“After their ride I walked them back over to their grandparent’s car. I said to the little girl, ‘How come you didn’t want to go for a ride?’ She said, ‘Well, the boys always say that stuff is just for boys, not for girls.'”
‘They told me, ‘She’s shy.’ Out of curiosity, I asked them about her face. They told me it was a birthmark, and that she gets picked on about it a lot.’
‘I didn’t make it to the hospital. This is my ‘I just had an unplanned, unassisted home birth after a vaginal birth after Cesarean!’ face.’
“I put my hand down there and felt her head. My husband is going to freak! I grabbed his arm and pulled him down to my level. Sit down, stay with me, hold my hand and talk to me! She was crowning. Within a few pushes, I birthed her head. CRAP, this hurts!”
‘We’ll discuss this later.’: Mom discovers daughter’s nipple piercings during x-ray
“The doctor and I were laughing but my mom was NOT.”
‘One mom wrote me after relapsing, again. She was feeling such shame, afraid I would think differently of her.’
“I have been Mama to 12 over the last 4 years. Our family is twisty and tangled. A story of commitment, choice and tragedy.”
‘I hate he’s not here to carve pumpkins, or yell out ‘Happy Halloween’ and cackle. He was just gone.’: Grieving wife says husband ‘never let us down,’ so now it’s her turn to step up
“He painted her room at her whim. He hung trophy shelves and pretended to be a monster during her sleepovers. He danced to ‘Hannah Montana.’ And then, he was just gone. She started to grow up. She didn’t go fishing anymore. The posters came down. She retired from gymnastics. She changed.”
‘When they first came out, their hair was fluorescent yellow. I’m talking bright NEON yellow. If you could have seen my eyes the moment I met them for the first time!’: Mom births identical twins
“She was laid on my chest immediately. I couldn’t even say anything at first because her hair was shocking for me to look at! My other two girls were born with dark brown hair. This little girl? I mean it was glowing!”
‘I woke her up at 2 a.m. and realized she couldn’t move her arm. I asked her to raise her arm, and realized it was paralyzed.’: Mom details daughter’s journey with Acute Flaccid Myelitis
“My 4 children came down with a regular, common cold. They all took the same medications, had the same symptoms. While 3 of my children continued to improve, my youngest daughter became extremely worse.”
‘My neighbors change these skeletons every day for Halloween. I think I finally need to share them.’: Woman documents neighbors’ amazing Halloween efforts
“I started to snap photos to compare all of them. My neighbors’ names are Bob and Bill. They were so excited.”
‘They said, ‘You’re lucky you don’t have kids.’ I had just had my first miscarriage.’
“I went back to work the next day taking orders at a drive-in while someone was complaining about their kids. I explained to them I had just miscarried, and I WOULD gladly take their place.”
‘Imagine if we stopped beating ourselves up and just saw ourselves as our children see us? As everything.’
“So, when you’re asked, ‘what did you do all day?’ ‘Save the world,’ is an acceptable answer.”