Classically Abby - 7 AMAZING Things About Being A MOM!

00:00:00.000 Hello Classic Crew and welcome to today's video where I want to talk about seven incredible things

00:00:06.200 about motherhood. If you are new to my channel here we talk about classic living, traditional

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00:00:29.240 articles make sure to head over to classicallyabbie.substack.com. In today's video I want to talk all things

00:00:36.520 motherhood. I feel like lately I've been talking about fashion, I've been talking about dating and

00:00:42.180 relationships, but it's been a little while since we've done a motherhood video here and I am a mother

00:00:47.380 and I absolutely love being a mom. Now my journey wasn't entirely seamless like the very beginning

00:00:53.700 was pretty hard for me and I have videos on my channel here about that and most of that had to

00:00:58.740 do with my son having reflux and it being really painful for him and us adjusting to that, figuring

00:01:03.860 out breastfeeding, figuring out how to get him just on the right track, but now he's doing so well and

00:01:10.800 motherhood is the best thing I've ever done. So I'm really excited to talk about seven amazing things

00:01:18.020 about being a mom because in today's culture there's a lot of conflicting information. Moms are superheroes 1.00

00:01:27.180 but also moms are given the hardest job and not in a good way. Like it's all on moms. Moms have it the 1.00

00:01:34.300 worst. This is the worst thing and you should be a girl boss. You know there's all this information 1.00

00:01:38.720 coming at us about how motherhood is so difficult that it shouldn't even be attempted or that trying

00:01:47.800 to put motherhood ahead of anything else means that the patriarchy is winning and it's such a lie.

00:01:53.780 If all you ever did was be an amazing mother and an amazing wife that would be more than enough. It

00:02:01.380 would be absolutely incredible. So I love talking about motherhood. I want to give you all the strength

00:02:08.380 to love being mothers to if that's what you decide you want to do full-time to know that that is

00:02:14.160 absolutely the best thing you could do with your time and if you are a new mom or if you are about to

00:02:21.800 become a mom I hope that this video makes you excited. I know that for me I was really excited

00:02:28.920 about becoming a mom and then when I initially became a mom it was so difficult that I wasn't

00:02:33.240 really sure where I was going and then I was like oh my gosh this is the best thing ever. So I'm really

00:02:37.900 excited to get into this video so let's just get started. Number one is your baby developing a

00:02:44.400 personality. There is nothing better. As soon as about 10-11 weeks starts to hit your baby is

00:02:51.680 starting to smile at you. Your baby starts kind of interacting a little bit more. Those first three

00:02:57.760 months the baby is a little bit more of a little lump. He's just you know you're there to keep him

00:03:02.520 alive and he's so cute and snuggly but he's not necessarily responding and once your baby starts

00:03:10.300 developing a personality it is just the best. I'm thinking about my son right now crawling on the

00:03:15.660 floor looking back at me laughing and it is it's the most fun seeing how this little person that you

00:03:22.980 made is going to develop. Like how amazing is that? And every kid is so different. I know that

00:03:30.920 my future children are not going to be anything like my son right now and that is so exciting too

00:03:37.260 because nature is so much a part of what these children are. The the unique soul that's within

00:03:43.640 them from God is being realized right in front of you. Like you're learning about this person as they

00:03:50.860 become who they are and it's there's nothing more godly. It's really the best experience and it's so

00:03:58.160 much fun. Number two is baby laughs and baby smiles. When your baby smiles at you when you get your baby to

00:04:06.020 laugh you will not feel anything better in life. Like you are you are going to feel like you are the

00:04:12.660 best person. Like you are hilarious. Like you matter. I mean there is nothing better than when you walk

00:04:20.180 into your baby's room in the morning in the nursery and they give you this big old smile. It is like oh my

00:04:26.660 gosh I I make this person's day. I make this little baby's day. Like that is the coolest thing. Just by

00:04:33.840 being this baby's mom I am making their life better and that is the best. It is so fun. I will do the

00:04:43.560 straight up stupidest things if it means my baby's gonna laugh. I will make the craziest faces. I will 1.00

00:04:49.540 dance like an idiot. There's a reason that mom dances that like as women get older as they become 1.00

00:04:55.460 moms their dancing gets stupider and crazier looking. It's because we spend so much of our time doing that 0.99

00:05:01.300 for our infants to make them laugh that that just becomes normal. I I'm this is my new theory

00:05:06.940 because I will do the stupidest looking dances for my baby and I could not care less because if he 0.98

00:05:14.860 laughs it's because I'm hilarious and I will never feel bad about that. That is the best. So it is truly 0.99

00:05:22.440 an amazing thing when your baby smiles and laughs. Number three is the impulse to become a better person

00:05:29.660 for your child. I don't think I've ever had the same impulse to better myself as I do now for the

00:05:38.680 benefit of my son. Now when I got married I definitely wanted to become better for my husband

00:05:43.840 and that is not to downplay that because I did I do think that over the course of our marriage I have

00:05:49.060 become better with the help of my husband but a lot of that has been through his encouragement

00:05:53.980 and with my son it's my own feeling. I know I need to be better for him. I need to work out so that I

