I've got a new attitude

The thing that used to drive me the craziest about my mom was how she always seemed to be so slow at everything. Now, I am becoming my mother. And I'm taking on the one trait that bugged me the absolute most.

But the most amazing thing is that I'm completely aware of it and I'm totally embracing it! And I think I'm finally understanding why she was like that and how she got that way.

Being a slow person when you are the mother of three small children definitely has its purposes. I have found that it helps because I'm going more the speed of the children, so I'm a LOT less likely to be losing my patience with them for their pace with things. (And they like that, too) And it's also come in handy during this learning/adjustment phase after the baby's been born. I've adopted the attitude that I'll just do what I can and that things will just be different, at least until we get past the learning curve. So I'm totally at peace with it; it's been serving me very well. (I have been loving having three!)

Since thinking all of this through, I realized that this has just been carried over from the last months of my pregnancy when my body was imposing on me a slower pace. I think that that was God preparing me to be a mother of three, and I've been thanking him for it.