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My mom said: ‘Val has something to say to you.’ I was sitting on the stairwell, crying. And he knew right away that I was pregnant. He didn’t yell. He didn’t say anything. He just started pacing. But I knew what he was thinking: I was eighteen years old, I was his only daughter, and
Have you ever waited three decades for something to happen and live to see it materialize? I’m sure only a few lucky people would say they have, including this couple from Michigan. Kateri Schwandt and Jay Schwandt, both 45, have a growing household. They have 14 sons, and they recently welcomed another bundle of joy
It’s tough being a single parent, and it’s even harder now that we’re in the middle of a pandemic. MaryAnn Resendez, 41, knows this all too well. She’s a single parent to a five-year-old daughter, and she can’t leave her alone at home while she runs errands. While it’s what any good mother would do,
Grey’s Anatomy star Caterina Scorsone commemorated World Down Syndrome Day in the cutest way – by doing ABCs with her toddler! On Saturday, the 38-year-old television star shared an Instagram video of herself and her 3-year-old daughter, Paloma “Pippa” Michaela, who lives with Down Syndrome. In the sweet footage, the mother and daughter duo are
Cancer patient Michele Schambach, 65, had arrived at the Cleveland Clinic in northern Ohio from Guatemala to find a more advance treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer. Living with a serious illness is always difficult, as the patient has to contend with numerous tests, procedures, and oftentimes painful treatments. In some cases, patients
Haley Hassell of Pensacola had a daughter named Presleigh who was about to start first grade. Like many kids her age, 6-year-old Presleigh was a fan of the L.O.L Surprise! dolls and had been wishing for a pencil case with them on it. Haley wanted to surprise her daughter with it before school starts, and
A high school senior paid tribute to her father who died during a military tour in Afghanistan through pictures that depict him as an “angel”. Julia Yllescas, who attends Aurora High School, wanted to honor her father’s memory by including him in her senior pictures. Her dad, Captain Robert Yllescas, died on December 1, 2008, after
In emergency situations, every passing second is critical. This is what went through Darius Hinkle’s mind while he was rushing his daughter to the hospital. The dad drove as fast as he can because his little girl was choking on a penny, and he knew it was only a matter of time before the situation
This story about a father and his adopted daughter demonstrates that fate has its own way of bringing wonderful surprises into our lives. North Carolina resident Billy Houze, 64, is a father of five and an esteemed pastor at First Baptist Church of Lawndale. Everything in his life was going smoothly until 2016, when his
Today as soon as I picked my five year old up from kindergarten, I could tell she was in, what I like to call, one of her “moods”. She was crying over everything, not being herself, and acting so uptight. My immediate reaction was to get annoyed. And say “you’re almost six, why are you
Dear sweet Hannah Grace, My beautiful daughter, my life changer, my literal gift from God. I want you to know some things about yourself that others may not know. I want to tell you how you’ve impacted not only mine, but so many lives around this whole big world. I want to tell you about
When we think of blended families, we tend to imagine a set of people who feel bitter and harbor feelings of resentment towards each other. Or at least – that’s what the mainstream media and modern society would like us to think. But such is not the case for a blended family from Texas. In