Five Little Monkeys: A Mommy for a Decade

Ten years ago, this sweet baby boy turned me into a mommy.

6 weeks old

I can't believe it's been so long since that morning that he was born. I was 19 and had no idea what I was in for, but somehow I knew it was all good.

My relationship with God then wasn't even very close, but he still gave me comfort throughout my pregnancy and I didn't feel apprehensive or fearful or anything like I would expect a newly married teenager with a newborn to feel. I felt like a mother and knew that this was meant to be. It just felt natural.

God planned it an eternity ago. It may have come about in a way that wasn't how he planned for babies to come, but he knew it would happen.

I can't imagine my children becoming parents so soon in their life, but now I can't imagine me not becoming a mom when I was so young. There's nothing in my life I would enjoy more, at this moment, than being a mom to my children, raising them, training them up, spending so much of our lives together, having such a close relationship.

And it all started with this little blessing.

Me, 20 years old & Christopher, 12 months

It probably helped that God brought me together with the greatest guy to be a dad to our child. I don't know exactly what Chris was thinking when we found out we were expecting, but for me, he was a rock. He was never not calm about it. He was 21 and it was the summer before his senior year in college. I was really scared when we first found out, I was still 18, but that really didn't last that long and Chris was awesome then, and he has been such a great dad and husband ever since.

I look at my first born, my sweet son, and while I know that he must go through trials to grow into a godly man, I pray that he will be strong and faithful like his dad. He's already on his way there.