“They need someone to hold them at night to mend the holes in their hearts. They need someone to say, ‘It’s going to be okay,’ when tears come, or ‘Good job, buddy,’ when they start pedaling their tricycle on their own.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“They need someone to hold them at night to mend the holes in their hearts. They need someone to say, ‘It’s going to be okay,’ when tears come, or ‘Good job, buddy,’ when they start pedaling their tricycle on their own.”
“My parents freaked out. ‘You’ll ruin your family.’ I was only doing what my mother had done for my parents. We hugged so hard when those two pink lines finally appeared.”
“There was a miscommunication about bringing my son lunch at school, and as a result, he was upset. I felt awful. The incident was small, but it pushed me over the edge. And I EXPLODED.”
“It was the happiest day of our lives, yet we had to grieve the loss of our future children. I have never loved another woman’s bump as much as I loved hers.”
“Why does EVERYTHING have sleeves? The feeling of being inadequate hit me like a freight train. I didn’t sleep. I didn’t eat. ‘How are we supposed to raise a child with no arms?’”
“‘I have something I want to tell you, but I don’t know how, so I’m just going to say it.’ I replied, ‘Go for it sister!’ She changed our lives FOREVER.”
“Breastfeeding a toddler amidst mounds of laundry is an average daily task. Just because we make it LOOK easy, doesn’t mean it is.”
“She let me sleep when she got up and wanted breakfast. She shut my door, then turned on his show and got him a drink. I wonder if she knows the guilt I felt.”
“‘Do you own a TV?’ If I had a dollar for every time we were asked that, we would be rich. We have days when we don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but that’s the best part of having a big family.”
“If they ask me about something, I will simply tell them. Only the most bad*ss people I know allow themselves to be vulnerable.”