Struggling to Understand

It's been a really tough couple of days - I don't know anyone who hasn't been affected by the Sandyhook school shootings. Shootings like this are always horrible, but this one, it affected me more than any other even has.

It's the fact that the victims were mostly children. Six and seven years old. As a mother, this is my worst nightmare. This hurts my heart. When I heard, I sat in my office and cried. I wish there was something, anything, that I could do for the parents that lost their children. No parent should have to go through something like this.

I know I can't protect my child every minute of every day. I can't possibly protect him from everything. But this makes me want to never let him leave my sight. I really, truly just do not understand how anyone could do something like this.

I know I've hugged my son a lot in the last couple of days, and know just how lucky I am to have him in my life. My thoughts are with the families that lost loved ones. I am so sorry, so very, very sorry.