As I reflect on my five year wedding anniversary today I can’t help but to think about all the things the Lord has birthed through our marriage. Marriage is a commitment and serious business when you make a covenant with a person you decide to spend your life with.

Months before our daughter’s first birthday, we sat around the table again to have another conversation about wanting to add another addition to our family. As I had already endured childbirth in less than two years, it would be a risk to extend our family with two children under the age of two.