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I promise this will be worth it.
Who’s with me?
...just as you are. ?
I don’t want to nurse another baby—I want to go back to the last time I nursed my baby boy and savor the moment.
...because the world is so big and you’re so small, and I worry. A lot.
It costs nothing, and takes only moments a day.
“I am confident and growing in my parenting role.”
If I had known what sleep deprivation really felt like before I had kids… ?
2. Carpe Diem every moment. Just worry about carpe diem-ing some moments. All? Not doable.
Tonight was a seemingly typical night in our house. It was not out of the ordinary. And yet, it was also monumental.
4. If I get dressed and put on makeup I'm going to go somewhere.
While you were sleeping, I just stared at you, in awe, that something so perfect could come from me. ?
More cooperation and connection are around the corner.
It’s overwhelming to have another person so completely dependent on you for everything, all of the time.
The voice you need to listen to is your own.
You would make any mama proud, parading around in that thing like you were born in it.
And I want them back as the mom I am today—slightly more stable and sane, with some idea of what I’m doing.
It’s the love that makes it the best and hardest, the scariest and the most beautiful. ?
I’ve given up assuming blame or insinuating wrong doing for simply living my life and being who I am.
6. If it incites decision angst, drop it
