“It’s still extremely surreal to think that in three days our baby girl is due to come into the world, due to make her appearance into my passionate, colorful Italian family. She is due to make an appearance into a home with a man who was born to be her father because the minute I met him, I secretly wished he had been mine. Is that weird? I’m so excited for our baby girl. She’s the luckiest little sparkle about to emerge into a home I have always wanted to create for her and what I know my husband is dying to give her.
For me, pre-mammahood has been a collection of many emotions, experiences and clumsy moments, all beautiful and all very magical…even the times I had a melt down when nothing was melting. Imagine learning about yourself all over again, peeling off layers of what you had no idea existed? For me, pre-mammahood has been just that, finding delicious layers all over again and remembering things I thought I no longer really needed, like honest, true patience (I’m talking the real deal here) and knitting with my mom and just taking a moment to stop and really smell the flowers because they are heavenly.
Pre-mammahood has been a preparation of keeping my baby warm, keeping my heart full and keeping my craft basket full of plans, ideas and my baby’s blue prints. Danny, my husband and I want her to be funny and have the kind of goodness in her soul that I’ve been trying to craft together for thirty three years. And as she moves inside me at this very moment I can truly say that this pregnancy has been the best thing about me, about my whole life and about my entire relationship with Danny. It’s so beautiful to think that with creating a life I’m also creating a rebirth for myself, for our new home and for what’s to be of our new found little tripod. We can’t wait to meet this baby.”- Mother Maria
