“’Mom. I need a phone. If I have one, I can call you if a shooter comes to my school.’”
‘She looked at me with no emotion. ‘It just happens. All my life it just happens.’ My 11-year-old is numb.’: Mom shares harrowing conversation with daughter after Uvalde school shooting
‘When I got home, there were three cop cars outside. He didn’t even get to see his first Father’s Day.’: Widow overcomes grief to find new love after losing husband to drunk driver
“There is life after loss. It is possible to live in the here and now and still honor and respect what was.”
Traditional English Meat And Potato Pies (Pasties)
“This recipe came with my family when they immigrated from Cornwall, England to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.”
‘Sometimes babies cry. As long as they’re changed and fed, they don’t always need to be figured out.’: Mom shares newborn parenting advice
“When I started seeing my baby as a human and not some complicated newborn, figuring out her needs no longer seemed like such a mystery.”
‘I Looked To My Left And No Longer Saw My Arm.’: Teen Shares New Outlook On Life After ATV Accident
“When people came to visit me they were shocked at how positive I was. I told them that the most important thing was that I made it out alive, not my missing arm.”
‘The whole exchange took 2 minutes, but my life would be marked by this moment forever.’: Single mom shares unexpected foster care adoption of baby girl
“She was in a little yellow nightgown onesie and it was way too big for her. I signed some paperwork, got her out of the car, and the case worker handed me a diaper bag packed by a local church. That was it.”
‘In a year and a half, our family of 2 grew to 6.’: Couple share foster care adoption story, premature triplet birth after infertility
“Brycen didn’t know about us until two days before our first visit, to protect him from having high hopes ripped away again. He’d experienced many adults not keeping promises, so he kept questioning if we were really going to adopt him.”
I Say A Prayer At Drop Off
“It shouldn’t be this way. This I know. Yet here we are. I don’t want to let you go.”
‘It looks like a harmless weed.’: Mom warns of poison hemlock after daughter suffers severe reaction
“We decided to do a walk around our property to look for any plants that could have given her this bad of a reaction. And then…we found it. Our property (and all of our neighbor’s properties) were lined with hundreds of them.”
Motherhood Is Filled With Contradictions
“It causes constant guilt while bringing us infinite joy. It is filled with uncertainty and fear, while also showing us strength we didn’t know existed. We teach and guide our kids, but our kids are our greatest teachers of all.”