I Promised My Son Forever—Then Cancer Made Me Count the Months

baby. Forever.

I could make that promise the way I made the wedding promise.

But something in me—something exhausted and honest—rebels.

I don’t want to be the mother who turns love into a series of beautiful lies.

I also don’t want to be the mother who crushes her child with the truth.

So I do what I’ve been doing for months.

I thread the needle with shaking continue reading …