People ask, "what is it like being a parent?" Well... let me try to tell you. I was never an emotional person. Before children, if I were caught crying then there was definitely something wrong, but kids change everything! Now, every news story is not just a story filled with crazy people, or sick people, or unfortunate people. Now it is filled with kids. That guy who went crazy and ran naked into a car, that's someone's son, and the girls who were found trapped in a grown man's house for years, those are someone's daughters. The boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure made my heart skip a beat. I can't even watch the video. What if that had been my son? And may God have mercy on them, the boy who was taken by an alligator right in front of his parents! My heart just can't take the tragedy. I can't even fathom a life without my babies. My heart will not even let my mind imagine a life without them!
Recently, an old friend whose son (who was just a month older than my Naveed) passed away suddenly. The heartbreak I felt for her and her family was like no heartache I would have ever felt before having kids. I hug and kiss my babies more often each time I am reminded of how precious their life is. I miss my babies even while they're sleeping at night and have to check on them often. I have never seen more danger in everyday life, than I do now as a mom. There is truly no more vulnerable position than being a parent!
However, there is also not a more joy filled day than one spent with my children. They are the light in this world. They make the ordinary extraordinary. Even though they make me the most vulnerable emotional wreck in town, I wouldn't trade a second of it for the world!
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