Best Day of My Life

Happy Mother's Day! Today is my first one, although I think we should start counting them when we're pregnant. But that might be a different post.

I keep seeing posts that say "The best day of my life was the day I had you." Or something along those lines. It got me thinking this morning about the best day of my life. It definitely was NOT the day Adah was born. That day was stressful and painful. It didn't go anything like I had planned. I had been in labor for over twenty four hours, I was done and incredibly disappointed that I had to have a c-section. I just wanted to rest and feel like my normal self. I wanted to hold my baby without it hurting. I wanted to enjoy it but I was completely miserable.

For the past four months I have felt like a horrible mom because honestly I didn't really enjoy my child for the first two weeks of her life. I hurt and she was needy, and I had had surgery and just wanted to recover but she needed my attention and a lot of it. But then I started to get stronger, I didn't need someone to bring her to me every time she cried. I could move and bend and cuddle my sweet baby. After the first two weeks I started to really see just how miraculous she really is.

The day she was born was not the best day of my life but it was the day that created the best day of my life. Every day I see her smile and watch her discover the world is the best day of my life. When she laughs and has a smile just for me, that's the best day of my life. When her presence brightens someone's day, that's the best day of my life. So that means yesterday was the best day of my life. Today is the best day of my life, and I'm sure tomorrow will be too.

The day she entered the world wasn't the best for me, but all of the little moments, and instances that I saw God in her little face those were/are the best moments if my life.

I will never be able to thank good enough for the blessing of being Adah Grace's mommy! That's what makes this the best day of my life!