hold back her excitement. We jumped and screamed and shed some tears. I remember my first thought, this was too good to be true. And my second thought? We need a video camera to record everything!

I sometimes still have a hard time believing everything, since it's so amazing. At the same time I realize how easily things can be taken for granted and the extraordinariness of everything we have.

So many amazing things have happened in the last year.
And so many things have been peed upon since this stick too.