“It’s about way more than money. If this is any indication of what the future holds, I could not be more excited.”

“It’s about way more than money. If this is any indication of what the future holds, I could not be more excited.”
“A little piece of me needed them. While my husband held me and let me sob out my disappointment over the lack of Sour Cream and Onion Ruffles, we both understood that it wasn’t really about the chips at all.”
“Yet nearly every morning, my husband makes and brings me a cuppa.”
“Maybe making you feel loved, safe, and secure has nothing to do with routine, or with schedules. Maybe, just maybe, it has everything to do with us.”
“My right arm had ballooned so much, it looked like my thigh. My doctor told me I had over-iced it. A small piece of metal oozed from the surgical opening. ‘How do I know you didn’t make it up?’ I was ashamed to say my doctor was bullying me.”
“Because one day, you’re going on three walks—and the next you’re hiding outside in your parked car. One day, you can start a project or two, and the next you can be too tired to even function.”
“We may not be your parents or grandparents or siblings or aunts or uncles. We are not the people who can tell stories about when you were born or say, ‘I remember when you were a baby, and now look at you!’ But we are rooting for you anyway.”
“We know how much our mistakes hurt you, but we need grace in these uncharted waters. This quarantine has been like gasoline to our old habits. We’re not okay.”
“I felt I did not deserve because I had done everything I was supposed to avoid getting sick and felt cheated. If my children did something that scared me, I would yell and shame them for it. I wasn’t just irritable, I was angry.”
“I never comment on anyone’s body because I know. You’re right. I have put on weight. She meant it as a compliment.”