Christmas Joys!

Getreadywithmemamma Christmas joys!!! When your Ruffle Couture scarves, from our very own resident artist Anna Otto, for you and yours comes in the mail you quickly run through the house and pose next to all of the Christmas joys. This year has had its ups and downs as all years as parents of littles will find you. I have learned so much this year about emotional intelligence and parenting. I thought I had a bit of an edge coming in with my background in Speech therapy in undergrad and working with children and adults with developmental disabilities as well as after school kiddos and mothers and infants and fathers 😊💕🤓. I thought I knew some tricks and boy, being a parent of your own kids humbles you, sometimes it brings you down right to your knees in humility. I’ve spent a lot of time revamping how we approach things and I’m soooooo glad I’m married to Brad my hero when it comes to relationships. He is so patient, consistent, and kind. And that my friends, is just with me Hahahaha not even counting all of the nights he’s helped our son find slumberland, or went out to a park to run off our wiggles. When I looked for a partner I really did look for someone who I knew that I could coparent with. Mostly, because I’m pretty sensitive and have pretty low tolerance for selfishness and rash words and actions. It literally sucks the life out of me. So, I needed a partner who could balance me and be kind. I’m just feeling lucky and grateful this year. We have lived through many seasons and parenting has brought us through soooooo much stretching of our personalities and even parenting styles. They say you start to kind of get it when you realize you will never master parenthood, but instead are transformed by it. Be the parent you need to be for your children. This takes so much wisdom, so much grace, lots of oh ohs and whoops. The hardest job I’ve ever had, the most meaningful one as well. I’m grateful for my parents and their trials and mistakes and triumphs. No one said it’d be easy, but I do feel so much more a part of this messy, crazy, uncontrollable, topsy, turvy, fabulous thing that we call life having answered a call to parent.❤️

And yes, we bought Robby’s stocking three years ago hence why it doesn’t match the other two and yes there is a sale going in at Pottery Barn and yes I’m buying a matching one for Robby 🤓❤️.