“Thank you for restoring my faith in strangers… thank you for making my kids happy. And thank you to your prince charming for loaning you to us.”
‘LOOK! PRINCESS!’ After visiting daughter in NICU, emotional mom thanks real-life prom princess in diner for helping family ‘forget all the troubles of the day’
My Student Was Put On An Adoption Site, So I Made Him Part Of My Forever Family
“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.”
Stop Asking Couples When They’re Having Kids
“You never know what’s going on.”
‘You accepted a child, a stranger, into your family with the intent on them leaving, knowing the struggles you would face.’
“When we decided to bring a broken child into our home I never knew how much transparency it would bring out in me.”
‘I am in my hotel room, all by my lonesome, learning how to deliver my own baby. It’s GAME TIME.’
“I assume this is the placenta ready to drop it like it’s hot.”
‘They thrived at the sacrifice of our identical baby girls.’: Mom’s anguish over losing quints pregnancy, gives birth to triplets
“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.”
My Daughter Sleeps 20 Hours A Day Due Thanks To Severe Epilepsy
“She looks like Cinderella, but lives like Sleeping Beauty.”
‘I was next to the woman who took the X-ray. I saw the shock on her face’: How this little boy went from stomach pains to cancer
“I started having this overwhelming feeling that something was wrong.”
‘Her mother abandoned her two little brothers and they had nowhere to go’: Mom’s journey through infertility, foster care and ‘mamahood’
“It’s beautiful, painful, frustrating, and so many other things. Infertility has broken me down and made me a different person.”
Her ‘disability is invisible.’: Mom painstakingly navigates outings with daughter who has severe autism
“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.”