Being a mom is a big deal.
It takes a LOT to do this world-changing work and that can leave us feeling grey and lost, especially in the early years.
I can’t personally speak (yet) to how it will be with children who are high school age and beyond, but I would imagine there are similar challenges.
So much to do, so little time, and SO LITTLE SLEEP. This motherhood thing can be exhausting! Praise Jesus for naps, snacks, and coffee.
Those first years can become a tired blur of nursing/bottle feeding, diaper changes, and sleeping, while also trying to keep the laundry somewhat going and meals made. It’s easy to feel like you lost yourself along the way.
There is an interesting phenomenon that happens in the animal world with pink flamingos. The parent birds aren’t always pink.
When they go through the process of having babies and raising them, they lose most of their color and become white.
Once their babies are old enough to start taking care of themselves and don’t require the parents to feed them, the pink color returns to the father and mother flamingos. I won’t go into the science behind this phenomenon, but you can look it up if you want to know more.
All of this to say, mama, in the beginning, MUCH is required of you in every way. And that is how it’s meant to be…it’s good, it’s intense, and it’s only for a season.
After a while, your precious littles begin to do more on their own and space opens up around you and it feels like you can breathe again.
Your “color” will come back! I promise.
I’ve done this baby thing five times and I can tell you from experience, the intensity does settle down and you do “get yourself back.”
The process of this may take varying lengths of time, depending on each one of us and our unique situations, but that “color” of us as individuals DOES return. You will not always feel like a “mom blob” (my own term for how it sometimes feels in the first year, especially early postpartum).
All of those things you liked to do are still there. All those awesome parts of you that seemed to disappear with diapers, feedings, and sleepless nights are still there.
You will return. The draining intensity will not last forever.
The “you” that God created is still there…it actually hasn’t gone anywhere.
As your littles get older and become more themselves, so will you! Only now it will be even richer because of the experiences you now have.
Hold on. You can do this!
Don’t worry mama, you’ll get your pink back.
Xoxoxo
Kristi
P.S. I made a free phone wallpaper just for you! You can save it to your phone here.
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