Motherhood is: joy and pain, mingled together in a mess of marvelous. It is heart-wrenching and holy. It is the happiest you’ve ever been. It is pure exhaustion. It is knowing, off the top of your head, what is on his will-eat list right now. It is keeping track of shoe sizes. It is your heart walking around this world outside of your body... forever. It is Goldfish crackers and Cheerios always on the van floor. It is putting them to bed with a sigh of relief and immediately missing them (so you end up scrolling through pictures of them on your phone😆) It is being the one who gets to see, enjoy, and remember all of somebody’s “firsts.”

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