When we found out our sixth child was going to be a girl, my husband burst into tears and said one sentence that still echoes in my ears to this day.

The youngest looked at Michael and asked:

“Dad, are you happy now?”

Michael looked at all of them. One by one. At his five daughters, then at the newborn, then at me.

And he said:

“I have never been this rich.”

I looked at them and understood that real happiness had never been what we were waiting for.

It had already been living in our home for years.

We had simply been too busy searching for something else to notice it.