Getting emotional on your kids birthdays

Tweet

My daughter's 2nd birthday is coming up tomorrow. I'm so excited for her and so happy to see her growing up into such a wonderful little girl. But I always get emotional when it gets close to time for her birthday. Last year I pretty much had a meltdown the entire week before her birthday. I don't know why I do this and I thought that maybe last year it was because it was her first birthday and that would be it. But now this year I'm doing it again. Of course I'm sure trying to declutter my house and going through and getting rid of my old maternity clothes the week of her birthday didn't help matters lol. I just saw this maternity clothes that I had almost completely forgotten about and remembered how much I loved being pregnant and out pour the tears. A part of me think our children's birthdays are more a celebration for parents then for the children. It's almost like an accomplishment that we can celebrate that we survived another year of parenthood and our children are actually turning out pretty good. So I am going to get emotional like this every year on her birthday? Does this ever go away? Now I just hope that I can get through singing "Happy Birthday" to her tomorrow without getting teary eyed like I did last year.