She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... - Nicholas Sparks

The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.

No, there's no experience quite like having children, and despite the challenges we once faced, I've considered myself blessed because of the family we created.

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.