How Time Flies

I just realized that exactly eleven months ago right this minute, I had been a Mommy for a little over five hours. Wow. Where has the time gone?

I remember feeling scared, overwhelmed, exhausted and absolutely elated all at the same time. After 30 hours of labor and an emergency C-section, I am surprised that I can remember feeling anything at all!

I look at the picture above (which Phillip snapped of Jack just as they separated him from me for the first time in almost ten months) and I can hardly believe that cold, tiny, screaming, terrified little baby is the same healthy, happy, confident, loving and curious little boy that I just rocked to sleep about ten minutes ago - all 25 pounds of him!

I am so overcome with emotion when I think back over the past eleven months. Motherhood is so very different than I had imagined, and so very much more wonderful. I feel like I am finally fulfilling God's purpose for me in this life, and I don't take that purpose lightly. I can't believe that Phillip & I have been trusted with such goodness and innocence - and I pray daily for the strength and wisdom to raise Jack in such a way that he will daily choose to seek God's will in his life. Maybe you could pray that for me too.

Thanks to all of you who are reading and sharing in this journey with us. The Momarazzi is grateful!