I teared up several times yesterday watching the news about the terrible school shooting in Connecticut. I have found that becoming a parent has made me so much more emotional. I cried at church two weeks ago when they made the announcement about donating toys, because I couldn't bear the thought of a child having a toy less Christmas.
I simply cannot imagine the pain the parents of those children are going through. Last night, my husband and I played with our baby after his bath, and I thought, "Those parents had this too". They had sleepless nights, poopy diapers, temper tantrums, and now they will never experience those things with their babies again.
I hope that productive conversations about mental illness and gun laws take place after this tragedy. No parent should ever have to endure this, and it keeps happening over and over, with increasing frequency in America.
