A Decade: for my daughter, on her tenth birthday...

One decade ago today, I had my first child.

I expected a boy.  SHE was not a boy.

When they handed her to me; this tiny bundle, pink cheeked and dark eyed,  I experienced an instant and total change of heart.  I looked up at the doctor with conviction, almost in effort to say, 

"I meant to do that".   

She was, as it turns out, the very thing I'd wanted all along. 

No one moves me the way that she does.