4am

At 4am a year ago, today, my water broke.

And life has been extraordinarily different since then!

Thank you to everyone who's helped make the first year of my munchkin's life so wonderful.

It's amazing how fast time flies by.

Thank you for driving me to the hospital so early in the morning.
Thank you for cracking jokes and making me laugh.
Thank you for watching over me and making sure the doctors and nurses were doing a good job.
Thank you for holding my hair back as I was contracting and throwing up at the same time.
Thank you for offering to get me McDonalds. I know I was mean and told you just what I'd do with that McDonalds if you kept talking about it, but I really did appreciate the thought.
Thank you for giving me my epidural at 1.5 centimeters.
Thank you for doing my epidural shot so nicely that it didn't hurt.
Thank you for the itty bitty ice bits to help with the intense thirst.
Thank you for talking to me on my cell phone in the labor room.
Thank you for giving me oxygen when the baby and I needed it.
Thank you for holding my hand.
Thank you for flying into town to help.
Thank you for cutting the umbilical cord and giving our daughter her cute bellybutton.
Thank you for spending two nights with me in the hospital.
Thank you for sleeping in a chair.
Thank you for sending me flowers.
Thank you for calling.
Thank you for coming and visiting me in the hospital.
Thank you for making me laugh when I was still in so much pain.
Thank you for being healthy.
Thank you for watching over all the tests that were being done on the baby.
Thank you for telling me I looked wonderful when I know I looked like hell.
Thank you for bringing me food that wasn't hospital food.
Thank you for taking pictures.
Thank you for everything.

But especially, to my daughter, thank you for being the most precious thing I could have ever hoped for to grace my life. Happy 1st birthday.