Disappointment comes in all different shapes and sizes. It comes at different points and different intersections of our lives.
Today unfortunately my son came face to face with one of those disappointments when someone he loves with all his heart told him they would come do something with him and then for whatever reason never showed up.
It hurt me so much as his mother to watch him face this and know that forever now when he sees this person my son will sees cracks in this person. This person is no longer perfect in his eyes and no longer esteemed in the same way as they were before today. As much as I know these days must come for my children it still hurts me to watch as part of their innocence is washed away by a flawed world with flawed people.
It is so very hard sometimes as a parent to watch your child grow up and go through all the things you know they must in order to one day be the adults you always pictured them to be.
