Four Stockings

Looking at this mantel fills me with emotion. At night when my children are asleep, I sit on my couch, by my Christmas tree, and stare at these four stockings. I am so profoundly grateful for this new family God gave me. I look back on this past year; how it much harder it was to conceive, and how tumultuous my pregnancy with the Hyperemesis, pre-term labor complications and bed rest. Sometimes I can't believe she is finally here. Ella completes us. She is my ultimate prize, and great reward.