And I reached out to a friend and I was like, I'm going to die.

Like he just won't click crying and I have this other son that needs me.

And she pretty much spoke into my life at that point and gave me a big dose of perspective.

And she just said, what if you looked at this crying baby as your main thing?

Like this is your highest calling right now to love on him,

to walk with him through this to just hold him, expect every day.

What if you expected him to just cry for hours?

And then instead of resenting that time on him crying, I anticipated it.

I prepared for it. I had a little plan for we had to take a walk in the stroller or

so once I changed my perspective from resenting the crying baby to,

this is what God gave me right now for this season. I have a call to eat baby.

You're listening to episode 82 of the God Center Mom podcast.

Today I'm lucky enough to chat with Monica Swanson,

otherwise known as the Grom Mom. And if you don't know what a Grom is,

don't worry, she will let you know in this episode.

But she's a mom to four boys, teen boys, and a five year old, and you know,

Monica just has a really positive perspective, some great insight.

She's been doing this parenting thing for a little while now.

And I just really like to be around people who have great ideas and great ways to reframe

the reality of our day to day. And I think that's what Monica does for us today in this episode.

I hope you are blessed by her insights and definitely go check out her website,

monicaswanson.com. A lot of the content we talk about today is stuff she has written about

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