Welcome to the Intentional Parents Podcast season 2. Intentional exists to help parents in their

God-given task to raise passionate Jesus followers. We exist to bring hope, help, and healing to families.

Each week we will talk about anything from parenting, marriage, lifestyle,

and what it looks like to follow Jesus in our time.

Intentional is made up of Philin- and Diane Comer and Brooke and Elizabeth Moser. I am Brooke and the

funny thing is we are all family. Elizabeth is Phil and Diane's daughter so we're a

family figuring this thing out together.

We hope this podcast feels like you're sitting with us in our home talking about how to do this thing

called life together.

Elizabeth and I are your host, let's get into this week's podcast. So today I am so excited because mom you and I get to have a conversation just you and me

dad's not here brook's not here and I just get to pick your brain a little bit and glean from your wisdom and help all the moms listening do the same thing.

And today I just want to talk about motherhood in general and something that kind of took me by surprise in becoming a mom.

You know, I had always wanted to be a mom.

To me it was not a question. I didn't have to wrestle with do I want kids do I not I was kind of like the classic

fairy tale little girl I want to get married and I dreamed of my wedding and I just said with baby dolls all the time I didn't have like big career

aspirations and I honestly think I didn't like think through a lot of that

But I looked up to you and you were a stay-at-home mom and so motherhood was really a strong

desire for me and I had my first child and it wasn't like a really hard transition but the more that I've

had and the further I've gotten into motherhood I've honestly been surprised and I

would say even shocked by how hard it is and how the parts that I just never had any idea would be hard or monotonous or exhausting. I just, you know, those are the fairy tale things no one tells us about but I felt like I was

groomed for it, prepared for it, and yet completely unprepared for the fact that motherhood is so hard.

And so I know that I'm not alone in that and that there are so many moms who are feeling the same thing and more than anything in my life even more than my marriage and

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