“People often ask how I stay so patient. The truth is, I don’t. Not always. But all I know is that he still needs me to get to sleep.”
My Son Still Needs To Be Cuddled To Sleep At 4 Years Old
‘She ate less than a bite of hummus before her 1st birthday and ended up with swollen eyelids and face, hives all over her body, projectile vomiting, and extreme drowsiness.’
“The scariest moments of my life so far have been seeing my baby having this reaction. Knowing this could happen again, and possibly with a worse outcome is terrifying.”
‘There are moments I just want to walk away from it all. But even more I want to walk away from the super hard parts of parenting.’
“I am ridiculously unqualified for most of what I do each day and I sometimes find myself looking around for an actual grown up.”
‘I was lost at 4 a.m. I needed help and this man assured me he could help me get home. In a puddle of my own blood, he left me in the dark.’: Woman recounts attack while traveling internationally
“He called out in Spanish, “I have your phone, you can’t call anyone.”
A Stranger At The Grocery Store Taught Me A Parenting Lesson I’ll Never Forget
“I was pushing my shopping cart filled with children and food when an older gentleman approached us. He looked straight at me and said, ‘I want to tell you something.’”
‘I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store. I had just had my third baby a month earlier. I will never forget what happened while we were waiting.’: Woman receives important life lesson from total stranger
“I turned back toward my grocery cart to begin putting my items on the conveyor with one arm while using the other to hold the baby and keep track of the two big kids. To my alarm, my cart was nearly empty.”
‘This weekend we had our first date together since March. Not halfway through and the sitter texted that one of the kids was throwing up.’
“We made guesses on how long until the rest of us caught the bug, and we contemplated how much extra to pay the babysitter for having to deal with a sick kid. But here’s the thing….”
‘My mom wanted me to take photos of her, but on one condition…’
“I call this series ‘Grandma: Gone Wild’. She gave them to my Dad for Christmas tonight… Check out his adorable schoolboy reaction at the end!”
‘I remember waking up and wondering why Mike and my mother were talking about something random and not the baby. What happened to the baby?’
“They told us many times that our best option was to take his breathing tube out and he would either pass in my arms or thrive.”
‘We discovered more than 100 kids lived there, 100 kids just like us.’
“Then came the biggest surprise of all.”