“As you buy the backpack, and the crayons, and do all the school preparation things, please do the most important thing.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“As you buy the backpack, and the crayons, and do all the school preparation things, please do the most important thing.”
“We received a call from our little girl’s bio grandma. CPS had a baby girl in foster care a few hours away. ‘I was hoping you’d be able to take her.’ Siblings are meant to be together. And as much as they needed each other, we needed her too.”
“‘I get it.’ The high school years terrified me, but I decided to not play only the mom role.”
“I received a text, ‘Just wanted to say I LOVE YOU!!! And I’m SO incredibly proud of you and who you are.’ She came home when I fulfilled my promise to accomplish my dreams.”
“When they brought him to me for the first time, I looked at him and said, ‘I’ve been waiting for you.’ I felt like I could finally breathe again, like my life was complete and my heart was whole. I look at him every single day in awe.”
“‘Do you have a name for this baby?’ I have never loved someone so unconditionally while, at the same time, feeling immense gratitude for her sacrifice.”
“I wanted some me time. Scratch that, I NEEDED some me time. Still, I couldn’t turn him away. You see, this lockdown and remote learning isn’t boding well with him. He needed to know I was there, needed to know he could count on me.”
“I was 12 when my mom died. My youngest sibling was a baby, just learning how to walk. It was Easter and she was taken by a brain aneurysm. Gone. At 35. No explanation. I successfully blocked it out of my mind for 20+ years. Attempting to protect my heart. It worked…until it didn’t.”
“I was completely shattered. I’d known him 14 years, been together 13 years. We had a beautiful family home, a crazy dog who we rescued, and to complete our little family, our newborn daughter.”
“In the many years before my daughter, I came to my beach for answers.”