Kate Wicker

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Small Successes 12

1. We had our baby!!!

2. My older daughters are just tickled pink with their baby sister (nearly literally since X chromosomes are winning out around here) and are proving to be perfect, little mothers-in-training.

3. My milk came in on Tuesday, and Mary Elizabeth is an adept milk monger. Last night she had her first big non-meconium poop (it had taken her longer than my other children to get her indoor plumbing working) and when my preschooler saw her soiled diaper and how happy her dad and I were, she exclaimed, “This is just like Christmas morning!”

Share (and celebrate) your own and other moms’ small successes at Faith & Family Live!

*This will be my last post until the Easter season begins as I’m fasting from blogging in honor of the holy Triduum and to fully enjoy our growing family. May you all experience the profound joy of Easter! Blessings!

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· April 9, 2009 · Tagged With: Mom Humor · Filed Under: Child 3, Small Successes

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  1. Megan@SortaCrunchy says

    April 9, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    Just like Christmas morning! HA! I love it! This post makes my heart so happy and I think my uterus just jumped a little. OH, how I love the power and passion of those early newborn days.

    Good on you for the blog fast. Enjoy every minute of this babymoon and may you know Christ more fully with each passing day.

    Blessings on you, Kate!

  2. EChristyBA says

    April 9, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    Oh, congratulations – just like Christmas morning, indeed. Bless you and your grwoing family.

  3. Denn Mom says

    April 9, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Congratulations, Kate! What a wonderful “small” success list for the week. I just love how kids make us laugh like that, too. :) God bless you and your new bundle!

  4. ViolinMama says

    April 9, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    HAHA~ LOVE the Christmas morning bit. What a gift though!!!! Blessings to your family! Loved reading this!!

  5. Kati says

    April 9, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    Congrats! Christmas morning, thats great! Some day they, too, will know what a relief it is when the indoor plumbing starts working!

  6. Lerin says

    April 10, 2009 at 3:56 am

    How is having a baby a “Small Success”? More like AMAZING, INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENT! ;) Just teasing you. Congrats again and enjoy all three of your precious girls this Easter.

Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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