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Jesus and Prozac: There Is No Shame In Either

In less then a decade of life I have -planned a wedding -become a wife -learned how to actually BE a wife -purchased a home -suffered a miscarriage -grown and delivered FIVE human beings in 5 years -quit my job as a nurse -nursed 5 babies -started homeschooling our oldest ....among other things! I tell you all this not to brag or gloat. That is the last thing that I would want to do. I tell you all this to encourage you! I have always had to work my way through a little bit of the baby blues after every delivery. Normally I feel better at about 6 months postpartum. With baby number 4 it was at about 11 months. This time around it felt different. It was more intense. If I were a season, I would have been winter. And not the fun, 'it's Christmas and the first snow fall' winter, but the 'it's been cold for so long we are over it' winter. I was stuck in winter. My kids, on the other hand, were in spring. They were learning and loving life. They were ha