What a difference a year makes...

A year ago, Faith learned about Christmas trees for the first time...or at least she learned to identify one. A year ago, Faith new nothing of pumpkins or turkeys or holidays. For that matter, she wasn't trying to talk or playing with baby dolls appropriately. This year, she learned the sign for pumpkin, learned to say Turkey and tonight...hung her first ornaments on the Christmas tree....

MY BABY GIRL!

Sweeter sights have rarely been seen. She saw me hanging them on the tree and she wanted to do it. So I got out her little tree and we hung ornaments, together. Of course, most of the ornaments all ended up on the bottom branches and needed to be rehung but who's counting???? I got a few pics of her, starry eyed at the lights, as she got to participate in her first tree trimming! It reminds me to be so Thankful for my precious daughter. At the wonder of childhood and how she manages to prove everyone wrong! She was so happy and excited at this new experience!

This is ALL I need for Christmas, I am content and thrilled. If this is our life....That's OK! I am so lucky to be able to share these treasured moments with my daughter, things that were not always so easy to imagine in our future. I need nothing else in this life. Things that I wished and hoped for before she was born, they are not always realistic. But I have learned that many of those things don't matter so much, it's the little things that GOD shows me, everyday.

THAT LITTLE THING CALLED FAITH...