“I never pictured myself in such a place with any of my children that I may no longer have them.”
‘She shows me the beauty of the world. Through heart failure, low glucose, Down syndrome and near death, she smiles!’
‘These boys are safe, loved and above all, ours forever. We stood in front of the judge. ‘Adoption granted.’ At that moment, all the weight fell away.’: Adoptive mom knew ‘something was missing,’ says ‘faith, infertility’ were not factors
“Older children adoptions are said to have a ‘honeymoon period.’ That wonderful time where everyone is on their best behavior and all is right in the world. Ours lasted about 3 days. People have told me how lucky my boys are to have found us. I tell them they have it backwards. It’s ME who is the lucky one.”
This Mom Life Is All I Ever Hoped And Prayed For, And I Don’t Want To Miss It
“I started to think about how many other things I do every day without really noticing them. So much of this early part of motherhood becomes routine so very quickly.”
I Quit My Day Job To Be A Stay-At-Home Mom
“If there is any way you can make it work to stay home with your babies–and if your heart is called to do so–I encourage you to take that leap of faith.”
‘The past is in the past now’: Innocent man returns to Chicago White Sox after 23 years in prison
After 23 years in jail, Nevest Coleman wants to get back to work.
‘I found ‘employment.’ It was anonymous web cam sex with strangers. Anything I had to do to support the habit had to be done. I used my own daughter as a pawn.’: Mom overcomes addiction, ‘Life can be beautiful again! I promise. Don’t give up.’
“When we got ready for the ceremony. My sister put on her wedding jewelry, and in a split second, I saw her turn, and I swiped her gold necklace. On her WEDDING DAY. I pawned it, and knew I was good for another day.”
‘My father came out to me when I was 28, and he was 49’: How mom handled her dad’s gay marriage with her kids
“Whatever happens, whatever they hear, whatever they ask, we are ready. It’s not as complicated as I once imagined. Love is love. And kids understand love.”
‘I went into sheer panic. I knew something was seriously wrong.’ Mom recounts emotional twin birth after infertility battle
“I felt a gush and immediately thought, ‘Oh my gosh, my water broke!’ I felt around and my hand was covered in blood.”
My Mental Illness Makes It Hard To Be Loved
“I don’t need someone to tell me what to do or how to do it when it comes to depression or anxiety. All I want—all I truly want—is someone to just to love me through it.”
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My Kids Are Not An Inconvenience (For You)
“I will not apologize for having kids, and I won’t apologize for my kids being…kids.”
Dear Middle School Son: I Have A Few Things I’d Like You To Know
“You were designed perfectly, imperfect. You will make mistakes. Do and say dumb things. Have some regrets. But, you will also overcome.”
‘My hero doesn’t wear a cape, he wears flannel’: Farmer’s daughter brings him to tears with touching wedding day tribute
“Although I knew getting married wouldn’t change me being his little girl, and him my hero, something about him ‘giving me away’ was so hard to swallow.”
‘She lifted her head and said, ‘I hate foster care.’’: Foster mother shares candid look inside system
“We packed her up, kissed her forehead, and watched as she left our home and lives forever. My eight year daughter lay in my arms, sobbing. ‘We’re never going to see her again.'”
‘Her expression to her miracle baby girl having a baby of her own could not have been captured more perfectly’
“She lost a baby girl just 11 months before I was born, after trying for years to conceive. To get pregnant only months after the tragic loss of a child was, in my parents eyes, a gift from God.”
‘I was worried I’d never become a mother, and that was something I know I was born to be.’
“I couldn’t understand what I had done so wrong in my life to prevent me from having something that should come to my body so naturally.”
‘Did you do this with a marker? ARE YOU SERIOUS?’ Husband hilariously reacts to baby #4
“I’m sleeping with long johns on from now on!”
I Was The Perfect Mom, Until I Had Kids
“That’s when I saw you. A beautiful young woman who presumably doesn’t yet have children of her own. Another perfect (albeit, kidless) mom, just as I had been once upon a time. I recognized the look in your eyes.”
My 13-Year-Old Son Has Been Acting A Little Entitled Lately, So I Humbled Him
“He was making snarky comments about kids at school who shop at the Goodwill, and quite a few other things. I don’t tolerate that.”
Why I No Longer Tell My Child To Be Inclusive And Kind
“This child was verbally putting my child down. This child was harassing my daughter to the point that HER PEERS felt uncomfortable.”
Mom says she’s had an epidural needle stuck in her spine for 14 years: ‘It’s devastating. It’s absolutely wrong’
“I’ve never seen a piece of needle that’s broken off and left in someone’s spine. Never seen it. Never heard of it. It’s outrageous,” her attorney said.
Bullied Boy Rescues Cat With Matching Cleft Lip, Heterochromia Iridum
“We knew immediately that this kitty was meant to be part of our family.”
Foster Care Is Heartbreaking And Beautiful At The Same Time
“I upturned my one-girl, one-boy perfect little life, for one of chaos and unpredictability. I signed on to a life of continual hellos and goodbyes, one of sadness chosen and loss embraced. I dove into a life of brokenness.”
DISTURBING: ‘Want to freak yourself out? I’m gonna show how much of your information is stored without you even realizing it’
This includes tracking where you are, what apps you have installed, access to your webcam and microphone, your contacts, e-mails, calendar, call history, the messages you send and receive…
Pregnancy Is NOT An April Fools’ Joke
“What’s funny for a second in your eyes crushes someone else’s heart for eternity.”