Summer has arrived! The big kids are here and the circus is in full swing! We spent Friday and Saturday in Galveston and we had such a good time! Any overnight trip with small kids is daunting... We were those people in the hotel lobby carrying what looked like everything we own on a stroller and our backs... kids come with so much stuff. There were tantrums and meltdowns, a million potty breaks, sandy snacks and more joy than you can possibly imagine.
I swam in the ocean for the first time in probably ten years, I mean actually went out into the water until I couldn't touch... For a second I was terrified and then I remembered I'm not six anymore! I looked around and had an overwhelming feeling of promises made good... a year ago I was just about to have Rue, I was tired, uncomfortable and almost constantly having useless contractions... six months ago I was deep in the throes of postpartum depression, struggling to string happy moments together and avoid the darkness in between. But suddenly, here I was in the middle of a beautiful sun shiny day... with a beautiful baby girl who was so worth the trouble I had in those last days of pregnancy, and freedom from the heavy burden of PPD that I'd felt so viscerally just months ago... I was overwhelmed with the changes in my life, the changes in my heart... and so unbelievably grateful in that moment that I cried a bit but I couldn't taste the difference between the salty tears and the salty sea...
"This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life."
Psalms 119:50
XOXO
Miranda
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