When people think and talk baby, often times the phrase 'eat, sleep, poop' comes up. Right now? It's more like cryeatcrypoopeatcrycrysleepcry.
When the grittier, colic-y times of parenting a newborn strike and I feel like I can't see the light at the end of the 3-month-mark tunnel (sleep deprivation is torture), I nearly always turn to John Lennon for solace and perspective.
'Say a little prayer
that every day
in every way
it's getting better and better.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
beautiful boy.' *
And as Lennon laments what a 'hard row to hoe' life can be...
I find my perspective.
And a few moments of peace and joy in my sweet, crying-for-3-hours-straight-through-her-tummy-pain girl.
As she offers up her first smiles to me, I'm reminded what a beautiful road it is traveling together as parent and child.
*Song 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' written/performed by John Lennon
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