Most nights I would go from room to room, but I did feel that there was always something that could use some emotional support. You know, “I’m here. I’m here and you can count on me.” I launched morethan on August 29, my mother’s birthday. And since that day, I’ve known that this interview was […]
Tag: motherhood
She is such an intentional teacher of children. When there’s a child in her house, there’s nothing casual about that. Judy is kind of the matriarch of all matriarchs as far as I’m concerned. She has 9 children, (resulting in her current 45 grandchildren) and she ran a tight ship. They are all grown, married, […]
With seven kids, “new normal” is kind of how we’ve done it. Every kid, or every stage that we enter in, we have to find our new normal. Mom of seven, creator of the Helping of Happiness blog and podcast, Hillary lives her life busy. She’s also one of those rare people who can put […]
She says, “I see heartbeats.” And I go, “Sweet! Twins!” And she’s like, “I see five.” Katie and I have been friends for ten years, but it has been nearly that long since I’ve seen her. She reached out to me when I started this website, willing to share her story, because she said the […]
I used to think anybody could do it. I feel like it kind of ate me alive. I would do it all over again to have the triplets, but it was really difficult. Most emotional thing that I’ve ever experienced. My Grandma recommended Cheryl to me, knowing that she had fostered and then adopted triplet […]
But it was always in the back of my head. I might have to watch him die. And I might have to watch my kids lose their dad. And that’s gonna be really hard, and I don’t want to do it! This episode is a continuation of last week’s story, which you can watch here. […]
When people help me, and I allow them to help me, those are my strongest friendships. I consider those friends my family to this day, because they were the ones that came in and helped me with so many things. And you get so close to them because they’re the ones taking care of you. […]