“I’d just gotten to the freeing point in a mom’s life. You know, where your kids are self-sufficient enough to give you a minute to breathe, to get dishes or laundry done, or even just take a shower without worrying about them. I knew there was no way I could be pregnant. Nor did I want to be.”
“To lose a child, in the beginning of her prime, when she had so many dreams to fulfill and so many lives yet to touch, is a journey no one should have to take.”
“This is a photo of my grandma on her 92nd birthday, just 2 days before she passed, kissing her great, great granddaughter goodbye. What matters, in the end, is that she loved her family. Imperfect, old, ordinary US.”
“Adoption is beautiful and painful at the same time. But I believe the way my daughter expressed it is true for all of us: the thing that was missing is finally there.”
“Perspective takes us into the trenches of tragedy and then places us on the mountaintop, refreshed and refocused on the splendor all around us.”
“I must say goodbye to being the only one to comfort him when his heart has been hurt. I must say goodbye to being the only one to see the shimmer in his eyes when he does something for the first time he’s proud of. I must say goodbye to the little boy who grew my heart in more ways than I could ever describe. And I’ll hope and pray that it was all enough.”
“She continued, ‘Please know it had nothing to do with you.’ I’d been waiting my entire life to hear those words. The hug she gave me seemed to last forever. It was truly out of a Lifetime movie.”
“The doctor said he didn’t believe in a Hashimoto’s diagnosis and it was all in my head. I walked out of his office with tears streaming down my face. I knew deep down I wasn’t crazy and this was not the life I was meant to live.”
“The baby is being taken care of, and the mother needs to be seen, so she doesn’t disappear into a postpartum fog.”
“Let yourself breathe in fully, and exhale slowly, and just exist in the moment. There’s so much beauty hidden in the mess.”
