“Today, I lost it. I could feel my nerves fraying at the seams as my toddler refused to listen to anything I said. And in true me fashion, I cried. I lost my patience. I slammed cabinets and scraped plates filled with uneaten dinner. I took away privileges and declared mommy law. The mental load of motherhood broke me. Finito. Buh-bye. GONE.”
“They follow the rules, on their terms. They ask all the questions, especially the ones that cannot be answered easily. They don’t do fake. There’s no room in their vocabulary for artificial sweeteners; what you see is what you get.”
“‘The judge signed off, and now we can go through with the adoption.’ It should have been one of the happiest days of my life. Instead, I was absolutely terrified. We’d just gotten some absolutely terrible news a few days before: James had cancer.”
“For a while, all that was under our roof was your whole world. But our home is now a resting spot from the big world you belong to. A world where I can’t wait to see how you fly.”
“Right after dinner, Maggie comes over to me in the living room, points at her mouth, and says, ‘I just swallowed that.’ I know immediately that this is BAD.”
“It was quite an unexpected change from the usual never-ending line of glittery Bippity Boppity Boutique princesses!”
“There are extra layers to the first day of school drop-off when you love the most vulnerable inside.”
“No child chooses to be an orphan or to be in foster care, and they deserve to be someone’s Plan A.”
“Everything in me wants to keep you so incredibly close, sweet baby. But you were born to fly. So, spread those radiant wings far-and-wide, and conquer the world.”
“Co-parenting isn’t easy, but it can be so rewarding when you manage to get it right.”
