Hitting WAY too close to home

There was a shooting at a high school about 20 miles from us this morning. I’m sitting here watching the breaking news unfold and all I can think is how unfair it all is. We try so hard to bring a child into this world, promising our little bumps that when they are here, we’ll never let anything bad ever happen to them. But life is so uncertain and random; I find myself worrying more and more about how I will keep my promises of safety in a world so eager to show you how unsafe it really is. I think about how our children will grow up in a world so different from the one we knew. I know it’s most likely the pregnancy hormones talking, but I’ll be holding my 1 year old close to me and rubbing my bump today, praying that time might just slow down for awhile..