The Dream

We are just a little past 14 weeks pregnant. Up until this point, I've dreamed about our children in cloudy dreams with vague faces and muted scenes. Last night that all changed as I had the most vivid dream and one of our children was laying right next to me. It was so real. Then, the other was handed to me in my arms. I lived in this dream world for couldn't have been more than a minute, but in that minute I touched and held our children. And then I woke up. I was so taken by this experience that a million thoughts burst into my head and I couldn't return to sleep.