“The fire pit was about 5 feet away. I stood up to get a better view and what I saw would haunt me. I wanted so badly to end his pain.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“The fire pit was about 5 feet away. I stood up to get a better view and what I saw would haunt me. I wanted so badly to end his pain.”
“There is really no taming the strong-willed child without blowing out their fire. Instead, let us embrace it for the good.”
“The idea my children would one day have to seek refuge in the arms of some stranger’s mother… my goodness, that just wrecks me.”
“We hadn’t had contact with her for weeks. We were basically waiting with our phones for the call. We booked a flight and moved forward, not knowing the outcome. When we arrived, we found a nurse. ‘Let’s go meet your baby!’”
“I hid her from it for as long as I could. I was 15 weeks pregnant when he abandoned us. He’d see her Friday. I couldn’t lie anymore. My heart shattered, and I had to force myself to hold back the tears.”
“I’ve been out today once and heard it all in the space of twenty minutes. Masks don’t muffle your voice as much as you think.”
“The waitlists for qualified providers are years long. Others who have no idea what it’s like to sit in an ER for days waiting for a psych bed to open insist your child’s symptoms of mental illness are a result of ‘bad parenting.’ Or worse, your child just being ‘bad.'”
“I tell her I’m taking him to the bedroom, turning on my favorite show, and he is mine for the next hour or two.”
“’We have a 2-month-old baby boy, failure to thrive.’ I had never seen anything like him. My husband had tears in his eyes as the caseworker filled us in. They didn’t expect him to do much. That sweet baby boy had given up, but we were not giving up on him.”
“I will acknowledge it as the day I married a man who is no longer my love, but who will always be in my life. And I will celebrate the 3 children we share. Till death do us part still stands, only in another form.”