“My in-laws said, ‘She will never be OUR family.’ I questioned how I could go on.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“My in-laws said, ‘She will never be OUR family.’ I questioned how I could go on.”
“As long as it means a child is safe and loved, I’m willing for my heart to be broken, over and over again.”
“I told my husband I was heading to the hospital for fluids. ‘Same story, different day?’ The nurse turned the monitors away from me. That’s when everything changed.”
“I just want you to know you can say, ‘My kids were jerks today.'”
“I was fighting an addiction placed upon me by my doctor. I didn’t know what I was going to do. I go out there all the time to search for him.”
“I drove out in the middle of nowhere. My plan was to hit a tree at a high rate of speed. And then my daughter called me.”
“‘She looks like she has Down syndrome.’ I quickly brushed it off and told him he was overreacting. Then the pediatrician came in.”
“‘This is it! We’re going to be a forever family!’ Hector ran towards me and jumped in my arms. He hugged me and squeezed me tight as he said, ‘I love you so much, I love you so, so much.’ There he was, the one I had cried, prayed, and hoped for.”
“The social worker said, ‘This is the largest file I have.’ So much was going on. There was an intense amount of outer, anger, and lies. It broke me she was legally an orphan.”
“I walked to my car, sobbing. This wasn’t the news I had expected. Suddenly, every scenario of my daughter growing up without a mom went flashing through my mind.”