“At checkout, I realized I’d misplaced my debit card, but no biggie! I also had my husband’s. Well, I used the wrong PIN, so the bank marked it as stolen, and our bank account froze. I cried and said some choice words. And that’s when it decided to storm.”
“Don’t just be kind, be inclusive. Be friends.”
“Days later, she called me hysterical because her throat hurt so bad. The doctor said, ’24 hours without medicine and this could have been tragic.’ We are in a new normal that is not so normal. Parenting is not for the faint of heart.”
“’Where do you think you’re going looking like THAT?’ I didn’t listen to my instincts. He made me think no one loved me. I had to set myself free.”
“I was the youngest at the doctor’s by 30 years. My pain got worse. I heard my husband cry for me in the hallway.”
“Please do not complain about having to wear a mask around my baby. YOU DO NOT KNOW unless you’ve had a pandemic baby.”
“Rather than bring an innocent child into this world only to suffer and die, we made the heart-wrenching decision no parent should ever have to make. I am not an irresponsible monster. I am a grieving mother who spared her baby unspeakable suffering.”
“Many humans sleepwalk through their lives. I feel the wild euphoria of my child putting on a sock.”
“At 2 a.m. this morning, as my daughter snuggled into me, I told her stories about bunnies, fields of flowers… Nothing worked. We are protective about what our tender-hearted children see. We are cautious. When I was 9, I watched a movie that traumatized me around the same age. We will not toughen her up.”
“I’ve gained 30 pounds during quarantine. I can’t button my pants anymore. It’s hard to look in the mirror. And I’ve been stuck at my home with nothing but my thoughts and my new adult body.”
