In His hands

Posted on Feb 1, 2013 in Marriage & Family | 4 comments

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I sit here tonight, currently holding my precious little boy in my lap as I write this.

Actually, most of these posts are written with him in my lap or beside me in his swing.

It is amazing all the things we do together.

It wasn’t until last night that Josh and I had our first date without Micah. Thanks to some good friends for offering to watch him, or we would have just taken him out to eat with us… again. :)

We had a great time. Just talking without interruption (almost forgot what that was like!) and we even reminisced and played Josh’s “question game” (see previous post).

But we missed Micah. He is part of our family now and it felt like someone was missing the whole time.

People have given us lots of advice. On parenting. On marriage. On marriage, while being parents. And they always make sure to remind us to “still make time for each other” now that we have a baby. I’m sure this will become more important the older Micah gets. But right now, he is much more of an addition to our family than a distraction. He brings us more laughter, more smiles, more empathy for others with children, more surprises (for sure!) and just an overwhelming feeling of love.

He is a living example of Josh and I’s love for each other.

How amazing is that?

And our love overflows into our child. He is loved so much.

It’s hard not to feel worried sometimes that we will do something wrong as parents. I begin worrying when I see others share how their child is sleeping through the night or eating baby food like it’s candy or growing in the 90th percentile for their age. It’s hard not to compare.

But then I remind myself that women have been doing this for ages. How did Eve do it? How did Mary do it? It somehow comforts me to know they didn’t read Babywise.

Advice is good. Even extremely helpful at times. But there are some things in life that just need to rest in the hands of our Savior.

And I believe children are one of them.

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please pray for Micah as we go back to Shands on Monday for his heart checkup! thank you so much.

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  • LindsyGriffis

    I love this. So much. I was recently asked for advice from someone who is expecting her first and I told her my main advice is, DON’T LISTEN TO ALL THE ADVICE. ;-) God gives Mama a unique intuition for her own baby. I really believe that. Nothing like parenthood to keep us on our knees.

    And oh my goodness, I didn’t know about Micah’s heart condition. I am definitely praying. A girl I went to highschool with has a daughter that had the same thing. She had surgery I believe around 6 months old sometime? And she just turned one and is absolutely perfect. Praying for the same results for you, friend. I can only imagine an anxious Mama’s heart dealing with these things. Wish I could be down there to give you a hug!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/megpowell Megan Powell

    Such a great post! It is so hard to fight the temptation to compare. I am terrible about it. This is such a great reminder, thank you for sharing your heart! I constantly remind myself that women have been raising babies for centuries and didn’t make it as complicated as we do. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/mindys2 Mindy Brown

    Cassidy, Derek and i felt the same way the first time we went with out him. I thought I was going to spend a whole night not even thinking about him,but we actually good part of the time talking about Gavin. I missed him like crazy. Every times we give him to my parents to take care of so we can do something or be alone with each other Gavin is all ways missed. It has gotten better as far as talking about other things now, but I always seem to think about him one way or other.

  • http://twitter.com/johannaprice Johanna Price

    What a beautiful picture of love. We felt the same way when Harry first came home. We didn’t want to be away from him. We still feel that way most of the time. Most. :)