I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.