It was really painful. With a stroke of a pen, someone in an office somewhere wrote me out of my son's life.

It was really painful. I just felt so vulnerable that someone could, with the stroke of a pen, cut me off from my child that way.

It was really painful. I felt so vulnerable that with the stroke of a pen, someone could change the legal status of our family.

We wrapped 467 age-appropriate paperback books for the kids.

These kids are very impressionable. Knowing that, we have to be very conscientious of how we act.

The goal is to expose third-graders to Valley, to show them how cool it is and make them want to work to get here. We started working on this event in October and it went really well.