“I just wanted to put out a positive post in all the chaos. My family and I have to live check by check. I can’t
“December 17, 2011, was like any other Saturday. I got up around 8 a.m. to get my 11-year-old daughter Jade ready to spend the day
“Our life was everything I had always wanted it to be when I realized there could be more. We could stay in our comfort zone
“Love is what matters? You’re absolutely right. What is love? It’s an action word, it requires more than just saying it. It’s a hug, nursing
“September 1, 2018, I was so excited to marry the man I couldn’t spend a day without! We’d gone days, months, years without being together
“We all have chapters in our story that we’d rather not talk about. They’re the parts of our story we would rather push deep down
“Our journey to have a family has been a very difficult one to say the least. It was filled with heartbreak, anxiety, fear, and guilt.
“January 18, 2015, was just your typical freezing cold pacific northwest morning. It was the day of my first ultrasound for my third pregnancy. I
“I don’t know why I woke up that night. I looked over at her, sleeping, hair spread out across her pillow. Peaceful. Beautiful. My wife.
“Dear Adoptive Mom, Deflecting questions, preserving bad memories, and telling me my mother didn’t want me, does not make me love you more for ‘saving