“I had to hide my youthful giddiness and play it cool. The older, wiser mom will tell you the toddler years are the best of all. That in the blink of an eye, our kids will be mini-adults and the days of cuddles and air-blown kisses will be gone. NO ONE tells you the cool things that happen.”
‘I have a lot more respect for you now, mom.’ ‘My daughter turned to me and spoke the words I’d been waiting my entire life to hear!’ Mom explains why the ‘teenager years’ are her favorite stage yet
‘I stood and watched from afar. He found the one man in the mall he felt deserved recognition and a ‘thank you.’ A man wearing a Navy veteran’s hat.’
“Without hesitation, he respectfully stood before that man who came 50 years before him, and told him he could rest easy, and that his generation would take it from there. All those sleepless nights, all the tears — magically disappeared. It suddenly became worth it.”
‘We have that number beat!’ Massachusetts fire department has 9 BABIES born in less than a year, ‘fire wives’ strike up healthy competition
“2 of which were even born on the same day! This department is on fire!”
‘Babies having babies.’ That’s what I heard my doctor say as I lay in premature labor at 17 years old, as If I wasn’t terrified enough already.
“I made a decision that evening as I laid in the hospital bed ready to bring my son into the world. I was going to prove that doctor wrong.”
‘Would I ever feel un-wrecked?’ Daughter’s realization about her ‘know-it-all’ younger self after dad’s death
“Losing a parent young was like being pummeled by a tidal wave. I didn’t know who I was becoming and often wished I could just take. it. all. back.”
