"As I rocked our baby down for a nap I heard my phone vibrate as a text rolled in. It occurred to me then as I saw my spouse’s number pop up on my phone that I had not texted him earlier as I intended."
"My hands and feet got hot and sweaty. He described what he saw with just enough detail for me to get the point. I was in shock. I could see things but they were blurry, I could hear, but it was unclear, muffled."
"It may seem that we have left all our caring, our heart, and our love at work, then have come home to you empty. We probably have. But we don't tell you that many times at work that we are mired by anxiety, we are scared."
"One day, while walking through Walmart, we noticed his body becoming swollen and infected. I didn’t think anything of it...I want to spread awareness."
"I got in the front and he put our baby in her seat. I have no memory of the rest of the night. Jake died that night. I lost my husband, and I became a widow at 18."
Robbie is sadly aware the longer a child remains in foster care the less likely they are to be adopted. He told me once "if all you guys had wanted was a baby, you would have never gotten me."
