Wee-wind Wednesday: Thanksgiving of 2005

I flashed back this morning to Thanksgivings of the past on my Blog. And I immediately stumbled on this one: Thanksgiving in Chicago. This was 2005, and we were two solid years into our infertility journey. I remember having the Huisman celebration at their church and sitting in a back room and just crying. All of my cousins now had children (and were preparing to have their second) and here we were .... still childless.

I need this reminder. I need to remember, in the throngs of parenting four amazing miracles, how much I begged to not have a quiet house. How every moment is precious. How hard it is to forget the beauty in the madness. I pray I never forget.