“You were designed perfectly, imperfect. You will make mistakes. Do and say dumb things. Have some regrets. But, you will also overcome.”
‘To my middle school son, I have a few things I’d like you to know’
She lifted her head and looked at me: ‘I hate foster care.’
“We packed her up, kissed her forehead, and watched as she left our home and lives forever. My eight year daughter lay in my arms, sobbing. ‘We’re never going to see her again.'”
‘Her expression to her miracle baby girl having a baby of her own could not have been captured more perfectly’
“She lost a baby girl just 11 months before I was born, after trying for years to conceive. To get pregnant only months after the tragic loss of a child was, in my parents eyes, a gift from God.”
‘I was worried I’d never become a mother, and that was something I know I was born to be.’
“I couldn’t understand what I had done so wrong in my life to prevent me from having something that should come to my body so naturally.”
‘Did you do this with a marker? ARE YOU SERIOUS?’ Husband hilariously reacts to baby #4
“I’m sleeping with long johns on from now on!”
I was the perfect mom. Until I had kids.
“That’s when I saw you. A beautiful young woman who presumably doesn’t yet have children of her own. Another perfect (albeit, kidless) mom, just as I had been once upon a time. I recognized the look in your eyes.”
Why I no longer tell my child to be inclusive and kind
“This is the school counselor, and I’m calling about your daughter.”
Bullied boy rescues cat with same unique traits: ‘Funny how a pet can make you feel less alone’
“Funny how a pet can make you feel less alone. Moon helps Madden realize that being born unique in an incredible thing; that he is magic.”
‘Foster Care is Broken. I Am Broken.’
“I upturned my one-girl, one-boy perfect little life, for one of chaos and unpredictability. I signed on to a life of continual hellos and goodbyes, one of sadness chosen and loss embraced. I dove into a life of brokenness.”
DISTURBING: ‘Want to freak yourself out? I’m gonna show how much of your information is stored without you even realizing it’
This includes tracking where you are, what apps you have installed, access to your webcam and microphone, your contacts, e-mails, calendar, call history, the messages you send and receive…
