Maybe you're having one of those days where it feels like everything is going wrong. The obstacles in life seem insurmountable. The odds are clearly not stacked in your favor, and you're beginning to doubt they ever will be.

If you are indeed having one of those days -- or weeks, or months -- this is the story for you.

Leighann Marquiss was in the first trimester of her pregnancy with son Ryan when she and her husband Henry were told their unborn baby had a combination of heart defects, which made his chances of survival extremely slim: Ectopia cordis, which causes half of the heart to be formed outside of the body, and hypoplastic right heart syndrome, a condition which causes only the left side of the heart to develop normally. Only 5 to 8 infants out of every million born with ectopia cordis survive. The fact that this baby had another major heart defect only made his chances worse.

Still, Leighann and Henry refused to terminate the pregnancy.

We all say things we regret later, and obviously Brady Quinn is having second thoughts regarding the less-than-flattering comments he made about Tim Tebow during an interview for GQ. Well, sure -- remarks that seem casual and non-threatening in the context of a conversation carry a lot more weight when they're printed in black and white ("The Year of Magical Stinking: An Oral History of Tebow Time" just hit newsstands on Tuesday). But did Quinn really need to apologize for his words? I don't think so.

Granted, I can see how things could get a little awkward if Quinn didn't try to take back what he said, considering he and Tebow are teammates on the Denver Broncos. 

But it's not like Quinn slammed Tebow for the sake of slamming him. He didn't even slam him, really. Quinn basically just said what everybody else was thinking out loud.

Seems like every other day we hear the results of some new study about teens and drinking. They're drinking more! They're drinking less! They're drinking at home! They're drinking at school! They're drinking top shelf vodka! They're pounding shots of mouthwash!

As a mom, at a certain point I kind of started tuning it all out, for sanity's sake. How are we supposed to sift through all these contradictions to find the truth? But the latest research definitely got my attention: Apparently exposure to alcohol consumption in movies is a bigger risk for teen drinking than having parents who drink regularly or having an easily accessible liquor cabinet at home.

Seriously?! How can this possibly be?