Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone.

[traceroo]

Today on Facebook, an acquaintance of mine posted that he wants to start running. He talked a bit about some specific goals. It was a very positive, upbeat sort of status update. One of his followers responded with a comment that amounted to, "I wish I could run. My knee can't take the repeated stress." That comment annoyed me. It took my friend's

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[jatrina]

I love you dearly! And I get you! I actually became conscious of not wanting to post about any hardships I'm facing involving being that SAHM with no babysitters at all and no breaks because of another friend of mine, Stephanie. She had one older daughter - I want to say the Beastie was 10 or so at this time. She was a single mom with little support from the dad. And she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Before she knew it was terminal, she had gotten to the point in treatment where she would no longer be able to have children. She wasn't at that moment planning on it, but she was young, and it hurt to lose that possible future, but of course she did it because she wanted to live. She told this group of us that all chatted, and most of us had babies at that point, that she had to hide some of our FB posts because seeing the pictures just hurt too much. But that she didn't want us to stop posting them, of course. She was just hurting all over and that was something she shared, to be clear

Love you bunches and bunches!

[traceroo]

I adore getting to be even vaguely connected to Zander through the weekly photos you post -- Please don't discontinue that process. It's such a privelege and delight

Re: Love you bunches and bunches!

[tlm_lorelei]

I completely understand! And while I am on social media *far* more than I should be, and probably share *way * to much, I always try to stay positive

[rhoda_penmark]

I have been wondering where you guys were with the baby situation. Whether you are moving forward with adoption or not, the whole situation is a lot to deal with, and it just really sucks for quite a while. I hope time improves things for you. It has for us.