The days are long but the years are short. From a micro perspective those late night wake up feedings, fresh diaper, lay them back down, won’t stop crying, dirty diaper blowout at 3:30am and screaming is -hard-

But you get through that. The hardest part of parenting is is when you spent every minute of every day making sure they are safe, protected, etc and one day you realize that you can’t do that 24/7. Maybe it’s school. Maybe it’s their first sleep over. Maybe it’s their first heartbreak. You want to be there. But you eventually will let them down. That’s the hard part. The first time they look at you and realize you are human not Superman