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The Pondering Mom

I like to say that I'm learning to parent through the Internet.

 

When I first got pregnant with my son (henceforth "Lil' Cub") in 2015, I knew absolutely nothing about young children and was terrified about motherhood.  Would I like my son? How do you hold babies?  And what on earth are you supposed to say to them? What's more is that I'm the first of my friends to have a baby, and my parents don't live nearby, so I often rely on the stories, discoveries, and ponderings of parents online to figure things out.  

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One thing the Internet did not prepare me for, though, is the great sense of awe I would experience as a parent - awe at my son’s first smile, at how fast he’s growing, at how beautiful he looks when asleep; awe at how tired I feel after nursing till dawn, at how I still manage to chase my son around the house after a sleepless night; awe at how my husband has grown as a father; awe at all the awesome/awful products people invent for babies - and in these moments of awe, the only thing I can do is ponder, like the Scriptures say Mary did in the years of Jesus’ infancy.  


This site features my personal ponderings, expressed in the forms of prose, poetry, and product reviews.  It is my attempt join the online conversation that I have up till now only been a passive participant, in the hopes that maybe my ponderings can help someone else learn to parent.

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