“She says she wants more nice photos of herself and the boys. I guess she just wants to be part of the story too… And she deserves to be part of the story. She’s the BIGGEST part of the story.”
‘She’s captured 24,000 photos of our family in less than one year. But barely any of them have her in it.’
‘Huge tears rolled down my cheek. I was immediately taken back to the day my 6-year old son passed away’: Triggered by one sound, mom recalls her painful ‘dance with grief’
“Grief snuck up on me, grabbing me from behind, suffocating me. I closed my eyes, familiar with this feeling. I’ve been dancing with grief for 12 years and it still consumes me when I least expect it, spinning me out of control.”
‘So, I had colon cancer, thyroid cancer, and now I may not be able to and I wouldn’t be able to have children? It was too much.’
“My sister-in-law, was with me at the appointment where they told me I wouldn’t be able to have children. She told me she felt God telling her that she would help us start a family. She reached out and told us she wanted to volunteer as a surrogate for us.”
My Daughter Was Born The Size Of A Coke Can
“Though she may be little, she is fierce.”
‘It’s confirmed, you are having quadruplets.’ We then understood why we had to wait to receive our miracles.’: Couple struggling with infertility become pregnant with four babies, ‘He looked like he was going to faint’
“He didn’t guarantee a successful pregnancy, but it was worth a try. I had seen so many negative pregnancy tests in the past that it was almost impossible for me to see the positive in this one. ‘Triplets, you are having triplets!’ And then he says, ‘the fourth sac will probably vanish since I didn’t hear a heartbeat.’”
3-year-old tearfully clutches her ‘Daddy Doll,’ asks mom ‘why did he have to leave?’
“Never could I have prepared myself for explaining to her it is okay to be sad, it is okay to cry and to be mad. And it is okay that your heart hurts.”
‘Men and women from nearby streets and businesses rushed to the van and used their bodies to stabilize it.’ Strangers rush accident scene, take heroic action
“When I realized what was happening, I was drawn to it the same as lots of people and I wanted to share what I witnessed.”
This Is For The Dads Who Show Up
“Children won’t remember that you were scared at their births, a little jealous of Mom, that you came home spent, that you would have rather been watching the game…”
Heart bursting alert: ‘Do I have a dog?’ Grandma with Alzheimer’s surprised with rescue dog after ‘begging her husband for years’
“Her reaction made all the worries, stresses and horrible parts of this disease disappear. Her tears of joy and unconditional, immediate love for him confirmed what we knew all along: dogs really are the greatest creatures on this earth.”
‘I knew in that moment we lost one’: Couple’s journey through 2 years of fertility treatments, 389 IVF shots, 3 heart wrenching miscarriages
“I was blaming myself- how could I have been so excited and not even have felt that one of my babies stopped breathing inside of me?”