- having a beautiful day today with jeff, lea, and bissen
- lots of laundry done today
- realizing how much sleep can make a difference in life
- jeff's attentiveness
- having our bed back
nugget: for a long time now i've been disappointed with myself with how ungraceful i was with becoming a mother; from the pregnancy troubles and hardships, the emergency birth, the post partum, and general struggle with figuring it all out. but i have since realized that i never sought out to be just a good mom. my goal has been to be an amazing mom, wife, and woman; to defy everything i had as an example and be the mom i wish i had. break the mold. i went into this wanting to grow instantly into this image of a mom that i never knew, but believed in. my expectation of myself was to know how to be this person solely with the understanding of what NOT to do based on my own experiences. building my own family by becoming the antithesis of my immediate family. and do this without any support from my own blood. that's a huge pill to swallow. yet, now that my baby is a toddler, and i'm sleeping again i look at her, myself, and my husband and see that i have become that woman, that wife, that mom in my head. i still have bad days, but i am starting to realize i have actually surpassed my own expectations. on my good days i am far greater a person than i thought possible.
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