Just a post about being Jayci’s mom

I had wrote this post in the beginning thinking I would link up to Kelly’s Korner. I had misread her title and her Show Us Your Life is all about being a mom to ALL girls, which I am not. Anyway, I wrote the post and I don’t want to delete it so I won’t link up but I will still post it!

Being a mother of a girl is something more than I could ever explain. It is challenging, chaos, and drama but it is also rewarding.

It is a challenge because Jayci is so strong-willed but rewarding because I wouldn’t have it any other way. I know as she gets older I will want her to be strong-willed and independent. However, as she grows sometimes I just want to pull her back to being my little girl where she needs me more than anything. This in-between stage has been difficult for us. Me letting her go and her trying to pull away and become a young lady.

Onto some more fun things about having a girl….Barbie dolls, tutus, pink and purple (anything), and now softball! I always have someone to go shopping or get mani/pedi’s with. She loves having girl days! In fact I think it is time to have one sometime soon!!

Oh and our newest adventure is doing different hair styles. I remember when it was just a small pony tail on top of her head. Here she is in her second birthday pictures.

And here she is now at 6 and all that hair. She doesn’t love for me to style it differently but every now and then I catch her on a good day and she will let me experiment.

I love watching her become a big sister. She is old enough where it is a joy to watch them. There is very little jealousy and she just loves Korbyn. Today she got him out of his crib though and I about had a stroke! She like to try and be mommy except when it comes to diaper changing…

This beautiful girl changed my life more ways than I could ever imagine. She came at the perfect time in my life. God knew what he was doing. She made me grow up and become a mother. There are always things I would do differently but I would never want to change anything about Jayci Leigh.

~Kristen