00:06:01.420 can lift him and be strong so that as he gets bigger I can keep up. I need to eat healthier so

00:06:06.440 that my body is healthy so I can be around for him as long as possible. I need to be a better person

00:06:12.140 kinder sweeter more forgiving so that I can be a better mom to him. I need to learn more so that I

00:06:18.320 can answer his questions. All of this is there's nothing that's going to push you to grow more than

00:06:25.080 becoming a mom because you know you need to be the best version of yourself for your child and that's

00:06:32.020 a huge blessing that there is something pushing you to grow and become better and it's this little

00:06:38.580 person that you that you grew and bore. Number four is the feeling of meaning and purpose that comes

00:06:46.180 from being a mom. I think people struggle with existential crises. I know I did when I had like

00:06:52.000 a quarter life crisis when I was 23 when you don't have meaning and purpose in your life. When you have

00:06:59.940 a child the meaning and purpose is so obvious. You can't question it in the same way. Now I'm not

00:07:07.000 saying there aren't days where things don't feel a little bit harder than others but overall your meaning

00:07:12.860 purpose is so clearly defined in raising and cherishing this little person. You know that

00:07:20.020 every single day you're doing something important. You're teaching your baby something. You're feeding

00:07:24.660 him. You're learning. You're going out and playing. You're shepherding him. Like that there is nothing

00:07:32.980 that will give you a more intense feeling of I'm doing something worthy than raising a child and isn't

00:07:40.980 that what it's all about is finding meaning and purpose in life. Having a child is that thing. It

00:07:46.580 gives you the meaning and purpose you're looking for. Number five is seeing your family culture

00:07:52.720 develop. It's an amazing thing when you realize that you are developing what your family is going

00:08:00.740 to believe, is going to think is important, is going to work on and value and cherish as you have

00:08:07.900 children. Your children encourage you to figure out what's valuable to one another and valuable to

00:08:15.140 your family culture. So for example it's very important to me and Jacob that we read and so we

00:08:22.500 read to Mr. Baby all the time. I go to the library with him. Every night we're reading Winnie the Pooh.

00:08:27.580 I've got a bunch of other books and that's something we really want to incorporate into our family

00:08:32.080 culture. It's also very important to us that we get outside and go for walks. So we go for walks with

00:08:37.700 him at least once a day. It's very important that we spend time with our families. So we really make

00:08:42.220 an effort to spend time with both sides of the family so that he knows how important family is.

00:08:48.220 We know how important it is to spend time with our community. So we go to all of our community events

00:08:52.380 and we bring him along so that he sees how important that is. We want to encourage him to love music. So we

00:08:58.260 have music playing all the time. These are things that you develop more once you have children because

00:09:02.080 you want them to be part of your family culture. And that's a really cool thing that you learn

00:09:06.940 as you become a mother. Number six is seeing the world through your baby's eyes.

00:09:13.980 Everything is new for your child. So everything is amazing. One of the things that I've been loving

00:09:20.420 lately is I have this snow globe that is also a music box. And every night I shake up the snow globe

00:09:27.540 and I turn on the music box and we look at the snow and he is so amazed and fascinated by it.

00:09:33.740 And then we dance together. And it's something that I look forward to every night because I see

00:09:38.820 in his eyes the amazement of something as simple to me as a snow globe, but as incredible to him as

00:09:43.700 as something he's never seen before. So seeing the world through your baby's eyes, it really

00:09:48.860 encourages you to be filled with wonder again and not to be cynical because we might be used to

00:09:56.380 everything that we see. We might be over it, but our babies are just learning about it. And if you're

00:10:01.780 cynical, you're going to infuse that into your baby's first introduction to the world. So it's so much

00:10:08.780 more important to look at the world through your baby's eyes and be filled with the wonder of God's

00:10:14.220 creation. Last but not least is number seven. And that is learning in the truest sense about

00:10:20.220 sacrificial love. Of course, when you get married, there's also a sense of that. But when you have a

00:10:25.840 child, it is beyond. You would do absolutely anything for your baby. If the smallest thing,

00:10:31.980 the biggest thing you would do anything to keep them safe, to bring them joy, to protect them,

00:10:38.800 to help them grow and learn. There's so much that you do as a parent that comes at the expense of

00:10:46.940 yourself, but is always worth it. And you would 100% do it again. I sometimes don't get as much

00:10:54.080 work done as I need to in a day. And I don't care because it means that my son had an important

00:11:00.220 learning experience, or he had the cuddles he needed, or he just had a few hours with his mommy

00:11:06.680 that he needed. And that to me is the best, most important thing I can do. You never understand how

00:11:14.520 far you're willing to go until you have a child. It's just so interesting how much you learn about

00:11:20.340 yourself, about your relationships, about your faith, as you become a mom. And that's a really

00:11:25.600 cool thing. So that is today's video. I would love to know if you are a mom, what you think,

00:11:31.500 if you are a new mom, if you're a mom to be, let me know in the comments. I'd love to hear it.

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Classically Abby - December 15, 2022

7 AMAZING Things About Being A MOM!

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