as very few of you may know, simply due to my lack of social media the past nine months or more, we are the lucky parents of a baby boy! seriously, how lucky are we to have gotten our pair?! matthew and i always talked about wanting a boy and a girl but we also said that if we got another girl, wed be just as happy because murphy was and is such a blessing. but here we are. our sweet boy and girl. we are truly blessed!
some may wonder “are you excited about having a boy”? im not going to lie to you, its different. i love it, i love being his mom, i love being a boy mom, but i think just being a mom to another baby is different and hard. you have nine months to prepare for having another baby but i think in our circumstances (thats going to be a whole other post), it was hard because it was just me and murphy together all the time. i wasnt in the headspace of welcoming another baby into the house when i couldnt think about anyone but me and my girl.
with all of that said, monroe is a sweet, loving, good sleeping baby. his personality is 100% different from murphys and our life with him compared to when we just had murphy is completely different but it’s love regardless. is sweet face lights up my world and i look forward to seeing him every morning when he wakes up. murphy loves him more than anything and is looking at me greatly to see how to love him well. the family is adjusting to say the least but we are working on it. as i type this, i have immense mom-guilt because i had both babies to myself tonight and forgot to brush murphys teeth before putting her to bed. i got overwhelmed because monroe was ready to go to bed at the same time as murphy so in a rush to get her to bed (that alone kills me with guilt often), i dropped the ball on the teeth brushing. so with that said, talk about adjusting!
matthew has been so amazing with murphy during this time because most of my time has been directed to monroe so hes been super-dad to her.
with all of this said, the family is well. we are a wonderful, happy family of four that have to much love. we are grateful for our health, the roof over our head, the food we are able to eat and the love that we have.
mk