4745 Days Later: Still Don’t Miss Being Pregnant
Back in 2019, I wrote an article about how it had been 2,500 days since my daughter was born, and I still didn’t miss being pregnant. A lot of mothers had encouraged me to take it all in, saying I’d forget the discomfort and someday miss having my very active baby running laps inside my belly.
Well, here we are, coming up on 13 years of not being pregnant, and I can safely say I haven’t missed it once. Maybe that maternal instinct skipped me. But I’m not immune to all the bittersweetness that comes with the milestones.
The Big Leap to Middle School
Last year, when she left behind her sweet elementary school and headed off to middle school, I was worried that the world would swallow her up. It didn’t. She ate the world for lunch. She excelled in her classes, handled school bullies with ease, and charmed her teachers. It really came down to me not wanting her to grow up so fast. But what’s a mom to do?
Saying Goodbye to Soccer
And this past month, she hit a couple more milestones that I wasn’t ready for. First, she made the final decision to quit soccer. That was a hard pill to swallow. She’s played since she was five. We’ve traveled all over, sat through rain, sleet, snow, and blazing heat. We’ve put a million miles on my SUV driving her to four practices a week. We’ve bought every size of soccer cleat from size 1 to size 11. We loved it. But now, we’re not a soccer family anymore. I am proud of her for making her own decisions and sticking to them, but sad that it’s over…