We are familiar

I sent my friend Stephanie the link to one of my favorite blogs today. This post is a good one - especially when it comes to your baby. Yes, you already love him or her. But when your baby comes and you don't know them - it's tough. Learning their cues, watching their every move, each day marked a learning experience in the life of your son or daughter with you as a mom. Sometimes you feel like you failed. Others you feel like you finally got it right. Then one day it just clicks.

I remember that day for me. It about a week after Finley was born and I was in his room changing his diaper on the dresser. I looked at him and told him I loved him. And I cried. Why? Maybe because I felt like a bad mom for taking so long. Maybe because I knew I meant it and it would be the first of a million times I would say it. It may not have been the first time I had said it about him, but it was the first time I said it to him, looking into his eyes, and meaning every word of it from the bottom of my being. It clicked. This was my son. I was a mama. His mama. For my life and his. He grew inside me and was a part of my everyday, but now it was so different. He was here. I could see him, hear him, touch him, be with him. So wonderful.

For all my soon to be mommy and my will-be-a-mommy-one-day friends I can't wait for you to experience this BIG love. This familiarity.  It's a fabulous feeling.

This photo is from Finley's 3 month photo session with Sara E Rose Photography. We love her. And her work behind the lens.