10 Things I Have Learned In the Last Year!

So this idea did not just come to me in my sleep....I totally stole it from a friend off FB!  THANKS JASON!

10 things I have learned in the last year

1.) How to be a mommy.  Any woman can be a mother, changing dirty diapers, feeding babies who need to be fed, dressing babies in clothes, giving baths (ok...maybe not every woman can be a mother!).  But it takes a special woman to be a mommy.  Someone who gets up early in the morning to have coffee so by the time her baby/child is awake she is dressed and ready to hit the floor playing.  Someone who plays peek a boo for hours just because it makes him laugh.  Someone who lives for bath time at night because her baby loves playing in water.  Someone who will act the total fool all to hear her baby laugh.  Everyday is not easy but I love being a mommy to Harper!  He feels my life with so much love and laughter (such a cliche I know!)!

2.) That I am the perfect mommy for my child.  As hard as things become sometimes and despite the monster mommy who occasionally comes out for a visit I have learned that I am the best mother for my child.  Despite all the "you arent doing it correctly" or "I dont do it like that" or "really you do that" I have come to realize that no other woman could be the type of mother that my child needs.  God knew this little bit of information and totally blessed me with Harper!

3.) As a mommy, it is A OK to ask for help!  NO ONE IS SUPER MOM!  NOT EVEN ME! I know thats hard for all of you to stomach!  HA!  I tried for months to do it.  ALL the laundry, ALL the house work, ALL of my school work, taking care of ALL Harper's needs...and guess what? I FAILED!  I hated asking for help becasue I always felt like I was failing and letting everyone in my life down.  I had help OFFERED FREELY to me but  I turned it down consistently.  But then I started realizing that I was not failing and that asking for help is ok! 

4.) Time really does fly by!  You always know that time seems to go faster the older you get.  However, until you have a child I dont think you truly understand this.  Harper is almost a year old now and that is so hard to believe because it seems like I was just preggo with him!  The time old saying is absolutely true "love them now becasue they grow up too fast!"

5.) Material things and wants are not important what so ever.  Through the last years staying home with my baby I have longed to have so many things (in reality we have way more than most do).  Then one day it hit me that I have an amazing husband who allows me to stay home with our child and everything I cannot "have" is totally worth it.  Maybe those things will come, maybe they wont but regardless I am totally blessed beyond what I deserve!

6.) Making friends is absolutely necessary in the game of motherhood!  I have learned this more recently than ever.  I love EACH AND EVERY ONE OF MY FRIENDS.  But my newer friends who are mommies with children around Harper's age are an amazing benefit to my circle of friends.  They have helped guide me through many "mothering" experiences!

7.) A prayer partner is essential in life!  Through reading the book "The Power of a Praying Wife" God revealed to me that I needed a prayer partner.  Someone who I could be totally, completely open and honest with.  After a few prayers asking Him who that should be He totally led me to the most amazing prayer partner ever!  Thanks (she knows who she is...cant reveal her name, she knows too many embarrassing things about me now!)!  She has become an amazing friend already and I know that without a doubt in my mind I can trust her no matter what!

8.) GOLF IS HARD!  It is probably one of the most challenging things I have ever done (besides being a wife and mother)!  I guess I thought I would walk out there, pick up a club, and hit the ball like a pro.  GUESS WHAT?  I STINK at it!  A few weeks ago I honestly thought about dropping the class and quitting...but I didnt.  Im glad I didnt...even though I am totally awful at it I have so much fun laughing at myself hitting dirt!  :)

9.) I actually enjoy running.  I kept saying I hated it and I would never like it but I do!  I did hate it to begin with but now it has gotten a little easier and I and thoroughly enjoying it!

10.) (This one is so not serious and a little funny)  The Nook Color is an AMAZING INVENTION!  I should have bought one of these a LONG TIME AGO (Ok correction my mommy should have gotten me one of these things a long time ago being as she got me this one!).  It has totally saved my life.  Yes its an ereader but it does SO MUCH MORE!  My entire life is on there.  Now to get Christopher to get me a cover for it and ill be set! (Seriously the covers for those things are EXPENSIVE!)