“My eyes filled with tears. I couldn’t believe my prayer was being answered in the midst of heartache.”
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“My eyes filled with tears. I couldn’t believe my prayer was being answered in the midst of heartache.”
“Fly high baby girl. You fought so hard and touched so many lives.”
“Putting kids and elders together is an instant opportunity for everyone to win.”
“This beautiful angel is our daughter. We are co-parents. I am the ‘Bonus-Mom,’ and she is her ‘Bio-Mom.’ Here we stand together, all smiles, at OUR daughter’s wedding. Was it a walk in the park? No. Were there nights of doubt, jealousy and confusion? Yes. Did we always see eye to eye? No. However, we both pressed forward for OUR daughter.”
“When you hear the word cancer, all you think about is your family and everything you never did. Once the shock wears off, you put on your big girl pants and fight like hell.”
“Owynn had no clue. It was the best Christmas gift ever.”
“He bent forward and shook as if he was collapsing on himself. I did not know what was happening, and then I realized he was crying.”
“I text him: ‘I’m not doing well. Come home now.’ He will because I have a fractured back! He calls. I’m still crying happy tears, but they sound sad when I say: ‘I need you home.’ Not lying. Those are true statements. He is coming straight home. Success! Praise the Lord for this fractured back. I couldn’t believe that a baby survived my fall, the pain killers, the almost X-ray fiasco, and yet it had.”
“His mom was homeless and couldn’t care for him. ‘That is the saddest thing ever. Do you think that is our baby?’ Off I went. ‘Is everything OK?,’ I asked. They replied, ‘He’s waiting for you in the NICU. He’s yours.’”
“Right around the time as the miscarriage, we also found out Ben would be deploying for 9 months to Afghanistan. Knowing he would be gone a lot for training between April and when he left in September, we didn’t think it was likely I would get pregnant again before he left, and figured we’d have to wait another year to even start trying for a baby again. Three days before, I decided to test again. To my surprise, it was positive! I was pregnant!”