“I did something this morning that most of you will probably think is bad parenting. But as she walked into school with a smile on her face, I thought, ‘This seems right. I want to do more of this.'”
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“I did something this morning that most of you will probably think is bad parenting. But as she walked into school with a smile on her face, I thought, ‘This seems right. I want to do more of this.'”
“If you are the friend of someone who has lost a close loved one, I’m begging you to check in on them. Just because they’re able to ‘do life’ doesn’t mean they are magically healed.”
“Being adopted is hard and being Korean-American is hard, so having both of those experiences intersect can be confusing and painful at times. Now I’m a lot more open about the ups and downs of being adopted and the reality of being a racial minority.”
“This kid is my freaking hero.”
“I was often cornered and assaulted during school. I would eat cold, bland school sandwiches soaked with my tears in the bathroom stall. Then the man I wrote about in my journals suddenly surfaced into my reality.”
“Abuse at home, bullying at school, and the anguish of mental illness are the seeds from which addiction grows. So before you pass judgment on me, let me show you my roots.”
There is beauty in every pregnancy journey.
“It feels like life just didn’t exist before this. Who knew before I was even healed from my C-section incision, my husband and I would be going to a funeral home to discuss cremation options for our 2-week-old baby girl?”
“When he came into the room he said, ‘How are you?’ I hugged him and said, ‘I’m so scared.’ I was not ready and my babies certainly weren’t either.”
“It’s a privilege to love someone with Down syndrome. But to be loved BY someone with Down syndrome, now that is just pure magic.”