Heartbeat

Dear Bluebird, Life is unexpected. Some days are hard, the hours trudging one after another. Waiting can feel as long and heavy as a northern winter. But one unexpected day, it will all change. The train will roll into the station and the answer descend. And there you’ll be.  You see, even though I had been longing and praying, my soul asking, I still didn’t expect to get the positive pregnancy test twenty-one months after receiving the first one. It...