“These children need a safe space. They need stories, role models, and opportunities to explore and practice who they are growing up to be.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“These children need a safe space. They need stories, role models, and opportunities to explore and practice who they are growing up to be.”
“On a regular morning, I wake up with a foot in my face, a head on my chest, and someone screaming in my ear or sitting on my head and saying, ‘Mommy wake up!’ Because our children won’t always want us around, to share a small space, to snuggle.”
“I hope she knows nothing about being a mom came organically to me. But mommy tries so very hard.”
“16 is you being even more effortlessly you. Even if you can’t see it.”
“I never knew love like this, until I met you.”
“We call him ‘Hearo Harrison’ because he has his own superpower—his magic ears.”
“It’s been almost 2 years since they lost their mommy. I used to fight it. I’d tell them they’d get better rest in their own beds. To give it a chance. That their beds are more comfortable than my floor. It took me almost 2 years, but I get it now.”
“I know what it’s like to join the conversation, only to feel the air in the room slowly dissipate. I know what it’s like to open up about your day, only to have someone quickly change the subject to something more ‘light.’ It makes us feel invisible.”
“I drove by the hospital you were born at the other day. Isn’t it strange how places hold our memories too?”