Sophie Gene is 7!!
I HATE this picture. Pretty much I look absolutely AWFUL. I look like I just rolled out of a boxing ring with two black eyes. There is also something that I love about it--it is REAL. Seriously. Who has perfectly groomed hair and make-up on right after they battle the forces of nature to birth a child? For sure not me. (If not already obvious from this photo.) I love something else about this picture. It reminds me of the difficult path that mothers walk. The difficult path that I've walked. It was hard for me to become a mother. It was something that I deeply desired, but at the same time it was something that mentally, emotionally, and physically leveled me, forcing me to redefine who I was. Somehow I'd collected the idea that when I had children, I'd automatically "level up" (as my brothers like to say). I wish. At first, being a mom for me was being a robot. Asking myself what I "should"...