An Upsetting Conversation “I was stirring a cup of tea as we sat around the kitchen table at the end of a family dinner that
“My entire health journey has been quite private over the past 6 and a half, nearly 7, years. I have cried in private, I have
“I had been praying for a baby for over ten years. Ten. I married a man who had a vasectomy and then we paid an
“My husband, Scott, and I met in college in 2010. We were married in March 2016. We had gotten engaged the summer before and were
“I was never the kind of girl who envisioned ‘my perfect family.’ I grew up in a home where I felt loved and cared for;
“Tommy and I have been married for five years. We have always wanted to be parents.After trying for quite some time, our first pregnancy ended
Becoming A Foster Parent “When I was called to foster, I thought for sure God had messed up. Me? No. Surely not. He must have
“To the woman on Delta flight 1227 on March 3rd, 2016, from Minneapolis to Detroit: You knew I needed you when I was too afraid
“My story… Our story… I’ve told it in bits and pieces, wrote parts in a hundred scattered places, and lived it a thousand times over.
“When I was 36 years old, my husband died of blood cancer. At the time he was diagnosed almost a year earlier, we had a