“I text him: ‘I’m not doing well. Come home now.’ He will because I have a fractured back! He calls. I’m still crying happy tears, but they sound sad when I say: ‘I need you home.’ Not lying. Those are true statements. He is coming straight home. Success! Praise the Lord for this fractured back. I couldn’t believe that a baby survived my fall, the pain killers, the almost X-ray fiasco, and yet it had.”
“His mom was homeless and couldn’t care for him. ‘That is the saddest thing ever. Do you think that is our baby?’ Off I went. ‘Is everything OK?,’ I asked. They replied, ‘He’s waiting for you in the NICU. He’s yours.’”
“After a couple of our surrogate options did not work out, we started to take my mother-in-law more seriously.”
“We had one day with the thought of infertility being a distant memory and not a devastating reality.”
“We never gave up. We never stopped fighting for you.”
“This kid has more kindness, empathy, and emotional intelligence than many people quadruple his age.”
“Because of Tornado – I know everything will be okay.”
