“Every year since, I’d find a moment to shake my fist at the sky…until this year.”
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“Every year since, I’d find a moment to shake my fist at the sky…until this year.”
“I was told her heart defect was so severe there was a likelihood she wouldn’t make it to full-term. If she did, she may not survive birth. And if she did, they wouldn’t be able to perform surgery due to the complexity of the defect.”
“‘Are those happy tears or…?,’ the sonographer cautiously asked me as I sobbed upon the realization we were expecting our second set of twins.”
“I had no idea how obsessed I’d be with another being’s poop and pee.”
“We had learned to function on ingenuity and instincts, but we always found a way. Life became stable, imperfect, and ours.”
“I made it to the top, but unfortunately, that was not the goal as my six-year-old was now halfway around the circular death trap and looking to see what was taking Old Lady River so long.”
“This time of the year, we’ll see smiling, shining faces on Instagram, holiday cards, maybe at parties, or in pictures sent between phones. But what you don’t see is it took us two tries (1.5 hours apart) to finally light candles together because of a tantrum.”
Being a member of a world-famous marching band involves a lot more than simply being a great musician.
“If I was out there on the streets, homeless, I would want somebody, at some point, to think of me.”
Neffiteria teaches math and science at Gideons Elementary School, but her students are getting a lot more than just book-learning in her class.