Our baby was born without a brain, but her short life filled the world with love
When I bumped into Mark in May 2017, love was the furthest thing from my mind. I was a newly divorced mom of five, newly …
Rameeza Hassan
‘You’ll never be more than a glorified babysitter,’ she told me first
“You are not her mother. You’ll never be anything more than a glorified babysitter.” Those were the first words I ever got from my stepdaughter’s …
I was told it was morning sickness, but my body was shutting down completely
In the summer of 2020, I went to the doctor because I hadn’t been feeling well. I thought it was something simple, maybe the flu …
From Foster Care to Forever Family: How Love Found Its Way Home
When my husband and I fell in love, we knew early on that we wanted to be foster parents. Having biological children was never our …
From a Bumble Swipe to a Family: Love, Healing, and Unexpected Beginnings
Iena, my side of it I lost my parents, then moved to Chicago from Dubai. For three years there, I was just existing: partying, numbing …