“They told me to wait 7 days before taking a pregnancy test, but I couldn’t wait and took one every day. On the 5th day, I saw the faintest line. I started freaking out, asking my parents and sister to look at the test to see if I was dreaming. I wasn’t.”
“Reach out to your grieving friends. They need you now more than ever.”
They have nothing to do with reading or writing.
“I forwarded his profile to my husband. Maybe he’d give a firm ‘no’ and we could move on with our lives. But that night at dinner, he DIDN’T give a firm no. In fact, neither of us could come up with a reason why we SHOULDN’T. We didn’t have any medical records. We were scared. But I couldn’t get this little boy off my mind.”
“You know the new mom at work? (Insert eye roll.) The one that is leaving early because day care has called… again. The mom that only talks about her kids in the lunch room. That mom who is forever taking days off. And the one that has a shorter working week and gets an extra day off? Don’t judge.”
“Our 12-year-old daughter, Natalie, was diagnosed with a visual impairment at 9-months-old.”
“When they put her on my chest, I asked them to take her off.”
“The only time you know you have is right now. Are you using it to create more of what you want?”
“There is a dirty little secret that most people don’t know. But ask a Title 1 teacher about it, and they’ll nod.”
“We all need that beautiful reminder that the best version of ourselves and our greatest gifts lie on the outside of our comfort zone. I can proudly say this is mine.”
