Eight Months Pregnant and Suddenly Raising Seven Children Alone, Until One Quiet Family Decision Changed Everything at His Beachside Wedding

him as anything less than the boy I had loved since the day he was placed in my arms.

This is what I have come to believe about parenting. Love is not something handed to you in a moment. It is something you build, slowly, day after day, in a thousand small and quiet ways.

It is built in the way you sit on the floor with a child who is afraid of thunder.continue reading …