Thoughts on Motherhood

There are no words to really describe the excitement that I feel about being a mother...It is the most amazing experiance to know that this precious child depends on you to feed her, love her, keep her safe and keep her warm! I enjoy those middle of the night feedings...Because Jaelynn and I are alone in a quite world and the stars are beautiful! Looking in her eyes I see the miracle of this precious life and as she smiles and I see her big dimples I am reminded how much I love my husband. Anxiously I await the day that I can begin to teach her to count, say her abc's and show her how incredible of an artist God truly is as we admire the Iris' in Ammas yard, see the silly baby chicks at Grandmas house and gasp as we watch the lightning on a cold rainy morning. Every night as we kiss her goodnight and everymorning as she wakes up singing I am thankful for the precious gift God has entrusted to me! I am fascinated at her love for music and art already! And thank goodness for the life saving "soothie", better known to the rest of you as a pacifier! Yes, it isn't all peaches and cream all the time...there are those nights that I get absolutely no sleep at all and moments where I feel hopeless because I am not sure what to do, but we get through it and I am that much more prepared the next time it happens and hope that after a sleepless night that I may be able to catch a power nap the next day! To sum it all up! I love being a mother...and I am thankful for all the amazing examples of good mothers I have had in my life, especially my own mother!