January 2015 Moms
LadyXaverian
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S/O "Just Wait"
LadyXaverian
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Like most of you, "just wait" makes my skin crawl. It's the least helpful, least encouraging bit of "wisdom".
This blog entry is awesome, though, and it makes me tear up (or sometimes ugly cry, depending on what kind of day I'm having) every time I read it.
So, STM+, do you have an positive "Just Waits" to share?
ETA: @musicfanatic I want to tag you since you started the other thread. 
Our sweet girl is 3!
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Re: S/O "Just Wait"
Just wait until LO says "I love you," "I want a hug," or "Bless you, Mommy" when you sneeze.
This is a great article, and I love the idea or focusing on the positive.
Just wait for the morning you go get him/her from the crib and you hear "hi mommy!"
Just wait until your child pulls you up to go play a game or build something with them.
Just wait for more love than you knew could exist!
Just wait until your little one starts reaching different milestones and learning new things. My DS just recently started clapping, waving goodbye and playing "so big"- it's the best! My heart swells with so much pride with each and every one of his tiny accomplishments. The amount of joy and excitement my sweet boy brings me everyday is indescribable. Being a mom is amazing- you just wait!
Just wait until the first time your little baby comforts you. Amazing.
Just wait until you see your husband, parents, siblings, etc. with your little one. Truly heartwarming.
Just wait until you get to share traditions, games, toys and locations you loved in your childhood with your little one and it feels like you are living your childhood and his/hers all at once.
Being a mom is the most amazing, difficult, rewarding, enriching and wonderful experience. Just wait.
GREAT thread, thank you.
Just wait until they pick you a bouquet of pretty flowers (dandelions) when you take them outside to play.
Just wait until they start drawing pictures and telling you the story of what is going on in the picture.
Just wait until they take the hand of a younger sibling who is just learning to walk and patiently walk with them.
Just wait until you catch them "reading" a book that they have memorized to a younger sibling or stuffed animal. I walked back the hallway one evening and found both my boys snuggled in my bed, the older one repeating the Very Hungry Caterpillar to his little brother.
Just wait until you take them to their first movie at the theater and they think it's the coolest thing ever.
you hear that very first cry!
The first time they fall asleep in your arms!
Watching them try lemon for the very first time!! Or jello!
When they first start to babble!
Every single day you get to spend with the best thing(s) you've ever accomplished in your life!
Also wait until you feel like you are failing and then you end up being the only person to get the baby to calm down. You will feel so extremely triumphant.
just wait until you hold him up against your chest and you breathe deep that first whiff of baby-smell. OMG. (that one sounds a little creepy, but seriously...baby smell.)
just wait till, when your little baby is a "big boy" (like, 3+), and you go to check on him before going to bed, and you see the baby once again, and can't resist kissing that round cheek while he sleeps.
just wait till you see his face when he takes his first steps, or goes down a slide for the first time, or goes for his first swing on a real swing set. just wait for all those firsts and milestones. you'll be just as excited as he is.
and personally, even though i'm a STM, i'm all teary and everything thinking of this:
i never got to see LH with DS...watching SO cultivate a father-son relationship with DS over the past three years has been amazing, but i've still never gotten to see that picture of the man i love with the baby he helped create cradled against him, and i've longed for it. that may be what i'm looking forward to the most.
and all the unbolded is awesome too...especially the "bless you" part, just because you kind of expect to hear "i love you" and "can i have a hug" at some point, but those other cute moments catch you a little more off-guard.
oh, and just wait till the first time you hear your baby fart while napping over the monitor. it's so cute and funny at the same time. lol
edited for clarification.
BFP#1 EDD 04.20.2010, SUNSHINE baby boy born 03.31.2010
BFP#2 EDD 12.07.2014, natural mc 04.09.2014 at 5w3d
BFP#3 EDD 01.14.15, RAINBOW baby girl born 01.16.2015
jan'15 january siggy challenge: baby fails
As a STM, it made my day to read through so many of these Just You Wait's. I'd forgotten about some of them. Can't wait to do it all over again!
Just wait - until LO figures out that some little thing they do make you giggle & then does it constantly just to put a smile on your face!!
Just wait - until you find yourself checking on your LO every night when they're sleeping. At first, it's because you want to make sure they're still breathing, but then later, because you just need that last little fix of cuteness before you go to bed yourself!
Just wait - until your own vocabulary (or pet's name) changes because that's how they say it. (Daycare's cat is Zoe, but it's since been changed to Yo-Yo because that's how DS says it)
Just wait...
Until you hold this tiny being and are completely overcome with a love like you have never known.
Until you will give up sleep just to watch this beautiful little creature sleep.
Until you are the only one who can comfort them or calm them.
Until they light up just because you walked into the room.
Until you are overcome with pride when they accomplish something new.
Until you hear that little voice.
Until they can say Mama.
Until they curl into you when they are sleeping and you feel as content and happy as you could ever possibly feel.
Until they can wrap chubby arms around your neck and give you a hug.
Until they can say I love you back.
Until they start drawing you pictures of the two of you together.
Until they become these wonderful little people right before your eyes and you are so full of pride that you get choked up.
Seriously, it is the most wonderful, wonderful thing to get to be a mother. They trust you so much, love you so much, need you so much. There are hard days for sure but when it comes down to it there is nothing that I value more than my sweet girl and there is nothing that has ever made me feel as complete, as happy or as truly myself as being her mom.