“Whatever happens, whatever they hear, whatever they ask, we are ready. It’s not as complicated as I once imagined. Love is love. And kids understand love.”
‘My father came out to me when I was 28, and he was 49’: How mom handled her dad’s gay marriage with her kids
‘I went into sheer panic. I knew something was seriously wrong.’ Mom recounts emotional twin birth after infertility battle
“I felt a gush and immediately thought, ‘Oh my gosh, my water broke!’ I felt around and my hand was covered in blood.”
My kids are not an inconvenience (for you)
“I told her we have four kids. She looked at me square in the eyes. ‘I guess that will be okay, as long as they are quiet.’ She was dead serious.”
‘To my middle school son, I have a few things I’d like you to know’
“You were designed perfectly, imperfect. You will make mistakes. Do and say dumb things. Have some regrets. But, you will also overcome.”
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.”
