what I told my mom about the orchard

After I took my three youngest to the apple orchard and farm — $53.00 in Honeycrisp apples later — I called my mom and told her, “It’s just so different now. When my first three were this age, we couldn’t go anywhere. Cannon was such a risk, such an unknown. Autism felt impossible. I was so limited when I had three under three the first time around. I almost feel like God is redeeming that entire season of motherhood with these three.”

I don’t think many other mothers will really understand that, and that’s ok.

But I guess I just wanted to say that I’m grateful.