Oh Boy...It's a GIRL!

It feels like a wave of pink is about to hit our house! I have to admit I feel a teeny bit unprepared for this. For starters, my baby boy experience has been so amazing, joyful and rather easy! But also, I'm not the most girly girl around. I'm not a tomboy, but just not a frilly pink person...at all. I started sorting my baby boy clothes today into these categories: keep, sell, give away and girl. Yes, girl. In my opinion girls can wear blue and green. Not just pink. :) More than colors, obviously, I'm feeling unprepared for the emotions, the drama, the manipulation of sweet innocent fluttering eyelashes that make you melt. After all, I am a girl and I know.

Looking back though, I remember feeling utterly unprepared for my son as well, right up to the moment he was born! At that very moment, all the emotions and the perfection of it all came flooding in and somehow, I knew what to do. It just came naturally. Well, of course a couple weeks later when my mom and my mother-in-law left and my husband went back to work and I was alone with this screaming newborn for the first time, I remember crying "I don't know what to do!!" Those moments happen. But I've never experienced the meaning of "grace for the moment" more vividly than with parenting. God's grace truly is enough, but it usually doesn't come until you need it!

So I'm anticipating this new season of changes and new experiences with the coming of a little baby girl...and a little more pink than I'm used to.