“Our doctor joked about the possibility of seeing triplets on the ultrasound. I was dizzy, so very dizzy. I laid down on the table and exposed my stomach. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready for my heart to be broken again. He put the wand on my stomach, and I knew instantly. I couldn’t see a baby. My doctor was quiet. I told him there was nothing there. It wasn’t a question. I knew.”
“How many times did he wonder if this was the best idea. How many times did he want to find a place to sit or lie down and wait till morning when he could maybe get someone to come pick him up and bring him back home. But he walked until he got here! I am in total awe of this young man!”
“I noticed he was getting super clumsy. But he was a toddler, and most toddlers are naturally wobbly. Yet this felt different. He was holding on to the wall when he would walk, sometimes he would just fall right over. It was strange.”
“Don’t panic if you see blood in your milk! I know it is alarming.”
“The company has different colored packaging to indicate chunky, chewy, or regular but NO screaming warnings about such a fatal ingredient to many people. Especially children.”
“I asked if this was the same child I had seen in on the news, and she confirmed it. I knew in that moment I had to put my whole heart in it for this family.”
“Earlier this week we went to get Zeke’s senior yearbook pictures. On the way, I noticed his hands. Working hands.”
“Easton lost his mom to an overdose, and then we both lost our father 12 days later to pancreatic cancer. Today marks the day that he has officially spent more time with us, than he ever did with his biological parents. Let that sink in.”
“The big moment will come. Everyone will be looking at her, but I’ll be looking at you.”
“Postnatal depression isn’t always looking depressed. I never looked depressed…not once.”
