Hey guys, welcome back to Pretty Lions podcast. I have got my favorite Whitney with me. Whitney, how are you?

Hi, friends. I'm good. How are y'all? Well, we're good, but we were talking.

And I think this is a good conversation to bring from offline to online, which is how a lot of the best episodes come.

Typically.

How milestones of our kids is amazing.

It's sad.

Yeah. It's happy. It's conflicting. It's triggering. It's all the things.

It's everything. It's, you know, it's one of those we're going to have conflicting,

coexisting emotions. And that's not always the easiest thing to manage or to know how to cope with. And that that's okay.

We can call it for what it is. But you know, as mothers, I feel like birthdays and milestones,

they are so bittersweet because for so long we think, oh, my goodness, I'm ever going to get

out of this newborn phase where I'm

waking up every two and I have to three hours to feed my baby and then they get to be toddlers

and you're like oh my goodness are we ever going to get out of the terrible twos or are we ever going

to be potty trained or are we ever going to do this and before you know it your baby is starting

kindergarten yeah and then before you know it they are halfway through elementary school or they're starting

middle school or, you know, just it keeps on going and you're thinking, no, no, no, no,

like you're only supposed to be two and a half.

There's no way you could be seven, eight, nine, whatever.

Yeah.

No, it's, you know, we prepare so much for the birth of the baby, right?

And we're like, it's a baby shower and we're trying to read the books.

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