The Unexpected Kind of Parenting
Before you become a parent you have visions and dreams of what you want to be as a parent, what you will do with your kids to make special moments memorable, and lots of other things. Or maybe that's just me. When I was three, I knew I wanted to be a stay at home mom (SAHM), so I guess I had plenty of years to vision my life. Now I'm here, been a mom for about six years (I include pregnancy because once you lose babies, you realize you're a mom as soon as you see a positive.). I visioned 2-4 kids (I know, I always debated the amount, I wanted to wait until I found out gender order and decide before I got pregnant with each one. As you can see I had lots of planning into this.) October 4, 2012 we welcomed our firstborn Ellie. I loved being a new mom. It took some time to recover from giving birth (search my blog for all those posts). And before she turned one we got pregnant, miscarried, bought a house, got pregnant, and miscarried again. 2013 was a blur...I reme