“Not willing to accept this as my new normal or wait for happiness to just HAPPEN to me, I started being honest with myself and others and decided to depend on the only person that could truly control my happiness… ME.”
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‘There are children who need a safe place, how can I ignore that?’ We couldn’t hold our hearts back.’: Mom diagnosed with mast cell disease grows family through foster care, adoption
“Foster care is a lot like a rose garden. These children are worth the wait and effort. They are worth the pin-pricks from the thorns.”
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“Regardless of your next career move, no one can take your past experience away from you. As long as you know who you are and what’s important to you, you are not throwing ANYTHING away.”
‘His diagnoses read like the a la carte menu at a restaurant. Our lives became an endless stream of acronyms.’: Mom shares 16-year journey to son’s rare SYNGAP1 diagnosis
“There, for the very first time, was Andrew’s entire diagnostic story. The decoder we’ve been searching for most of his life. Every milestone missed, every seizure suffered, every hospitalization, every moment his body betrayed him, every detail down to his clumsy gait, summarized in 12pt Times New Roman.”
‘I was still in bed when my husband burst into the room and cried, ‘Max is gone!’: Mother of son who died by suicide shares lessons learned in grief
“I’ve learned much in the two years since Max passed. We’re each doing the best we can.”
‘I can’t stand to live anything less than my full truth anymore.’: Bisexual man shares coming out journey
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear. For a long time, I was scared to acknowledge and accept parts of myself.”
‘To the mama who is doing EVERYTHING, but feels like it’s never enough.’: Special needs mom pens open letter to parents with ‘difficult journey’
“I know this is not the parenting journey you had imagined when you chose to start a family, but it is the one you were born to do.”
‘The last thing he said to me was in a text hours before he passed. ‘Goodnight sweet princess.’: Daughter shares grief journey after sudden loss of father
“The restaurant’s phone rang, and I answered the way I would any other call, ‘Thank you for calling Pizza Nea, how can I help you?’ My mother on the other end answered with one word, ‘Emily…’ The tone of the word alone—my name—sent the blood out of my face.”
‘The doctor said he was one of the most extreme cases of ADHD she had ever seen.’: Mom shares then and now of son’s journey with ADHD
“We still are learning, but we are taking this on with all we have and doing our best.”
‘Placement needed after all, kids are on the way. We’ll be there in 20 minutes.’: Couple shares foster care journey with sibling sets, teens, reunifications
“When I think of our foster care journey everything is truly dialectic. It is love and it is frustration, it is depleting and it is rewarding, it is heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once.”