“Without thinking, the words literally just came out of my mouth. I remember calling my husband. ‘There is paperwork in the printer I need you to look at when you come home. I want to adopt a little boy from school,’ I told him. ‘Are you sure?’ ‘I am.’ ‘Then what do I have to do to get the house ready?’ We all agreed, we were doing this.”
“You never know what’s going on.”
“When we decided to bring a broken child into our home I never knew how much transparency it would bring out in me.”
“I assume this is the placenta ready to drop it like it’s hot.”
“Still today I struggle with blaming myself for losing those precious baby girls of ours. I try to remind myself that the boys are healthier because of it.”
“She looks like Cinderella, but lives like Sleeping Beauty.”
“I started having this overwhelming feeling that something was wrong.”
“It’s beautiful, painful, frustrating, and so many other things. Infertility has broken me down and made me a different person.”
“People see me feed a 7-year-old with a spoon as I try to block her other hand from grabbing, and keep her from jumping in her seat.”
“We could have been placed next to anyone, but we were seated next to one of the nicest men I have ever met in my life.”
