As I sit my weary self down to type this out, Townes (who is now four months old) has finally decided to surrender to sleep after a grueling hour-long episode of wailing, kicking and rejecting what her tired little body so desperately needed. Yes, the newborn days are behind us, but this is where we are today: hastily attempting to connect my feelings and thoughts to adequate words in between the fits and starts of nap time. …
I have heard many describe new motherhood as the “most” of everything. For me, in my 9 short weeks of experience, being a mother has been the most beautiful, most exhausting, most testing, most hilarious, most humbling, most emotional, most transformative, most haphazard, most sacrificial, most meaningful, most intriguing journey into a new layer of my life, my marriage, and the new life God has blessed us with, our daughter Townes.
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