Mother's Day

I'm posting this a day late but I need to get something off my chest. Yesterday was Mother's Day and it was different than any Mother's Day I've ever celebrated before. Every other year I've been eager to celebrate the ladies in my life who have been "Mother" to me in some way or another but yesterday was the first time I thought of all the women who hurt on Mother's Day. Hurt because they can't be a mother or who have lost their mother or who are estranged from their mother, etc. I don't want to be a downer on a day that is sweetly celebrated for many. Really, I don't. Yesterday, though, I struggled with the fact that I lost two pregnancies this year and couldn't celebrate being a mom. Next year, maybe take the time to send a text or a say a sweet thing to a friend you know is not celebrating but grieving on that Sunday.