“Our son was worried. When I told him the birth mom would be the one bringing his brother in and handing him to us, he asked why she had to do it. He said, ‘Won’t she be sad?’”
‘He got to meet his little brother for the first time. He had waited a long time for this moment. Adoption is beautiful.’
‘It’s so crazy you can peacefully go to sleep at night and then wake up to the tragic news that your 19-year-old brother has died.’
“It felt like someone had taken a sledge hammer to my heart. Why in the world is my LITTLE brother, who’s only 19, laying in a casket?”
‘When am I going to get my baby brother? I just want my baby brother.’ After losing a baby at 11 weeks, mom is THRILLED to tell her son he’d finally get ‘his baby brother’
“His smallness took my breath away. That night, my in-laws brought Mikey to see me. We told him he finally had his baby brother. The first time Mikey saw him, he beamed. ‘He has red hair just like me!’ I feel honored to witness their love. It’s as if the two of them were destined to be each other’s brother.”
‘853 days. That’s how much time my son spent with his biological parents before they both tragically passed away. While legally my adopted son, he is biologically my brother.
“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.”
‘I knew my brother had died before I even picked up the phone’: Sister resented her mom’s grief for brother who overdosed until she had a son of her own
“My mom valued my brother’s death more than me, and I was still here.”
‘My little brother has a crush on this girl’: Big bro’s hilarious wingman story to help his sibling score a second date
“He is 16, and this was his first date and first time inviting a girl over.”
‘I miss them more than words can describe’: Marine’s 2-year-old brother steps in for PROM photos in his absence
“Even though Gage is 1,000 miles away, I still had a great prom! It meant so much to me to have Gage be a part of my night, even though he couldn’t actually be here with me.”
