“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.”
‘Mom, I know it’s hard. I love you two more than you think.’ I felt like a failure.’: Autism mom shares ode to daughter, ‘I wonder if she knows how incredibly special she is’
‘Are they all from the same father?’ I told him I’d love to have 6 babies, but here we are with 11.’: Mom of 11 shares the challenges and beauty of big family life
“‘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.”
‘What’s lor-aze-pum?’ I decided to tell them the truth. It’s life. It’s reality.’: Mom shares lesson in vulnerability, ‘Even if it’s uncomfortable, it’s okay to ask for help’
“If they ask me about something, I will simply tell them. Only the most bad*ss people I know allow themselves to be vulnerable.”
‘I was 20 pounds over the weight limit. ’This is it, Bekkah. You have to change.’: Mom credits ‘the power of a mother’s love’ with kickstarting incredible weight loss journey
“After just under 30 pounds of weight loss, I became pregnant. I was terrified. I had not been below 300 pounds in five years, but I knew what I needed to do.”
There’s No Prize For Burnt Out Mother Of The Year, Take A F**king Break
“You don’t get kudos for trying to do it all while neglecting your health.”
‘If my boys were sick or struggling, I wondered if this was a curse because they weren’t meant to be here.’: Mom battling infertility has IVF twins and speaks about guilt
“‘Are they natural?’ Which really means, ‘Did you make these twins by yourself, or did you need help?’ I couldn’t run from the fact that nature, or God, never intended me to be a mom.”
‘Your daughter’s heart will have to be stopped to repair it.’: Mom shares daughter’s diagnoses of VSD, Aorta Coarctation, thankful ‘her surgery is just a distant memory’
“How could such a small heart already have to stop beating? All I wanted was for them to just stop mine instead. I wanted them to take my heart to fix hers.”
‘I said to my 16-year-old, ‘If something ever happens to me and dad, don’t be surprised if I end up with a woman.’: Mom of 4 comes out, ‘I finally came home to myself’
“I craved a level of intimacy in which he wasn’t capable of giving. He’d say, ‘If you want that, you need to be with a woman.’”
‘She struggled to get out of bed. It was like giving up her own child.’: Foster dad shares his appreciation for his wife’s role, ‘I am so proud of the heart she has’
“I take it for granted until I am the one sitting in the courthouse waiting an hour for a 10-minute hearing. There is still so much I cannot make up for.”
‘We’re here for you.’ Foster care isn’t all broken or messy.’: Foster mom reflects on the beauty of foster care, ‘It’s not all hard’
“I am rooting and fighting for them to leave me and for my heart to be ripped apart. It is priceless, heartbreaking, and beautiful.”