“To find her was truly a miracle.”
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“To find her was truly a miracle.”
“I get it. I’m a lot like you, Oliver.”
“A home-made bottle of ginger ale was taken from the refrigerator to the kitchen sink to be poured out. Shelly was busy and didn’t pour it out right away. As it sat on the counter for a few days, it went from cold to warm, and it slowly fermented.”
“I finally fell asleep with the sounds of Dan’s snores in the background. At 3:40 a.m., for some odd reason, I opened my eyes. I heard silence. I ran downstairs. To this day, I have no idea why I panicked. I turned on the light to the man cave. He was right where I left him only 40 minutes earlier, still in his recliner. Only this time, I knew he wasn’t asleep.”
“Not feeling them inside me was a roller coaster of emotions. At times I felt as if this was not even happening. Having these two bundles finally lay on my chest for skin to skin contact allowed me to feel that connection with them I had missed.”
“Most of our shopping trips end in the old, ‘Let’s just go, it’s too hard, they’re tired.’ She normally leaves defeated, and without the things she needed.”
“Thank you for doing the most amazing, thankless job there is with so much love.”
“I know doubt consumes your heart and mind, nearly drowning you. I know the forbidden, dark places of your mind you’re too ashamed to allow anyone to see.”
“I would like to challenge all my farming friends, wives, husbands, families, to please fill social media with pictures and stories which PROVE how much our farmers do for their stock and produce.”
“I called a guy on the phone. He was like, ‘are you drunk?’ I said, ‘no,’ and my friends started laughing. Here I was, 24 years old, single mom of 2 boys and working 2 jobs. I was hurting and every chance I got I went to bars and drank more than I should have. I was in self-destruct mode.”