Abby Kate and Her Daddy

There truly is nothing, I mean nothing, that causes love to swell in my heart for my precious husband than watching him with our daughter. They are mesmerizing to watch. She squeals in delight each night he comes home and his smile is always big enough to crack his face. He normally hides and then pops out so she is not only excited but startled...which she loves (not at all my child in that respect). He is always so gracious to take her for the hour before she goes to bed so I can finish dinner, clean the kitchen, get stuff ready for her bath and bedtime. Last night, the house got quiet and I went looking for them. I finally looked out the front door and there they were...both with their shoes and socks off playing in the grass. The lighting was perfect....as if illuminating such a simple but beautiful time between Daddy and daughter. Isn't that the beauty of true fatherhood? Watching them come up with adventures for their children that a mother (or at least this mother) would not think of? I even got my feelings hurt for a few weeks at her attachment to her Daddy. I never get to leave her thus not experiencing that sheer delight at my return. But then I realized what a blessing she had...a true Daddy...not a mere father, that loves her unconditionally, passionately and fully. There is nothing in this life that can bring you closer to your spouse, if you will let it, than sharing such a blinding, deep, crazy love for a child that no one else will feel quite as greatly as the both of you. What a blessing my sweet husband is to both of us!