When I first wrote the title to this post I started listing all the "mommy duties" in my head; dirty diapers, cleaning up messes, meals, human jungle gym, play buddy, ouchy kisser.. the list could go on and on. But the real reason I write this post is to release my recent feelings for my life as a stay at home mom.
To sum it all up I would use the words blessed and satisfied. I am at a spot in life where daily I am so full of joy and content doing the things God has called me to do. In my last post I was super excited to share with everyone that I would be opening up a shop on etsy but the Lord has changed my heart about this. Over the weekend I was praying about everything while I scurrying around finishing up necklaces, trying to get pictures taken of everything, and finalizing a license for my digital projects and I was just feeling so overwhelmed and burdened by it all. My photos weren't turning out like I had hoped and the license process wasn't going smoothly and more than anything I was not enjoying it. I felt like the doors were slowly being closed and I am ok with that. Today I felt the need to put everything away and when I did I felt such a relief and a peace that my job in this season of life is to be a wife to Tyler and a mommy to Cade. I'm still going to enjoy being creative and making earrings, necklaces, scarves and scrapbooking, but I don't need the burden of keeping things in stock to sell. If those blog readers of mine out there want me to make you something I would still LOVE to do it just like I always have, but for now you won't find my stuff on etsy.
With that said I can now brag on my son! It seems like in the last month he has just taken off in all areas of his development. Because of this if feels like our lives have become much more relaxed. Some of Cade's accomplishes:
For a long time Cade wouldn't go down the stairs in our house by himself because they are abnormally steep, we have recently taught him how to go down them by himself and we no longer have to use the gate. It is so nice to have him be able to roam up and down as he pleases without Tyler or I needing to be upstairs when he is up or down when he is down.
Another accomplishment is getting rid of his paci. Thursday was the official night of taking it away. I had read the book The Sleepeasy Solution and was all prepared for the steps to take, but I stressed and worried about it all week and when Thursday finally came around I was dreading bed time. But Cade proved to us it was time to give it up, he only cried for 30 min before he soothed himself to sleep. The next day for his nap he only cried for about 5 min and ever since then he has just laid down and been totally fine without it! All my worrying for nothing!
Cade's vocabulary has just taken off as well. He is starting to put words together like "over here" he uses this a lot. The other day I had him in his chair for lunch and kept saying down, down. So I took him out of his chair and he immediately ran over to the living room coffee table and said "over here" and pointed to the table so to see if he really knew what he wanted to put his plate on the coffee table and he eat every last bit of his lunch! Little smarty pants! Some other phrases he is saying are "wheres daddy" and "where's mama".
We are now working on colors. The past 2 days we have been focusing on blue and green and so far he is doing amazing. He has over sized keys that are blue, green and orange and he I can ask him which one is blue or which one is green and he will point to the right one!
Having a toddler is so much fun, I just get overwhelmed by how fast he is growing and I don't want to miss a second of it!
To sum it all up I would use the words blessed and satisfied. I am at a spot in life where daily I am so full of joy and content doing the things God has called me to do. In my last post I was super excited to share with everyone that I would be opening up a shop on etsy but the Lord has changed my heart about this. Over the weekend I was praying about everything while I scurrying around finishing up necklaces, trying to get pictures taken of everything, and finalizing a license for my digital projects and I was just feeling so overwhelmed and burdened by it all. My photos weren't turning out like I had hoped and the license process wasn't going smoothly and more than anything I was not enjoying it. I felt like the doors were slowly being closed and I am ok with that. Today I felt the need to put everything away and when I did I felt such a relief and a peace that my job in this season of life is to be a wife to Tyler and a mommy to Cade. I'm still going to enjoy being creative and making earrings, necklaces, scarves and scrapbooking, but I don't need the burden of keeping things in stock to sell. If those blog readers of mine out there want me to make you something I would still LOVE to do it just like I always have, but for now you won't find my stuff on etsy.
With that said I can now brag on my son! It seems like in the last month he has just taken off in all areas of his development. Because of this if feels like our lives have become much more relaxed. Some of Cade's accomplishes:
For a long time Cade wouldn't go down the stairs in our house by himself because they are abnormally steep, we have recently taught him how to go down them by himself and we no longer have to use the gate. It is so nice to have him be able to roam up and down as he pleases without Tyler or I needing to be upstairs when he is up or down when he is down.
Another accomplishment is getting rid of his paci. Thursday was the official night of taking it away. I had read the book The Sleepeasy Solution and was all prepared for the steps to take, but I stressed and worried about it all week and when Thursday finally came around I was dreading bed time. But Cade proved to us it was time to give it up, he only cried for 30 min before he soothed himself to sleep. The next day for his nap he only cried for about 5 min and ever since then he has just laid down and been totally fine without it! All my worrying for nothing!
Cade's vocabulary has just taken off as well. He is starting to put words together like "over here" he uses this a lot. The other day I had him in his chair for lunch and kept saying down, down. So I took him out of his chair and he immediately ran over to the living room coffee table and said "over here" and pointed to the table so to see if he really knew what he wanted to put his plate on the coffee table and he eat every last bit of his lunch! Little smarty pants! Some other phrases he is saying are "wheres daddy" and "where's mama".
We are now working on colors. The past 2 days we have been focusing on blue and green and so far he is doing amazing. He has over sized keys that are blue, green and orange and he I can ask him which one is blue or which one is green and he will point to the right one!
Having a toddler is so much fun, I just get overwhelmed by how fast he is growing and I don't want to miss a second of it!
2 comments:
Great post Megan! So exciting to hear what the Lord's been teaching you and what the future holds!
I love it when we allow God to lead and He shows us where He wants us. Nice listening Megs:-). I love hearing about Mr. Smarty Pants (we have a book called Princess Smarty Pants). This is such a short season of life and I'm so glad you get to enjoy it!
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