“You taught me not to sweat the small stuff in life.”
To My Dearest Son On The Anniversary Of Your Death
‘There’s this stigma attached to parenting that for some reason, makes people think they’ll lose themselves when they have kids.’
“As if it’s going to change who they are. Some people plan it. Some people fall into it. And some people avoid it simply because they think they’re not ready.”
As our doctor was moving from baby A to baby B, I saw another blip on the screen and thought, ‘wait, what?!’ At the same time she said, ‘Guys, I’m seeing a third.’
“That was the biggest curveball of my entire life! If God had gotten us here, how could He not get us through a triplet pregnancy?”
‘My Facebook dinged and woke me. I figured it was a random message from a friend. It wasn’t. ‘Could it be?!’ My heart sank.’: Adopted woman discovers biological family in message she nearly ‘ignored’
“The day became more life-changing by the minute. I soon learned who my biological father was. For 36 years, I wondered why I looked the way I did, where my personality traits came from. Yet, I was not searching for a dad. I already had one. An AMAZING one. I didn’t want to disrupt any lives.”
‘When will we hear the patter of tiny feet? ‘You don’t want to be OLD parents, do you?’: Family adopts 2 children after struggling for years with infertility
“The phone call that changed our life. It was 8 p.m. on a Wednesday when the phone rang. It was our social worker. ‘How would you like to come and meet a baby boy? He’s almost 6 weeks old.’ My scream must have deafened her. We’d been waiting to adopt a child for two years and before that had spent five long, desperate years of infertility tests and treatments to try for one of our own.”
My Son Has Been Gone For 1,825 Days
“A piece of me died the day my son took his final breath. But through the tears, I smile. In my son’s short time, he changed my life.”
I Miss My Husband, Even Though He’s Right Here
“He looks at our children the way he used to look at me.”
‘We didn’t look at adoption as ‘Plan B’ anymore. We look at it as a privilege, and something we were honored to say yes to.’
“When we talked on the phone to her birth mama, we bawled crying. We couldn’t believe the miracle already taking place.”
‘I’ve been in jail, been beat up, raped and left for dead, and it still didn’t stop me.’ Grandmother admits her grandkids were the only thing to give her ‘hope’ for recovery
“I was going to end up with life in prison or in the grave. Now I have 2 little sets of eyes watching me and looking up to me, and that gave me reason to want to live.”
Getting pregnant at 15 was not a ‘dumb, teenage mistake.’ I wish I hadn’t remained silent.
“I was coerced into having an abortion by my parents who threatened to abandon me if I chose to continue my pregnancy. We were the typical Suburban facade, our lawn dyed as green as my parents were supportive.”