Babies are a blessing

My baby is a blessing. We prayed for her. We prayed that someday when it was in God's time we'd be blessed with a baby. We were answered with Isla, who is the perfect baby for us. She has taught me so many things already about patience, happiness, attitude, and gratefulness already.

It's so easy to get caught up in the what seems a societal norm of babies cry all the time and they're a burden. I see so many others do it. I know at 4:30 am when Isla fusses because she's lost her paci, and wants her bottom patted for the 8th time that night I even get a little annoyed out of having my sleep disturbed. It's so easy to whine or complain about it, but really I'm blessed. I've been shown several times the past few months that my daughter is a blessing, even when she needs me and is clingy needy she is not a burden.

You know why? It's because I do not look at her like she's a burden. 

I look at her with different eyes, eyes that know that time is so precious. Eyes that know that she is here because the Lord decided to pick us as her parents. She's not just my baby. She's the Lord's baby, first and foremost. At the end of the day, I want to know that I did my best by her. That I did my best to be a Godly example of a selfless mom as much as I can humanly be to her.

Everything I do is dependent on her, and what I do is for her and for our family. If I don't get something done, she's affected. What I say and how I act influence her, even at almost 5 months. One of the things I make sure we do with her every day is tell her we love her, and that she is precious and a blessing to us. It's so important, it's so essential that she knows that she's a blessing. Even when she's crying, or when it's 9:00 and all I want to do is go wash bottles and watch tv, it's so important that she knows that she's more important than that.

People comment on how happy Isla is when they see her or pictures of her smiling, and I like to think it's because she knows she is loved and cherished. We delight in her. We purpose to have the attitude that she is a blessing, and because of our attitudes and our hearts, we don't see her as anything but a blessing.