“I hope the next generation of mommies will be just as generous. Allow me a moment to gaze, smile, reminisce, and appreciate the great privilege of getting to be Mommy.”
‘I’ll always stop and let strangers see the baby. I see myself in them.’: Mom kindly shares baby, allowing fellow mommies a chance to reminisce
‘I’m not going to tell you to savor each moment. But don’t wish away another day.’: Mom’s reminder to ‘stop wishing time away’ because you might ‘miss out’
“I’ve longed to press the fast forward button and just skip ahead to the next scene where I was sure things would be easier, better. But even when time crawls by painfully slow, it doesn’t actually slow down.”
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“Confidence isn’t the absence of doubt, but knowing you are more than your flaws.”
‘I’ve never had this.’ I asked, ‘What do you mean?,’ thinking she was referring to the pasta. ‘A meal with a family.’: Family adopt 2 daughters with Down syndrome, ‘Every child deserves a safe, stable family’
“We were asked to consider what medical conditions and/or special needs we were open to pursuing. We thoughtfully poured over the extensive needs list and then came to the conclusion if we had a biological child with special needs, we’d figure it out. And so we just said yes. To whatever child needed a family.”
Infantile Spasms Are Terrifying, But You Are Not Alone
“We try med after med, feeling like we’re racing a clock.”
‘There should not be a price for life.’: Mom determined to raise 2 million to save dying daughter with Type 1 Spinal Muscular Atrophy
“60-90% of children with this disease die before 2 years old. ‘Am I really going to lose my daughter?’ I remembered the moment I first saw her, how I said I would do anything for her. So I will. Even if it means raising 2 million dollars.”
‘The stray that wandered into my yard.’: Dog saves mom and kids from house fire, finds missing owners in the process
“If it wasn’t for him, who knows what could’ve happened.”
‘Well, dishwashing it is!’: After separated 114 days, wife becomes employee at husband’s Alzheimer’s facility so he doesn’t forget her
“I promised him I would be with him every single day and hold his hand every step of the way. There had to be something I could do. When I walked through the door, he turned around and the first thing he said was, ‘Mary.'”
‘I’m the machine and he takes care of me. He’s the oil to our well-tuned ride. His devotion is the gasoline.’: Wife praises husband for selfless devotion
“A mother’s love is selfless, without a shadow of a doubt. But the heart of a man who still gives 110% fully knowing he will never have that much of you again, knowing that sacred place now belongs to, or is shared with, his children? That’s special.”
‘It has to be done.’: 84-year-old plays honorary ‘Taps’ tune at more than 2,400 veteran funerals
“Phil will play the bugle and taps until he can no longer hold a note. And even then, the music will carry on.”