“I never imagined they would actually do it, but a little while later, a child life specialist showed up at the door with sparkly polish.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“I never imagined they would actually do it, but a little while later, a child life specialist showed up at the door with sparkly polish.”
“My mind started to spin. How could a boy be running and playing every day with that big of a tumor?”
“My body isn’t allowing me this chance to do it on my own, although my heart has been ready for 6.5 years.”
“He first called my friend and asked her for a date, but she said, ‘No thank you.’ Elmer then called me. I was annoyed and unsure about this Elmer guy, but I gave him a chance and said, ‘Okay, why not.’”
“My sweet, soulful oldest baby boy was sharing in on this moment so deeply, with us. Taking in every breath, right along with us!”
“It’s not the breaking that matters, the how or why. What matters is how we choose to respond to the broken-ness.”
“You aren’t having a baby for the 12 hours of labor ending with a beautiful natural birth. You are having a baby for the beautiful lifetime you get to spend loving him.”
“Being an attorney paid the bills, but doing these baby ultrasound paintings feeds the soul.”
“It turns out the eyes are a window to the brain.”
“One day near that old tire swing, I was playing in the dirt and I saw something that made me curious. It was a small, round piece of metal and as I cleared some soil around it, I realized it was a ring.”