Dear Margot: Before You Become a Big Sister

My Dear, Sweet Margot

It's hard to believe that in just four weeks or so you are going to be a big sister! What exciting changes are in store for all of us! I can't wait to see you interact with your baby brother. I know it will be an adjustment for you (and me), but I am confident that you are going to become a wonderful big sister. You already have such a compassionate heart and an eagerness for helping mommy and daddy.

These past two years with you as my first and only baby have been so sweet. Yes, there have been growing pains (I can hear you now asking what those are), but all good things come with growing pains. You have enriched my life and brought me more joy than I could have thought possible. To see you make discoveries, to hear you process your thoughts, and to watch your personality develop fill my heart with indescribable joy. Sometimes I just look at you in wonder and awe and think I can't believe she's mine. I can't believe I get to be her mom

It's bittersweet to imagine the changes ahead. Sweet, because I am so excited to meet your brother and to become a family of four; bitter because the time of you being my only baby is about to come to an end. It won't just be mommy and Margot anymore, and there are growing pains with that change too.

My attention will be divided in a new way. But I want you to know--and never doubt--my my love will never divide; it will only multiply. My love for you won't change. Even so, my love won't be perfect. I will fail and not always be the mom I should be. But I want you to know--and never doubt--the love of Jesus for you will always be perfect and He will never fail you. As much as I love you, he loves you so much more.Your mind is sharp and filled with curiosity and I love to see how you figure things out. But you will never be able to completely comprehend the love that God has for you.You inherited a bit of your dad's tendency to be hard on yourself when you make a mistake, and sometimes you might be tempted to think that you can't possibly be loved. But this simply isn't true. God's love for you existed before you ever got anything right, and it will continue and remain even when you and the world around you gets things wrong. Accept that you are loved!

You will always be the one who made me a mom. Even as I try to teach you, you have been my teacher in so many ways. You teach me to slow down and be present in the moment. You teach me that there is joy in finding a rock, an acorn, a stick. You teach me to say yes to truly living. You teach me that love gives, and gives, and gives.

I love you, my Favorite Girl!

Love,
Mommy