Motherhood

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone

I don't know if it's just hormones or the heat, but this whole motherhood thing has got me really emotional. I am soaking in this experience of having a precious little human being in my life so much that I feel I am just oozing with emotion. I can cry at the drop of a hat at the mere thought of how quickly this time is going. She is already 10 months, with under 2 months left of this tender age of - babyhood. And I can barely remember her as a newborn. Which was an unbelievably amazing experience, that rocked our world - that raw and pure newborn stage. When she was brand new to us and we to her. When we brought this tiny being just days old back home with us. Our lives changed forever.

They say you don't know what you are missing. And they're not kidding. If I had known then what I know now, we'd have five more. Okay, well maybe not five, it just sounded good. But the reality is that we weren't ready for a baby for a really long time, weren't even sure we wanted to try. Man, am I glad we did.

Having a baby is a gift. That little girl upstairs who is so dependent on us - our little blessing - she has brought us so much love, and now, I can't imagine my world without her.

 

I guess the point of this post is simply that a day doesn't go by that I don't thank my lucky stars for our baby girl. That I try to take the time to stop and breathe and take it all in, and dance in the middle of the kitchen with her in my arms, and sing and read and play with her. That I have a daughter, a beautiful, healthy and happy little girl, who is going to grow up in our home, her home; that we have so much to look forward to, so many new experiences, stages, and I don't want to forget any of it. I want her to know how loved she is, that we would go to the end of the earth for her. That truly, we love her all the way to the moon --- and back.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. ~ Author Unknown