Overwhelmed and underwhelmed and everything in between at the moment. I want to write a novel tonight, but I just don’t have it in me. Being a new mommy is the very best thing and one of the hardest things at the same time.

It’s just started to thunder outside, and the wind is howling in that perfect, Summer rainstorm kind of way. I’d go play in it if I had the energy.

Henry is peacefully asleep in his crib and has been for two hours. He is a tiny little slice of perfection in my world. I’m so thankful to have him, and to have the privilege of loving him day in and day out.

Traipsed around town shopping for cute little boy clothes with Mom/Grandma K today, got my hair cut and colored this afternoon, and tried a new recipe for dinner–the highlights of my day. But emotions are running high tonight, I’m too tired to be awake and too awake to be asleep, and I think I’ve tipped the scales on the sleep deprivation meter.

Welcome, mommyhood. And so it goes.

It’s no wonder God made babies so irresistibly cute and wonderful–even in our most challenging moments, we can’t help but love them to bits.

pound it, mom. the high five is SO last decade.

sleepy boy.

even exhausted, i’m smitten,

mm