How can you not love her?
Scarlett seriously grows overnight. I wake up in the morning to find bigger feet, bigger hands, and poopier diapers--on Scarlett that is; I stopped using diapers...yesterday. Kidding aside, she is our angel baby. She started sleeping through the night at a "young age", was a good eater to begin with (otherwise I might have given up on the whole nursing thing), and is a very mellow/happy baby. God must have known Scarlett would be an only child if she was a difficult child...
I thought being a parent would be more of a burden, but instead I know this is where I am supposed to be. Very cliche to say but true. I've only felt that at one other time in my life--when I decided to go to BYU. (Wow, if I said that to myself 6 years ago I would have punched my conversewearingseminaryditchingthoughtIwassupercool self in the face.) Actually, it wasn't until I moved to Provo that I felt that way. I kicked and screamed all the way there. Just ask my parents.
Towards the end, I had many teachers there that asked me what I was going to do since I wasn't going through the BFA program like all my classmates (got my BA instead and graduated a little sooner so we could come to Portland). I always hesitated to answer that I was going to be a mom. I obviously wasn't pregnant at the time. I got some weird looks, disappointed looks, and outright you're-wasting-your-talent looks.
I wouldn't trade back my stretched out belly, my clothes and bed that have been pooped on (again, not by me), my once clean and organized house, the several hours a day that are now spent feeding, or my BA that never got put to the test in a "real" job. It's amazing how something so little changes your life forever. I take one look at Scarlett and know that I never wasted anything.
Happy 3 months, Little.
*posted 7-12-2010 10:26 AM
5 comments:
Very well said! Being a mom is the most important and amazing thing any woman could do.
Awwww, very sweet. Glad to know I'm not the only one who feels this way (about BYU too--I swore I never would go there and it ended being the only school I applied to).
So sweet, but so true! All you have to do is look at your sleeping baby and know it's right. Your little baby is so cute! I was looking at her pictures, and then thinking about Niko and it makes me feel like those baby days were SO long ago!! It'll go by fast, I know everyone says that haha, but it's true!!
Cute post! Scarlett sounds like a dream. Maybe she could teach Ronin how to sleep through the night!
Ps- I would have loved to have met the conversewearingseminaryditchingthoughtIwassupercoolJulie!
All I have to say is AMEN! I just said to Nola today "I love being your mommy". Best thing ever. Even a better than being a wife. Don't tell Devin I said that.
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