"You heard me tell her we had a long drive home and she needed to use the potty. You heard her tell me she was scared the toilet would flush while she was sitting on it."
"He stepped aside and tried to make a few calls. Hugging his daughter and grabbing his head, you could tell he was heartbroken. This woman next to him at the front counter heard the whole thing."
“This is the story of a little girl’s love of a green dress, a mother who tries to instill independence, and how those two things came together in the most epic and brilliant combination possible."
"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
"At most high schools, members of the football team are lauded and applauded and respected and admired, which is great for them. But at some of those same schools, members of the marching band, especially, are made fun of."
"My daughter would question me as to why I wasn’t wearing a two-piece bathing suit. I would tell her 'Mommy just doesn’t feel comfortable in it,' and when she would push for me to explain what I meant I would just deflect the conversation and bring up a new topic."
Everyone refers to you as a mama's boy, as if it's somehow a negative thing. They laugh and joke, and make comments here and there about how soft I am making you.
"I don’t want you to think I am crazy. I just HAD to take this in for a moment. I even called my wife.’ Puzzled, I asked him, ‘What’s wrong?’ When he had turned over the cards, he saw the names of my babies... I looked at him with complete shock and utter disbelief."
"The happiest moment of my life turned to the darkest... It was as if a tornado hit that room and I was in the eye of it as her life was torn apart around me. I had done this. It was my fault."
"That blue stain was just a big fat negative in my life. I hated it. The next month, we got devastating news about my sweet son, the one who splattered it all over our carpet."
