For the Love of Being a Mom.
12:06 PMA lot of mom posts and my posts as well.. are normally about how crazy mom life can be.
Because that is the truth, being a mom is hard.
But it is also great. I wanted to take this post with a different spin today.
I would like to tell you all the reasons why I love being a mom and all the great things it comes with.
Let's take a break from all the craziness today.
First off- a lot of you may know because I've mentioned it before, I did not want kids.
I didn't even want to be anyones wife. I never had dreams of my dream wedding, the perfect guy, or family life. My dreams where of partying while backpacking across Europe.
I'll still backpack one day, though. And I'll be with my awesome little family instead of binge drinking or smoking by myself haha.
Anyway, I didn't have those type of dreams, but that is what I have in real life.
I met an absolutely wonderful man and we have an absolutely wonderful, growing family.
And then one day I woke up with a horrible fever or as we know it baby fever. *insert giggles here*
So, while in Greece we made a plan on when to start trying for a baby in a couple of months. Then about a week after we were home we found out I was actually already 5-6 weeks pregnant.
Now looking back maybe my body was telling me "Hey, girl... you're pregnant! You won't know for another month so I'm just going to do a little mind inception of you wanting a baby." Obviously in Tom Hardy's voice because he was the star in that movie, right?
Anyway..
I remember being very calm about becoming a mom. I was a little worried about having post partum depression because I have really crazy anxiety, but that was it. It didn't hit me how my life would change until she got here.
It has been filled with so many learning experiences, so much laughter, so much tears, and so much sleepless nights. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.
No longer being grossed out by bodily functions. - When my brother was born and I was 18 years old I would almost throw up every time he spit up on me. Even then I said "I wasn't cut out for being a mom because I'd be sick all the time" haha. Now I'm like "Is this poop or food?" *sniffs*
There was also a time we had to take her to the ER just a couple of days after we brought her home (she was dehydrated from her whole jaundice fiasco) and as soon as she got enough liquids in her.. she pooped absolutely everywhere. And no matter how fast we tried to clean it more just kept coming. I laughed so hard I needed a wheel chair to get out of there.
**I had a c-section. Laughing and c-sections do not mix.
The love they show you.
You child has no idea how bad you are feeling about yourself sometimes. How if you are wondering if you are doing everything you can for them. They show you the most unconditional love and you can see it in their eyes. To know that even if you do something stupid or if you messed up that day and they will STILL look at you like that- it is magical. And it's something I deeply cherish.
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