I always knew I’d love my baby but loving being a mom has been the surprise
Independent and fast paced is how I’ve always functioned.
Having a baby would slow my natural cadence and limit my independence I knew, because suddenly there would be a tiny human biologically dependent on me.
But his dependence actually came as a sweet and unexpected gift to learn a new pace, a new rhythm, a new ‘Mer’ that I didn’t know was inside of me.
Never realizing how fiercely independent I was until Jack was born, I have certainly felt the pinch & growing pains of this new season.
But nothing has been lost.
I didn’t lose my independence to motherhood.
I didn’t lose myself in becoming a mom.
Nothing was taken away from me.
It’s changed and shifted, old parts of me have fallen away & new parts of me I didn’t even know existed have emergence in new & beautiful ways.
I always knew I’d love my baby but loving being a mom has been the surprise
