Four and a half years ago, Jill stood on the sidewalk and watched as another family drove away with the little boy she had given birth to days before. While pregnant, she had been unemployed, depressed, and certain she could not care for a child the way he deserved to be cared for. But the […]
When Kristy went into labor at 33 weeks gestation and had her baby via emergency c-section, it seemed like a series of small miracles took place. She and the baby would have the healthiest outcome in a scary, unpredictable situation. End of story. But week after week, as Kristy and her family learned more about […]
by Allison Crockett Anna Karenina. Words synonymous with Russian winters, trains, adultery, lavish dresses and furs, princes and princesses. Or perhaps the mind jumps quickly to Tolstoy and his ability to take a few simple themes and turn them into 800+ page novels. Whatever your initial thoughts are, they probably did not involve the shaping […]
I knew that it wouldn’t do me any good to say, well, I’m going to have a baby and then I’ll figure out my life because I’d already made pretty much made a solid decision that I was going to place him for adoption and I didn’t want to put my life on hold any longer.
