Grieving the Growing: When Motherhood Shifts Seasons
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens." — Ecclesiastes 3:1 If your heart has felt a quiet ache lately, one you can't quite explain, this is for you. No one tells you that motherhood is filled with little goodbyes. The first time they sleep through the night. The last time you carried them on your hip. The day they no longer need you to tie their shoes. The season when homeschooling ends. The first day, they walk into a classroom without you. These moments don't come with a funeral, yet something in your heart quietly grieves. Not because something is wrong, but because something beautiful has changed. As mothers, we often celebrate our children's milestones while quietly mourning the season that has passed. We clap as they grow stronger, wiser, and more independent, yet part of us longs for one more bedtime story, one more tiny hand reaching for ours, one more day when home was all they knew. And that's ...
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