“Our doctor joked about the possibility of seeing triplets on the ultrasound. I was dizzy, so very dizzy. I laid down on the table and exposed my stomach. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready for my heart to be broken again. He put the wand on my stomach, and I knew instantly. I couldn’t see a baby. My doctor was quiet. I told him there was nothing there. It wasn’t a question. I knew.”
“He didn’t know who we were at times. He didn’t know where he was. He couldn’t do anything independently. But he knew he had things to do. The lawnmower blade needed sharpening, the hay needed to be bailed. He had work to do.”
“I never intended to walk out of that flight with anything other than my carry on.”
“I noticed he was getting super clumsy. But he was a toddler, and most toddlers are naturally wobbly. Yet this felt different. He was holding on to the wall when he would walk, sometimes he would just fall right over. It was strange.”
“Don’t panic if you see blood in your milk! I know it is alarming.”
“I saw a woman walking across the shore. I thought she was a dream. I screamed, ‘HEEELLLPPPPP!’ I couldn’t believe they were real. I couldn’t believe we had finally found each other.”
“I asked if this was the same child I had seen in on the news, and she confirmed it. I knew in that moment I had to put my whole heart in it for this family.”
“Earlier this week we went to get Zeke’s senior yearbook pictures. On the way, I noticed his hands. Working hands.”
“Easton lost his mom to an overdose, and then we both lost our father 12 days later to pancreatic cancer. Today marks the day that he has officially spent more time with us, than he ever did with his biological parents. Let that sink in.”
“The big moment will come. Everyone will be looking at her, but I’ll be looking at you.”
