Motherhood...

I am just 6 weeks away from my due date.  Our little girl is almost here and I will get the chance to mother another little one.  

I just talked to a friend yesterday who is about to have her first baby.  We chatted about what it's really like at the beginning and all of the challenges and unexpected parts of motherhood.  How it's a hard transition trying to figure out how to care for a baby but also who you are as a mother.  There is a lot of joy in there too.  Joy that this little person is mine and I get to help him grow but it was hard too.


It's going to be different this time because I've done it all once before.  But I still can't help being a little nervous about the transition to two.  One lesson I don't want to forget from the first is the magic of motherhood. 

With all of the hard things a baby or toddler bring to your life (you know what they are), it's sometimes hard to keep a happy attitude about the whole thing.  It's easy to get bogged down and frustrated that Leo won't eat anything, or that he shouts amen at church like a Baptist, or that he spilled his milk all over the newly cleaned floor.  I guess it's a shift in the mom because a child is never going to be perfect (nor should we expect that).  It's about me finding the humor or joy in the situation.  Or sitting down to make a mess with him.  It's taking that extra moment to look in his eyes and say I love you.

When our new little girl arrives, I want to find the special and the magic in this new miracle that's coming to our lives.  As I sit here, she's happily kicking away and I can't wait to be a mother again.