The Difference A Year Makes...

I was on Facebook today during one of Evan's naps, and happened to look over at the right sidebar where they list statuses from last year.  My status on September 7, 2010, was this: "Patience is a hard lesson to learn."  Immediately I was taken back to those days, just 365 days ago, when I was facing my biggest struggle to date - waiting on God's timing for a baby.  Little did I know then that the very next month we'd be getting the wonderful news I'd been longing for...and that in a year the baby I had prayed for would be upstairs sleeping in his crib.  It's hard to believe how long those months seemed as I waited - it felt like they dragged on forever!  But the year since has flown by in a whirlwind of change...first all the changes that come with pregnancy, and now the incredible changes that parenthood brings.  A year ago, all I could do was hold the hope of a baby in my heart...now I can hold our baby in my arms.  One year ago, Evan was a long-held dream...now he's a precious reality.  Evan is living proof that God's plan and timing are perfect...and so worth the wait.