Early last week I had this sudden realization that I am a “mom”.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I know. Abby is 22 months old. You would think this would have hit me earlier than now.<\/p>\n
It’s not that I didn’t know I had a baby\/toddler. It’s not that no-one has ever referred to me as a mom (one of the kids at Abby’s daycare calls me “Abby’s mom” every day, so he’s a pretty constant reminder). There’s nothing in my life that doesn’t remind me every single day that Abby is my lovely daughter.<\/p>\n
And yet somehow, in that admitedly early hour, it felt as if the idea had just dawned on me. Maybe it wasn’t so much a realization that I am a mom, but a realization that this really is just the start. And it’s just going to get more real in two more months when I become a mom x 2.<\/p>\n
I remember a friend commenting a few years back that she had been walking through the mall with her two kids and she suddenly realized they they were a no longer a “couple with a baby” but were a “family”. I thought it was an odd statement at the time, but I think I get it now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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