Grace in Small Things: #8

sleeping newborn

I need to write, but I’ve been choosing sleep.

I don’t know what to say anyway.

I need to write about Ethan’s birth, because I think it’s a story that needs to be shared. I need to write about this first week, because I need to make some sense of it. I need to remember all this by writing about it here, but that will have to wait.

For now, a gratitude list:

  1. Newborn smell.
  2. Little boys who have become big brothers and really, really like helping.
  3. Sisters who never fail to step up.
  4. Husbands who get it.
  5. Peri bottles. (What? Whoever invented these deserves an award.)

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In other news, I’ve got a post up at Just.Be.Enough today. It’s about feeling like I’m not as much of a mom as those who take care of two kids on their own. I wrote it before Ethan was born and I’m not sure how I feel about this now, but it’s still something I’m pondering. Come read