sharing … a joyful time:
My son recently turned 4 years old 🎉 Not sure if I wanted a bunch of 4 year olds running around my house, I decided to bring cupcakes to his Sunday school class instead :-]
I was told to bring enough for 8 kids. I got a dozen cupcakes. Then I saw kid after kid being dropped off O_O
Oh, gosh. I didn’t want anyone to be left out!! Thankfully, only eleven kids showed up, and everyone (including one well-deserved teacher!) happily enjoyed a Super Mario-themed cupcake!
My son had the time of his life 💖 Him being happy makes me happy in a way I never thought possible.
Unlike everyone who told me, “Wow, that went by so fast!” I didn’t think it went by fast at all! Haha Having a child has been the most joyful, yet also the most painful (both physically and emotionally) thing I’ve ever been blessed to do.
Four years has been a long journey of caring, becoming so selfless that I lost myself, learning balance and finding myself again, and having to trust… oh, my goodness… trust so much…
Trust that I was capable of caring for a newborn. Trust that I knew what to do when he got sick at twelve-months old. Trust the ladies at church in the nursery. Trust his teachers at preschool when I left him for the first time… Trust God with all this…
He’s a wonderful child full of curiosity and wonder, and I’m so happy that I was able to raise him in such a way that he is not afraid of the world (I was scared of everything as a child).
He’s also a bit of a joker. When I started dressing him standing up, he’d pretend that his leg missed the pant leg and giggle x-D He’s step over the pants and laugh, then do it like fifty more times haha
Four years. Sigh. I will tell you, it’s easier now that he’s older!
Maybe one day I’ll be frank about the harder parts of motherhood. It’s hard to be honest about this, because the first thing people assume is that you hate your child. That’s probably why only the sweet parts are mentioned, and we (as women) are left to find out the harder parts on our own.
But! I’ll leave on a positive note. Because there are more positives than negatives in this journey of motherhood.
He got a really cool tricycle with rotating back wheels for his birthday. We went to the park so he could ride around. He did, but when he saw a group of kids coming to play, he declared, “We reached our destination!” and hopped off to go play x-D
I’m telling you, he’s great ;-]
Take care,
Dear Quiet
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