This is a lot to unpack. I stated multiple times that I wanted a girl, too. I still do, but I won't ever be pregnant again. I wanted a daughter so badly during my second and last pregnancy, that I cried when alI found out it was another boy. Big fat alligator tears! I moped around the rest of the pregnancy feeling bad for myself that I was only going to have sons. It took me a long time to get excited about having another boy. I eventually did. If you read in the piece, you will also see I lost two pregnancies. One was a girl. It was heartbreaking. To know my only daughter is in Heaven eats away at me when I see moms and daughters out shopping and doing things only a duo like that can do together.

I don't have a daughter. I only have sons. I have chosen to accept and cherish my role as a boy mom. That's all I was saying. My children are cherished. All of them. Even the dead ones. I would have loved if my daughter had lived, but she didn't. So please...don't tell me that raising girls is better. I will never get to know! But, I do know I love my sons and consider it a privilege to raise them into respectful, well-rounded, good men. It is a huge responsibility that my husband and I don't take lightly. Boys and girls are both precious and should be cherished. Children are a blessing..no matter their gender. It is okay for me to admit that I have come to love raising boys because that's what I have.