My Children Will Be Light and Thunder My children will be wild— not reckless, but true. They will be fire-fed and water-wise, with roots deep in the earth and eyes full of stars. They...
Motherhood
Embers Of Bravery: From Darkness To Light
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood sexual abuse. It often begins subtly, almost sweetly—the extra attention feels like a...
What is More Difficult: Losing a Mother or Becoming a...
What is More Difficult: Losing a Mother or Becoming a Mother? Is that a stupid question? Losing a 63 year old mother to pancreatic cancer was extremely difficult, especially when your...
M’s life stories
Where to begin… well, I would like to keep my name private for the time being… so I’ll just call myself M. I grew up on a rather low-income side of south Texas. born in...
The Wander Lady with her Wander Baby!
Well “9 locations – 5 flights – about 20 days travel with my little 5 months old baby” so that I could be the WANDER WOMAN I wanted to be! When all a new mom feels is...
I am the tree
My story is about my life and my 2 sons given up for adoption and taken to another country and made slaves and recently found as adults. I was a young mother fighting the system.One son has...
Never Stop searching for your purpose.
Hi My name is Chris but my friends call me Chrissie. This is my story…. I am one of 5 children 2 sisters, 2 brothers, I am the middle child. Growing up I was a teen mom that broke...
Houston and the NICU
My name is Ashley Hall. I am the founder of Houston’s Lift Off. This is Houston’s story. Houston was born at 25 weeks. He was born August 14th, 2015. He weighted 1 pound 3 ounces when...
Losing You
In 2020, I became pregnant with twin boys! My husband, 10 year old son, and I were so excited to complete our family. We had to get two of everything, but we were so ready to add these two...
Don’t be a Jerk!
The day I got pregnant with my daughters and son was the best day of my life! So at least I thought because that same day I went to my boyfriend’s house and told him he was going to...