Love

There's just something about babies, right? I walked into my brothers house today and the first thing he said to me is "just in time to change Ava's diaper" i tried to laugh it off..but he was being completely serious. "come on you need the practice" he said. Look bro, i have changed way more diapers in my day then you have! He insisted i needed to brush up and the next thing i knew I was wiping that tiny bum clean. Mike is all about teaching me life skills.

The real life lessons have come from observing this cute new family. I think the meaning of love is very skewed nowadays. Over the past week and a half since baby Ava was born I have decided that love is an act of working together. It's committing yourself to someone and never letting go or backing down. As I watched my brother and his wife the first night in the hospital i couldn't help but notice how much love that little room was full of. They were inexperienced and fumbling around as they took care of their new baby. mike said to me "we're so bad at this, we have no idea what we're doing" The fact that they are figuring things out together is the most endearing thing in the world to me. I guess because i have been able to see how much they care for each other as well as their baby. 

Love is selfless, natural, and so so sweet. The media portrays love to be something that is always accompanied with well-planned and expensive outfits with the attitude of "if you're beautiful enough you will be capable of being loved and loving." That is absolutely not true. 

I've never given birth but I know that it isn't the most attractive thing ever. Your body just underwent something MAJOR! It is beautiful in it's own raw kind of way. It's the real thing, ya know? Experiencing something with someone who you love and who loves you so much that despite the pain or the changes in your body. Leaving you so uninhibited by anything except the ones you love.  

I'm grateful to be surrounded with so many amazing examples of loving relationships. 

Av's and me hammocking today. does life even get better then this?