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\u201cDig deep, and you\u2019ll find something for you,\u201d my mother said as she gently set an enormous bag of baby clothes on my hospital bed.<\/p>\n
As we admired each tiny outfit one-by-one, as only a fresh mom and grandmother can, I forgot her words. When I delved one last time, all I grasped was a tiny black box.<\/p>\n
My mom appeared to be deep in thought, memorizing every feature of my tiny baby\u2019s face, who miraculously and conveniently slept soundly in the bassinet for the first time in two days. I think Mom was looking for traces of my daddy, who died suddenly seven years prior, and whose absence that day loomed so heartbreakingly, neither of us could bring ourselves to acknowledge it.<\/p>\n
So when her words cut through the heavy silence, I was almost startled. Never even looking up from her grandchild, she said simply, \u201cDon\u2019t forget you<\/i> in this process. It\u2019s MAC Viva Glam 1, and it\u2019ll last all day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lipstick. <\/i><\/p>\n
A day later, I fumbled through a still-shaky diaper change, coaxed the uncooperative limbs of my cranky, toothless cherub into her \u201cgoing home\u201d outfit, and strapped her incorrectly into her brand new travel system.<\/p>\n
In the mirror, I stared groggily at a new mom I barely recognized and dutifully applied my new lipstick – a matte, rich shade of red I would have never purchased for myself. After three days of caring for a new human on almost no sleep and with zero experience, my confidence was gone. I smiled weakly back at the stranger. If the lipstick wasn\u2019t right for me, I was too tired to care.<\/p>\n
When a nurse knocked softly at the door, \u201cYour husband is downstairs with the car,\u201d she smiled brightly. \u201cGirl, you look like you\u2019ve got it all together. Even lipstick! This comes easy for some and you look beautiful!\u201d<\/p>\n
She said everything I needed to hear and her words got me through a rough few months. When motherhood came anything but easy, at least I looked the part.<\/p>\n
By virtue of the fact you\u2019re now a mom, you\u2019ll always know the perfect gift for a new baby, even if their mom doesn\u2019t, yet.<\/p>\n
Never forget the lipstick at the bottom of the bag. For her, for you, for every mom who needs to feel beautiful.<\/p>\n
Courtney lives with her two children and husband in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She wears red lipstick while blogging about mom things, writing for a local lifestyle magazine and attending MOPS.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDig deep, and you\u2019ll find something for you,\u201d my mother said as she gently set an enormous bag of baby clothes on my hospital bed. As we admired each tiny outfit one-by-one, as only a fresh mom and grandmother can, I forgot her words. When I delved one last time, all I grasped was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":12212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[212,26,203,55,121,164],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellness","tag-courage","tag-family","tag-inspire","tag-mom","tag-new-baby","tag-self"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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