“I simply wrote, ‘This little girl needs her brother or sister. Can anyone help?’ And you know what? Someone replied.”
‘I lost the baby.’: Mom thanks ‘miracle’ surrogate after being diagnosed with same pregnancy complication as Kate Middleton
‘This was not in my plan.’: Mom’s difficult time accepting son attending college 13 hours away
“I have grown up and gone to school my whole life with people who basically look like me, think like me and believe the same things I believe, and that’s not the real world.”
‘It was a shock to both of us.’: Couple with 23-year age difference fall in love after losing children on same day
“It seemed like more than just a coincidence. It was fate saying, ‘Here is someone who knows how you are feeling.'”
Grandma’s Dying Wish To See Beloved Granddaughter Wed Comes True
“A few days later, at 5:00 a.m., my phone was buzzing. I turned over in bed and saw my mom was calling. At that moment, I knew exactly what it was.”
Kids’ Work Ethic Is In A Crisis And We, The Parents, Have A Lot To Do With It
Work ethic is similar to a muscle. It can be strengthened with proper training, or weakened with misuse.
‘He couldn’t stand. His legs were completely limp.’: Mom donates kidney to save medically-complex son
“And so, it began, test after test, specialist after specialist.”
‘You’re moving way too fast. If he loves you, he’ll wait.’ Were we crazy? Maybe. But were we in love? Absolutely!’: Couple move in together after 6 weeks of dating, get married 6 weeks later
“I was pushed into signing up for Match.com by a friend. For 3 weeks, I received message after message from guys who didn’t understand that my kids came first. But one day, I received a message from a man who took the time to read my profile and challenged me to prove that I did, in fact, make the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. Little did I know it would change the course of the rest of my life.”
‘This Mother’s Day I will close my eyes and she will be whole.’: Daughter reflects on ‘gifts of memories’ before mom had dementia
“In my memories, she is laughing with me. She says my name. She walks to me. She laughs at her Mother’s Day card.”
‘Everybody is grieving. That’s why.’ Widow embraces beauty of strangers who supported her during funeral procession
“I’ll be honest, I had to sit back and ask myself why. Why would all these people come out to stand in the hot sun and hold signs and cry for a man that they never had dinner with, never had a beer with, never even had a conversation with. Why would they do that?”
A Letter To My Little Brother Living With A Disability
“Dear Isaac, I know you can’t ever read this but maybe one day I will read it to you. Maybe one day you will understand.”