“He first called my friend and asked her for a date, but she said, ‘No thank you.’ Elmer then called me. I was annoyed and unsure about this Elmer guy, but I gave him a chance and said, ‘Okay, why not.’”
Lovebirds married 55 years recreate night they first met at Steak ‘n Shake in 1962
‘The most POWERFUL moment’: 6-year-old son BAWLS his eyes out watching his mom, the bride, walk down the aisle
“My sweet, soulful oldest baby boy was sharing in on this moment so deeply, with us. Taking in every breath, right along with us!”
‘I had a C-section. And it was beautiful.’
“You aren’t having a baby for the 12 hours of labor ending with a beautiful natural birth. You are having a baby for the beautiful lifetime you get to spend loving him.”
‘Life is just too short’: Lawyer mom gives up high-powered career to pursue painting ultrasounds
“Being an attorney paid the bills, but doing these baby ultrasound paintings feeds the soul.”
How this young mom’s 2-pound ‘NICU Princess’ defied the odds to grow into 17-pound ‘ball of sass’
“Having a child in the NICU is terrifying. You don’t know what the road ahead holds as your tiny child fights to live.”
‘A simple eye test saved our daughter’s life’: How a routine eye exam ended in emergency brain surgery
“He said, ‘Wow, that’s so high it must be wrong.’ But the pressures behind the eyes were not wrong.”
‘The legacy would continue’: 3 generations of women wear diamond ring found on family farm
“One day near that old tire swing, I was playing in the dirt and I saw something that made me curious. It was a small, round piece of metal and as I cleared some soil around it, I realized it was a ring.”
“I went to a baby shower. I wanted to say, this love is hard, but I didn’t.”
“Every mother there had their own bags under their eyes packed with sleeplessness and exhaustion. But all they could say is ‘you’re going to experience the greatest love you’ve ever known.'”
‘We all GASPED. This perfect, beautiful, tiny baby was completely encapsulated in his sac.’
“In the hustle of labor, I witnessed a moment that I will never forget. A moment that left me awe struck.”
‘There was no turning back’: Mom builds magical hidden room through teen’s closet
“As an only child, I had magical thoughts and feelings about hidden worlds that were there if you just looked hard enough.”
