day of school.
The countless ordinary moments that never make headlines.
Those are the experiences that shape a parent.
Not a newspaper title.
Not a social media post.
Not the number attached to someone’s age.
Parenthood is built in thousands of small moments.
It is getting up when you’re exhausted.
It is comforting a crying child.
It is learning from mistakes.
It is worrying when the child is sick.
It is celebrating achievements that seem tiny to everyone else but enormous to a parent.
And for two people who entered parenthood so young, those lessons would have happened alongside the normal process of growing up.
That would not always have been easy.
There may have been moments when they wondered what their lives might have looked like if things had happened differently.
That is a natural human thought.
But imagining another life doesn’t mean failing to love the life you
