“Not willing to accept this as my new normal or wait for happiness to just HAPPEN to me, I started being honest with myself and others and decided to depend on the only person that could truly control my happiness… ME.”
5 Tips For Taking Control And Recapturing Happiness
‘There are children who need a safe place, how can I ignore that?’ We couldn’t hold our hearts back.’: Mom diagnosed with mast cell disease grows family through foster care, adoption
“Foster care is a lot like a rose garden. These children are worth the wait and effort. They are worth the pin-pricks from the thorns.”
You’re Not Throwing Anything Away If You Change Career Paths
“Regardless of your next career move, no one can take your past experience away from you. As long as you know who you are and what’s important to you, you are not throwing ANYTHING away.”
‘To the mama who is doing EVERYTHING, but feels like it’s never enough.’: Special needs mom pens open letter to parents with ‘difficult journey’
“I know this is not the parenting journey you had imagined when you chose to start a family, but it is the one you were born to do.”
Raising Children In This Beautiful Mess Of A World Isn’t For The Faint Of Heart
“As I sat to the side of the curb, salty drops navigating their way down to my chin, I couldn’t help but think how so much of motherhood is done in the spaces where no one else is. Where it’s just us. All by ourselves. Sometimes crying. Oftentimes praying. All the time loving.”
‘I was so embarrassed. Why does my child throw tantrums in public?’: Mom of 4 urges ‘we don’t need to beat ourselves up’
“A bad day doesn’t make you a bad mom.”
I Adopted A Newborn Orphan At 22 Years Old, And It’s The Best Decision I’ve Ever Made
“A 5-day old baby was placed into my arms. I was only 22 years old but, at that moment, my life as I knew it changed. I fell in love.”
If You Want To Get A Bunch Of Unsolicited Advice, Just Get Pregnant
“Regardless of our intentions, giving advice that isn’t requested is at best annoying and at worst invasive and manipulative.”
‘Sometimes babies cry. As long as they’re changed and fed, they don’t always need to be figured out.’: Mom shares newborn parenting advice
“When I started seeing my baby as a human and not some complicated newborn, figuring out her needs no longer seemed like such a mystery.”
‘The whole exchange took 2 minutes, but my life would be marked by this moment forever.’: Single mom shares unexpected foster care adoption of baby girl
“She was in a little yellow nightgown onesie and it was way too big for her. I signed some paperwork, got her out of the car, and the case worker handed me a diaper bag packed by a local church. That was it.”