Motherhood stretches and grows a person more than anything else in life. This year has taught me some things that I am sure any mothers out there can also relate to!
Motherhood pushes us to grow in ways we never would’ve thought. It is so important for us to sit and reflect on the ways we’ve grown! My dad used to tell us, when we went hiking, to look back at how far we’ve hiked instead of how much farther we have to go.
This is a post about reflections of motherhood.
Reflections of Motherhood
Motherhood is a unique experience in the learning department. You can feel like you know so much and know absolutely nothing, all at the same time! There is so much stretching, learning, growing, trying, retrying, in motherhood. It is something that has pushed me past my limits more than anything else in my life. And yet, so often because of how common motherhood is, we act like it’s an everyday thing like learning learning to swim or something.
I remember praying since I was a child that God would remember me in motherhood. That someday, He would give me children and allow me to experience children. Now, years down the road, I have not one but TWO beautiful children! So many times, I can barely believe it! How did I get so blessed?
Being a mother is one of the biggest and greatest blessings in life. To have the privilege to raise a little soul, is one of my favorite things. Watching them learn, watching them grow, all the things they learn from day to day. The way they figure out the world around. It truly is a gift!
However, while motherhood is such a blessing and a gift, it is HARD. There is no simple way around it. Motherhood is hardest job out there. It demands of you like no other job ever will. It is a 24/7 job that doesn’t ever end, only evolves. Once you are a mother, you will always be one. Even when your children are adults and are parents of their own, you will still be “on-call” for them. You will feel their pain as your own, you will still be watching them grow. It demands of you physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually to the max.
The year 2025 was a hard one for me as a mother. I found out I was expecting our second child on December 31, 2024. So I went in the New Year with pregnancy. That pregnancy was a hard one in comparison to my first. I was very sick for the first half and in a lot of pain the second half. It was a very hard 9 months. After the baby was born, we had a rough postpartum dealing with acid reflux. She screamed 24/7 for the first month and it nearly broke both me and my husband. Even when things settled down after getting her treated, she still wakes up a couple times per night currently. Until this week, she was still in our room. All this meant I had her with me round the clock. I don’t know about any other moms, but I do not do well at all when I have my kids in my room and not sleeping through the night. I find that I am not all the wife or mother I want to be!
All of this to say, as hard as 2025 was with pregnancy and postpartum and a difficult newborn, I would do it again to have my precious baby girl. She is the sweetest little blessing and truly a very happy baby. Her sister is so in love with her and absolutely LOVES having a younger sister. They are already best of friends and it melts my heart to see them. Hard? 1000%. Would I do it again? Also, 1000%.
Motherhood is truly a GIFT.
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