tenderness, as if she were the most precious treasure in the world.
“Welcome to this world, my little princess…
Then he kissed her forehead.
Later, when our five daughters entered the ward to meet their little sister, they gathered around the bed.
They whispered excitedly, as if they were afraid of waking up this little miracle.
Our youngest daughter looked at Michael and asked,
“Dad, are you happy now?”
Michael glanced at everyone.
For each in turn.
On his five daughters.
Then on the newborn baby.
And finally at me.
And then he said:
“I’ve never been so rich in my life.
I looked at them and realized that true happiness was never what we had been waiting for all these years.
It has already lived in our house all this time.
It’s just that we were so busy looking for something else that we didn’t even notice it.🙄
