Well, you all know the big news now: Willow is going to have a baby brother or sister soon.
The baby is due at the end of May. We don't know the gender yet, but we're going to find out soon. Cherish and I will let everyone know what we're expecting.
Now I have to be honest with you. I'm on a roller coaster of emotions here. My hormones are dipping and rising as fast as Cherish's are right now. Of course I'm happy to have another child on the way. I can't be happier, really, but on some days, when I'm having a tough time with Willow, I get tired.
"Oh, my God! There are going to be two of these things running around soon!"
I feel like collapsing and just staying there, prone on the floor, sleeping for a very long time.
Of course, I don't know what I'm in for, but if I don't get too wrapped up in the running-around-and-chasing-the-toddler-and-her-baby-sibling thinking, and accentuate the positive, I can fend off those tired thoughts.
Willow is a good and caring person, and her light shines in my life as brightly as her mother's. I'm sure the next kiddo is going to have a similar brightness, and I will be a better person for it.
Let me relay to you a story from Willow and I leaving the YMCA today:
As we headed for the door, Willow took the time to hug a little boy, then she went up to every person in the play area, kid or adult, and said "bye-bye" to them. Then she said "bye" to every person we met on the way out of the building. She nor I knew any of these people, but they each warranted a special gesture from my little girl.
If Willow weren't in my life, I wouldn't have looked a singled one of these special strangers in the eye; I'd look down and huff on by. But because of my toddler girl, I made eye contact with each of them, and I smiled.
My day was better for it. I was better for it. And I'm sure each of these folks was touched in some way. Even the grumpy-looking ones.
You might think this is a very tiny thing to have happened to me, but it isn't. This was a very big thing. I have grown.
Because of Willow.
As for now, I only can imagine how Willow's sibling is going to affect my life, and the lives of others.
But I'm imagining big, big things ahead.
The baby is due at the end of May. We don't know the gender yet, but we're going to find out soon. Cherish and I will let everyone know what we're expecting.
Now I have to be honest with you. I'm on a roller coaster of emotions here. My hormones are dipping and rising as fast as Cherish's are right now. Of course I'm happy to have another child on the way. I can't be happier, really, but on some days, when I'm having a tough time with Willow, I get tired.
"Oh, my God! There are going to be two of these things running around soon!"
I feel like collapsing and just staying there, prone on the floor, sleeping for a very long time.
Of course, I don't know what I'm in for, but if I don't get too wrapped up in the running-around-and-chasing-the-toddler-and-her-baby-sibling thinking, and accentuate the positive, I can fend off those tired thoughts.
Willow is a good and caring person, and her light shines in my life as brightly as her mother's. I'm sure the next kiddo is going to have a similar brightness, and I will be a better person for it.
Let me relay to you a story from Willow and I leaving the YMCA today:
As we headed for the door, Willow took the time to hug a little boy, then she went up to every person in the play area, kid or adult, and said "bye-bye" to them. Then she said "bye" to every person we met on the way out of the building. She nor I knew any of these people, but they each warranted a special gesture from my little girl.
If Willow weren't in my life, I wouldn't have looked a singled one of these special strangers in the eye; I'd look down and huff on by. But because of my toddler girl, I made eye contact with each of them, and I smiled.
My day was better for it. I was better for it. And I'm sure each of these folks was touched in some way. Even the grumpy-looking ones.
You might think this is a very tiny thing to have happened to me, but it isn't. This was a very big thing. I have grown.
Because of Willow.
As for now, I only can imagine how Willow's sibling is going to affect my life, and the lives of others.
But I'm imagining big, big things ahead.
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