The First Post Ever
This brand-new endeavor is coming right at the same time that my youngest is being born. I officially have 3 kids.
In the midst of this absolute chaos, I need a reprieve. I need to remember why I do this, and I need to feel like the lessons that I’m learning are perhaps worth sharing. And frankly, I need accountability to continue leaning on Jesus and the Holy Spirit because parenting is tough. It’s rewarding, but it’s tough.
Parenthood has taught me that something can be so difficult and so good at the same time. I can be so in love and utterly frustrated at the same time. These emotions don’t contradict each other but rather exist simultaneously. Both feelings are real and valid.
It starts from the very beginning, doesn’t it? I got pregnant, and I was beyond excited, but then immediately, I was hit with morning sickness that made me want to sit in bed all day. So there’s the juxtaposition. On the one hand, I’m excited to be pregnant, and on the other hand, I’m not excited to be pregnant because it sucks to feel sick.
I could go on and on. I am learning that each stage of motherhood has good parts and other parts, just like the rest of life.
However, in the good and the bad, God is present and with us every step of the way. He wants us to rely on him. He wants us to look at him in the hard times and the good times. He wants to do this life with us, and ultimately, we are doing this life for him, so we might as well include him.
I’m getting severely off-topic.
This blog is my collection of thoughts that come from someone who is in the trenches and very much in over their head. To maintain some form of sanity, I started this project to help myself, and if it helps others, that would be an amazing bonus. My brain works better when I write something out. If I don’t write it out, it either gets immediately forgotten or it gets stuck on a loop inside my head, and I won’t be able to think of anything else. Between doctor’s appointments, extracurricular schedules, meal plans, and housework, I don’t have the brain capacity for things to get stuck in my head.
However, my prayer in sharing these thoughts and lessons with the world is that mothers would understand a few things.
- You are not alone.
- This stuff is really, really hard.
- God called us to Motherhood.
- God will be glorified in your motherhood.
- Motherhood is the highest calling.
Thanks for making it this far!
