The Best We Can
This is raw but I needed to just get it out. I couldn't keep reading it over and over to edit... Please have grace with me. I feel like a failure as a mother. Logically I know it’s not true but our hearts and minds often pull us in different directions and now is most assuredly one of those times for me. I have two boys, 11 and 13. Colin, my 11 year old, loves robotics, music and aerial arts. Caleb, my 13 year old, loves sports and video games. Their personalities are like night and day but they’re both incredible young men with enormous hearts. I was lucky as a young mom. Both boys started sleeping for 6ish hours through the night at around 6 weeks old. They were great toddlers and never got into too much trouble. I really was blessed with healthy, smart, caring children. Being a mom to two great kiddos and gliding through most of elementary school was so easy and satisfying… until it wasn’t. About 4 years ago when Caleb was in 4 th grade things started to change: just l...