I originally posted this on my last (very out-of-date) blog, My Life Commentary , on Wednesday, September 26, 2012. It was published about a month and a half before my first child was born. As I was lying in bed, I realized I’m kind of in my own personal season of advent. I grew up in a church that followed and celebrated seasons, one of them being advent. It’s a period of time where we’re waiting, anticipating the arrival of Christ. This morning, I realized how different that advent would have been for Mary than it was for me. Growing