“It was like as soon as she realized the tooth fairy wasn’t real, she got a dose of the hormone fairy which WAS real, and let me tell you – the hormone fairy is a jerk, too.”
‘My kid is a jerk. No, I’m serious.’
‘I lost my patience with your mom. I didn’t mean to. I love your mother’: Elderly husband’s anguish of feeling ‘broken’ dealing with wife’s dementia
“Dad looks up and says, ‘I lost my patience with your mom.’ I tell him he is carrying a load none of us can imagine and frustration is going to happen sometimes.”
‘Our baby girl would not survive.’: Why the day this mom gave birth to triplets was ‘the biggest regret of my life’
“I felt like a monster. What kind of mother wouldn’t want to hold her own child?”
To The Mom Who Put Her Baby On The Floor At The Airport
“I was privy to a photo taken of you without your permission.”
‘Our eyes met. They were her begging eyes. Eyes that said, ‘Help me Mama.’: Woman devastated after losing her beloved dog, ‘My heart just wasn’t ready’
“Today was a day I’ve been dreading. We’ve known the end was coming, but didn’t want it to come so fast. Just an hour after this picture, Chloe was gone. For the first time, she wasn’t here. When the kids came home from school, Wyatt asked where she was. All I could do was shake my head trying to keep my composure. It hadn’t clicked with them yet. My daughter asked if she could give Chloe another treat. We had to explain she couldn’t have treats anymore, she wasn’t here.”
Anxiety Attacks Don’t Always Look Like Hyperventilation
“It took multiple trips to the doctors, hospitals and many, MANY appointments to discover what I was suffering from was actually anxiety.”
‘What I am doing WILL make a difference!’ Teacher’s inspirational story behind the ‘greeter’ in this video proves ‘how far he has come’
“Asher has a disease. When school started, he had very limited speech.”
‘I was 95% sure I was making a mistake that would forever affect my family’: Adoptive mom’s heartfelt admission of taking in a ‘high needs child’
“He was given the prognosis of ‘probably never being able to walk, talk, or become a productive member of society.’ What does that even mean? I can’t think of a fate worse than those cold words.”
‘When I wear my Navy t-shirt, folks stop and say, ‘Thank your husband for his service.’ I AM the veteran.’: Female Navy veteran urges ‘we are equal’
‘I am the veteran, not the veteran’s wife. It’s time to go the next step and remove our unconscious bias.”
‘We said ‘I love you’ at 13. He didn’t care I wore a wig. He found me broken and put the pieces back together.’: Woman with Hodgkin’s lymphoma falls back in love with childhood crush, conceives after infertility predictions
“I remember chunks of hair falling onto my pillow. My body transformed. It took a while to look in the mirror and see my naked face with no eyebrows, yellow eyes. Sometimes I wondered if I’d ever feel better. Then afterwards, it all hits you like a train and you sit there and literally think to yourself, ‘What the heck did I just go through and how in the world did we do it?’ Life after cancer is not easy. One side effect of chemo? Infertility.”
‘I had absolutely no idea that was the last morning I would ever clean up after him.’
“We don’t realize just how meaningful a pair of combat boots by the door really are.”
It Is Not Your Job To Be A Decoration At The Beach
“I got the idea to do this project after being inundated with multiple ads every day enticing me with photos and emojis and offers to buy their product to get a ‘beach body’ or ‘bikini body’ or ‘summer body.'”
‘One day, I finally broke. I locked myself in the bathroom and cried alone until my eyes would barely open.’
“Maybe this is just what it’s like to have three kids,” I thought. “Maybe this is my new normal.”
After 2 Years, 6 Miscarriages, And 1 Failed Adoption, We Finally Have Our Son
“From the moment I saw his little tiny self laying in that bed, I knew—that was my baby.”
‘I’m going to be honest with you guys, I didn’t think I could do it.’: Single mom graduates Harvard, goes from ‘anomaly to statistic to example’
“Evelyn, they said that because of you I wouldn’t be able to do this. Just know that I did this BECAUSE OF YOU.”
‘Please don’t let my baby die’: Dallas police officer comforts 3-month-old crash victim
“Please, God, not another one tonight — and especially with kids involved.”
‘I was killing myself. I didn’t want to die’: Man loses 140 POUNDS naturally after confronting his ‘addictive personality’
“I made an appointment to have a physical done. When I saw my lab results, I knew I was in trouble.”
Dear Newborn: I Used To Have Freedom, But I Didn’t Have You
“I had my time. I had my quiet. I had my daily showers. I had my tidy home. I had my control of the remote. But not one of those things really matters, because I have you.”
‘I knew I had to capture her before it was too late.’: Daughter photographs dying mother in wake of family’s ‘tremendous loss 6 months prior’
“You don’t realize how silent a room can be when one person stops breathing… it’s deafening.”
It’s Time Public Restrooms Accommodated Fathers Caring For Children
“It’s crazy to imagine, I know, but there are guys who take care of their kids too.”
‘I’m pleading, devastated, I’m going to have to miss the flight, then this man walks up, ‘How much is it?’
“I’m glad his platform allows others to see how one small act can change someone’s day or life.”
‘I remember thinking ‘I’ll be happy when I get married.’: Woman says ‘sometimes life is simply about appreciating the drive’
“Our trajectory completely changed with the appearance of two little blue lines.”
‘She said, ‘That IS you, and when you wake up, that’s what you’ll do.’: Spider-Man visits 10,000 sick children when they need him most
“The hospital said I couldn’t visit him, but the child’s mother asked me, ‘Do you work for the hospital? Or God?’ That question stopped me in my tracks. That led me to visiting my first child ever, by sneaking my suit in my backpack, changing in a bathroom close to his room, and rushing to his side.”
Dear Daughter, You Are Coming Of Age In An Interesting Time
“Things are available to you that were not before. Glass ceilings are being shattered. Long held prejudices that for years went unquestioned are being questioned, finally. Men who committed crimes against women are being called on it. A paradigm is starting to shift, albeit slowly.”
‘I fell to the floor and screamed’: Daughter rushes to marry in dad’s hospital room ‘while he was still with us’ after brain stroke
“I told him Taylor and I were finally married and that I knew he would be proud. At that point, I knew my dad wasn’t coming back.”