First of all, I want to say you are so very loved. Every single one of you has mothers and fathers that love you to the moon.

I grew up in many different places and I met a lot of people. The majority of my friends from elementary school are now your mothers and fathers. You probably have siblings, now, too. Your parents had you young, but that only made you more important.

I don't understand what it's like to raise a child at this age, and I have the highest respect for all of your parents for raising you the way they do and making you into the beautiful children I know you will be.

I see the Facebook picture of you growing up. I see you growing each and every day, and I see your parents' love for you grow just as frequently. When we were kids, I doubt we had any of this planned. I think we all had the same plans: graduate high school, college, a career, then kids. It gets complicated as life goes on because not every life has one path. After high school, or maybe before, during college, or maybe instead of college, you came to be.

All of a sudden, everything that was important just wasn't as important as you are and always will be to your parents. I see the love in all of your mothers' eyes as you get bigger with each month. I see both the sadness and happiness when you walk for the first time, sit up for the first time, or say "mama" or "dada" for the first time.

I often feel jealous when I see the love between you and your mother, wishing I had something that close to me in my life. But I know it will come and that one day I will understand all the sacrifices she made for you.

Let me tell you now; there will come a time in your young life where you will be hurt, upset, or angry at your parents. When that time comes just realize that whatever made you upset, they just did it out of love.

I don't understand the life of a parent yet, but let me tell you one thing: anything they do or say is all for your benefit. If I have the honor of being in your life someday, I will spoil the heck out of you. Where you have your parents' love, you also have your parents' friends and families love.

And for my friends who have lost children in their lives, you don't deserve that. It hurts, I know, and it never stops hurting. I see it in your eyes, even if it's been months since you've lost your baby. One day, though, you will have the chance to be a mom again and you will experience all of the love that a mother and child share.