“I will raise boys who know they always have a safe space to let it out. I will raise boys who know tears make them strong, not weak.”
- Love What Matters
- Family
“I will raise boys who know they always have a safe space to let it out. I will raise boys who know tears make them strong, not weak.”
“My husband’s voice cracked. ‘They found him. He’s gone.’ As we sat there in the warm night lit by citronella torches, his mother, who I’d never met, hugged me and fell into my arms. ‘It happened fast. Minutes…maybe seconds. No noise…just silently slipped away.’ I held my breath. As an autism parent, I knew the statistics.”
“We’d basically given up hope. We never asked them. They asked US. Two women wanted to help us create the family we had always wanted.”
“My son yelled from the back of our 12 passenger van, ‘So when does he move in?’ I was shocked. ‘Mom, he doesn’t have a family!’ It took one visit to decide.”
“I wanted to tell her that even though the writing on her presents looks like mine, it isn’t. I wanted to tell her that when her elf caught fire last year when he was sitting on a hot light bulb, that she didn’t smell melting plastic. She is still so little, and I wanted to savor that magic.”
“I started bleeding and my only thought was, ‘I’m losing my baby.’ But there was a heartbeat. And it was a strong one. She wanted to live.”
“It wasn’t just about our marriage. Our children gained a dad and siblings overnight. Blended. Forever.”
“Let’s give a round of applause to the unsung heroes of the family…the working dads.”
“‘HELLO! I’m in here.’ I think he knew I was ‘in’ there. I just don’t think his brain could process what he was seeing. He saw a bodacious woman, full-frontal from the waist down, wiping…her…backside.”
“I’m often asked, ‘Wasn’t it hard bringing a teen into your home?’ The hardest part was missing the first 16 years of her life. But the universe has showed me this beautiful, brown-eyed girl was supposed to be with us.”