A Long Awaited Day

The past few years Mother's Day has been a little bittersweet. Of course it is always a special day to celebrate the special women in my life. My mother and grandmother have both been such wonderful role models to me of what a godly mother should look like. At the same time though it was also a painful reminder of what my heart longed so deeply for but did not yet have. Last year we had just gone through our first IVF cycle and learned a couple months before that it did not work. What a different Mothers Day this one was! This year I got to hold my baby girl in my arms and celebrate my first Mother's Day with Ava Kate. We also got to dedicate her at church Sunday morning and she wanted to be sure to be noticed- she screamed through the whole thing. It was a very special day!