My friend's daughter just showed me her new earring. After feeling the pain in my ear (I had a bad experience with earrings), I remembered a conversation I had when I was pregnant: would I allow my daughter to get her ears pierced. I had responded, that as long as she or her father can take care of it then I'm ok with it (I definitely can't deal with earrings). And now I'm just really sad about my Miriam missing out on that experience, whether she'd want or not want to get her ears pierced, she'd definitely would've gone through discussing it with us, her friends... And now she would never go through that. Or any other growing up experience. I'm really sad about that.

Oh Devorah, that is just so incredibly sad. Sending you a hug mama.

Hugs to you my friend!

Thank you AB and Meg, sending a hug too