Today is tough for me because I lost my Mom when I was only 24, and really beginning to get close with her after many difficult years. She died of complications from cancer. It still hurts, all these years later.

Today is also difficult, because I adore children, and will never have any of my own. I feel this very powerfully and deeply, and it does cause me to mourn a life I could have had.

Hugggs, Emily, and to everyone enduring a troubling, painful Mother's Day, for whatever reason.