Stop Letting your Child’s Milestones Make you Sad.

Stop letting your child’s milestones make you sad. Your kids are growing. There are things you’re going to miss. You’ll miss their tiny toes and the way they let you hug them in public. You’ll miss picking out their outfits and the way they said “tickledy” instead of "that tickles". I get it, I do but I also see the other side. You see, I live in a community where moms don’t get all of that or any of that....They don’t get first words and first bites. First holidays aren’t always spent passing their baby around while they beam with pride and joy. Sometimes, there are no words at all and first holidays are spent in hospital rooms. Sometimes, first days of school look different and sleepless nights don’t end.
In this world we celebrate milestones and next steps because we didn’t know we were going to get them and some of us never did.
So, momma don’t let them growing make you sad. Let it be a reminder that life is short and full of new phases. 

They are growing up and that is awesome. It’s worth celebrating. So, stop putting sad faces on your Facebook statuses and pictures of birthdays and graduations. You are given a gift. A gift that another mother desperately wishes she had. Some mom’s spend their child’s birthday in a grave yard and long that life would have went on much differently.
I know it’s hard to see them grow but I also know if we looked at them growing as a gift, it wouldn’t be sad. It would be a celebration!