one.

On November 8, 2009, at 3:45 in the afternoon, at a hospital in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, this happened...

Today, November 8, 2010, a few hours ago in a room in a bungalow in East Nashville, Tennessee, this happened...

It is true. My darling baby boys are one year old today.

This has been the sweetest/longest/shortest/hardest/most heart-achingly beautiful year of my life.

While the Amanda of one month ago would insist on forcefully carving out a chunk of time to write a long post in an effort to articulate the wonder of this day and the past year, the Amanda of right now thinks it's going to have to wait. My boys are waking from their nap, and we're going to play, dang it. We're going to pay until our hearts explode from joy and our faces ache from laughter.

Or until snack time, whichever comes first.