.Loved Relentlessly.

Well, it’s taken me much longer this time around to sit down and write my third child’s birth story. I wonder why? Haha... These past almost-15-weeks have been filled to the brim with the antics of certain 4 and 2 year olds, changing lots and lots and lots (and lots) of dirty diapers, not very much sleep until recently, and so many sweet baby snuggles. It’s been both a challenge and a blessing to “go backwards”, as it were. We had kind of gotten past the baby stage and had enjoyed two whole years of both of our kids sleeping through the night in their own rooms (!!). So this transition has been sweet, fun, hard, exhausting, crazy, and all kinds of other adjectives my brain can’t think of right now. :) Sunday, October 15 was David’s due date. We went to church that morning and I started having contractions during the service...not painful ones, but enough to get my attention. They continued through lunch, so Dan and I decided we should go get checked out before leav

Well, we made it.   Again .  David was born on October 17, and here we are on January 27.  We have officially survived The Fourth Trimester* for a third time. On this side of it I am both extremely relieved and a bit sad.  The first few months of my babies' lives have never been my favorite, as anyone who knows me has heard me talk about.  But overall David has been the ideal newborn...so to see his first 3 months pass so quickly has been bittersweet.  Or maybe it's that the third time around you really do realize that it goes so stinking' fast . Am I thankful for lots of good sleep lately?  For sure.  Did I cry as I packed away the 0-3 month clothes?  Also for sure. Anyway...here are some things I journaled during the first three months to pass along to any mama who finds herself also living through the Fourth Trimester with 3-under-5.  It's a little intense, a little scary, a little fun, and a whole lot of beautiful. #1 - Lower your expectations before y