If you’re in a country that celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday, I hope you made it through the day’s challenges. If not, there’ll be a special Whiny Wednesday Mother’s Day Aftermath post this week, where you can share what did and didn’t go so well.
Some of you might be dealing with graduation season now, which was always a tough time for me in the past. It was hard to watch friends celebrate their grown children and usher them safely from the nest. It was one more thing on the long list of “I’ll nevers.”
Next come summer vacations, when kids are suddenly everywhere, and before you know it, we’ll be staring at Halloween and the beginning of the holiday season. I’m not sure there’s any time of year that isn’t challenging in some way.
What are some of the challenges you’re dealing with right now?
Have you recently made the decision to stop treatment and are trying to figure out how to let go of your plans for motherhood? Are you stuck in a cycle of grief that you can’t seem to break out of? Are you slowly accepting that your life won’t include children and you’re wondering what to do now?
Please leave me a comment below and I’ll try to cover these issues in the coming weeks and months.
We have had another failed cycle and are trying to decide if this is the end of the fertility road for us. I’m not sure I’m ready to give up but my husband is. After this weekend I feel just so left out of the world and alone is my motherhoodlessness
Melanie,
I’m so sorry to hear this. It’s so difficult when you reach that place of not wanting to stop, but not sure you can keep going. I’ll do a post about this.
Lisa -x-
This time of year we have some long weekends here in Sweden and the weather has been wonderful, so the neighbors kids have been out playing in the evenings.
I hear their voices and running steps and feel such longing.
Summer break starts soon and I’ll hear this until the end of August now.
Also, my partners sons birthdays are the 16 and 23 of may, then mother’s day is celebrated here on the 27’th and then a friends child graduates from high school on the fifth of June and then my nieces on the 8’th.
THEN things will calm down until November 21 when it’s one of my nieces birthday.
Unless someone gets pregnant…