#Repost @sheis.elle
I remember these days — when we both felt totally out of our element.

I was a first time mother, making it up as I went (actually, I’m still making it up as I go). And you were experiencing life out in the big world — strange sights, sounds, smells.

You were sorting out your dislikes, wants and needs and I was trying to understand what each cry meant.

You struggled to latch and I felt useless. I so badly wanted to help you figure it out but I myself was foreign to it all.

Whenever you woke, you were frightened and alarmed. Whenever I woke, I felt sleep deprived and exhausted.

We were both rookies in unfamiliar territory.

But in the midst of the newness and overwhelm, we also knew we had each other. We needed each other. We loved each other.

And thankfully, as time has continued on, we have become a bit more used to this life-thing together.

And even better, that same love and need for each other has remained until now.

ELLE
@sheis.elle
#realexperience