Then I heard a voice–maybe my own–say “what kind of person do you want to be? Do you want to be the person that can deal with this? Or do you want to be the person who [can’t]?” I decided I wanted to be the person who could.

How would I describe myself before having children? I was really pretty laid back, and I didn’t worry about much. I always felt like things would work out. My husband and I always knew we would have a family. We ended up having four children. Our oldest is 18, Alex would have been 17 this […]