Hard stuff

I was talking with someone online today and having the conversation about how everyone has hard things in their life.

Sometimes I feel torn about some of the special needs post out there because they make is sound like special needs parenting is the hardest thing in the world... its hard, I'm not going to downplay that, I try to be honest about the challenges on this blog, but at the same time its not the hardest thing in the world...

WE ALL HAVE HARD STUFF GOING ON IN OUR LIVES!

Each and every one of us. Our "hard" might look different, but looking back, each season of my life had hard things.

-Struggling with school so much when I was little
-being in high school and wanting to be and adult
-Being in college and being frustrated because I wanted to make my impact with kids and sometimes the assignments drove me crazy
-Being newly married and figuring that out while still being in school
-Trying to get pregnant with Jillian, I wanted to be a mom so bad
-Being pregnant, I am SO sick while pregnant

In different seasons there are different hard things. Yes, sometimes I a guilty of seeing something someone is struggling and thinking to myself "If only that was my biggest stress" but then I try to refocus, because something being hard for someone feels really big and overwhelming and it is not loving to dismiss their feelings. Yes sometimes we all need a push to see past our day to day lives, I think often in our country we forget about all the other things going on in the world, and even things going on outside our front door, but that doesn't diminished what is going on in someone's life.

So my goal is to love people in their hard. Love them where they are at. I'm not always perfect and I fully admit that sometimes I get very caught up in my own life and forget about others. But something I have learned is that when you come along side others and love them your hard feels less overwhelming and hopefully to them their hard feels less overwhelming too because they have someone along side of them to help carry the load.

Some friends of us loved my girls and sent them vinyl name stickers for their feeding pumps. Jillian loves hers we like that it is easier to tell the two pumps apart