I want to introduce to you my best friend, who is also my cousin {i know pretty lucky to have family as a best friend huh?} She is REAL and HONEST and an amazing mother, here is her outlook on motherhood….
Meet Caitlin of Cait+Create and her 3 busy boys….
I LOVE being a mother.
I love it.
I feel like I’ve done a lot of really cool things in my life so far.
Things that I loved.
Things that I am proud of.
I feel like I got to really live before I settled down (one of these times I’ll tell you about it).
So being someone who can compare, I can tell you, that this is better.
This is the most amazing, and fulfilling thing I have ever done.
I love being pregnant. Having the ability to create life is something that I treasure. I ache for people who long to and haven’t been able to yet. This is precious.
I remember the moment that we decided to start a family.
I remember each moment when we decided to expand our family.
I distinctly remember the feeling, each time, that it was time for a baby.
Before I had children, I was sure of what kind of mother I would be.
Now that I have children, my views have changed, and it takes constant effort to try to be the kind of mother that I want to be.
More often than not, I don’t know what I’m doing.
I just try to stay pointed in the right direction.
More often than not, I don’t know what I’m doing.
I just try to stay pointed in the right direction.
Loving my children unconditionally is easy.
It’s natural.
Making sure that they always know that, takes work.
It takes balance.
(Pictures by Brittany. August 2010. 38 weeks pregnant with Dalton)In moments like this, I feel connected to heaven.
My precious baby.
The first time I get to look into their little faces is something indescribable.
This is the moment I became a mom.
My precious baby.
The first time I get to look into their little faces is something indescribable.
This is the moment I became a mom.
(The moment they laid Saxon in my arms – August 2006)I love this quote from Marjorie Hinckley:
“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden.I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”
(Holding Bridger at 3 days old-2008)
My life is constantly filled with joy and fear.
I love the little moments with them.
I love looking into their little faces and absorbing every detail.
They grow too fast and I don’t want to miss a moment.
Some days I can’t wait for them to fall asleep, but usually I miss them once they do.
Dalton loves it when I rock him to sleep in the rocking chair.
I could hold him and rock him and stare at him forever.
I am also constantly afraid.
What if they get hurt?
What if they are sad?
What if I mess it all up?
Am I feeding them right?
Am I teaching them enough?
Do they know how much I love them?
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~Abraham Lincoln
I pray for my children everyday.
”Motherhood is more than bearing children. … It is the essence of who we are as women.” – Sheri Dew
Five weeks after Saxon was born, I had to go back to work.
I cried the whole way there.
I felt like I had left my heart behind.
I don’t know what I would have done without the people in my life who were willing to be a “mother” to him while I had to be away. Brittany watched him while I worked and she loved him like her own. That is the essence of motherhood.
“There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child – and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.” ~Robert Brault,
Be sure to head over and become a follower of Cait Create to keep up with this “creative girl stuck in a house full of boys”
Brittany! Oh my goodness, I have so much to say…so I’ll make a list! ;)
a.) I LOVE your new blog look. Seriously, I have some major blog envy right now. The design is just so crisp and clean…but pretty and feminine at the same time. I L-O-V-E it!
b.) All the new items in your shop are DARLING! I pinned all my favorites, so hopefully my husband will get me one for Christmas.
c.) Thank you for introducing me to Cait + Create. This post seriously made me cry. It’s like she took some of the words right out of my mind! Beautifully written.
d.) Thank you for always leaving such sweet comments on my FB. I was talking to Nathan this morning and I was like, “I really don’t think we’re biased in how cute we think Adam is…everyone agrees!”
e.) Love your blog. Love you. The end.
awww.. that’s so sweet!
so beautifully written, thanks for sharing your heart with us Caitlyn! it is so evident that you love your boys, what lucky children they are! xx
I loved being pregnant. It was truly wonderful. I wasn’t sick often, so I know that I had a better experience than many.
I loved feeling him kick and swim inside my belly. I still miss it, three years later.
I loved holding my newborn close to my heart. That was his favorite way to sleep until he was over a year old. He would climb in my lap and lay his head on my chest. I loved snuggling with my small boy. I miss that even more than the kicking.
Now that he’s three, I love how smart he is and how he never stops talking. He remembers everything and is constantly telling me a story about something. He is so imaginative and just a wonderful child.
The best part about motherhood is that no matter how much I miss the stage we’ve grown out of, the new one is just as good.
I love being a mother.
I love this idea so much I blogged about it myself. :) Thanks for the inspiration.
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Beautiful post and It seems your an amazing mother. You have a beautiful family! xoxo
awesome post! what a beautiful family. being a mommy now for 3 months.. man nothing is better!
found you through follow fest & am a new follower! so glad to find you.
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blair
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This post was so beautiful and inspiring! I wasn’t settled when my son was born and we ended up in to shelters due tohorronle circumstances! So when I look back I sometimes feel a lot of guilt because things didn’t go as planned. But today-iammaking up for it! And post like this help people like me move forawrd and inspire! Thank you for sharing! I may borrow a beautiful quiet for my own blog! I’m always looking for something inspiring to keep me moving forward!
So sorry for the typos! :( must not be my day. quiet=quote.
Very interesting points. Thanks!
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