“When our agency called, they asked us, ‘There is a 2-month-old baby suffering from meth withdrawals and has a broken femur. Would you be willing to take him?’ I didn’t think there was any way he could’ve been in worse condition. To top it off, Katie and I were convinced we were going to take in older children. Now we had a call for an infant, but not just any infant, a very sick infant.”
“All of a sudden, I heard one of the boys say, ‘Uh, Oh. I gasped as I saw blue splatters across the floor and a thick pool of ink sinking into our carpet – our brand new carpet. Two years later, he passed away.”
“If a child is born with a hole in her heart, everyone in our society would respond the same way.”
“My mother in law secretly FaceTimed Brooks and shoved the phone in the front of her shirt.”
“He said, ‘Adrianna can I be your daddy, to promise to love and protect you for the rest of your life?'”
“It’s not every day your eldest child at 12 years old gets to deliver your last child.”
“He could tell you our job was to keep him safe and his job was to stay near us when out.”
“This is not my first rodeo, and let’s be honest — I don’t have the time or the energy anymore to get dolled up to go sit in field and swat mosquitoes while gazing peacefully at my belly.”
“I was 19 when I got pregnant with my first son.”
“Are we nervous? Absolutely! Are we 100% prepared? Not at all. Do we know that Ian will be a perfect fit for our family. Without a doubt.”
