Dealing with my sweetie has taught me that things in life come in
phases. This is something that some of you may have heard me share
before, but I have decided that I shall share this with the rest of you
in this online world.
Around the time my little girl turned 6
weeks, she became a constant crier, she cried over everything (as I have
read all babies do)...There were the moments that I felt I would never
have made it..that perhaps I was the worlds worst mom since I just
wanted to leave her in her crib and let her cry..i felt that I had no
way of helping her. She would eat and within a few minutes be crying,
changing her diaper was pretty much the only time this little person
would smile and giggle (she enjoys being diaperless)...I had read that
after 6 weeks, the crying starts to come to a close, and so I did my
best to wait it out..the next few weeks seemed like the longest days of
my life. Now, that same little child spends her day "using her words"
and only cries when she is over-tired, starving or hurt.
Moms out there, I know that many of you are thinking over the
many phases of your child(ren) and some are probably even going, you
just wait....but my main focus is not on the fact that my daughter has
some not so glorious moments, but rather the focus is on the fact that good or bad, long or short, life happens in phases.
I find this idea to be particularily comforting currently as my husband works nights, and thus is rarely seen by me or our daughter. For those of you not familiar with the idea of a spouce or parent working nights, he goes to work for 11pm ends shift around 7am and then sleeps till who knows when in the afternoon, 5 days a week. Its quite a long phase we have entered and one that I would never wish upon anyone. Before I drew this conclusion about our life and phases, it was very aggrivating, I wondered what we had done to God to deserve this lifestyle..afterall, were there not any single people out there who could do this, instead of a man with a wife and new child. Now however, I just trust in God, nowing that one day this phase too shall pass.
SO for all off you out there in not so great moments, know that it is just a phase and as with all phases it too shall pass.
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