Mother’s Day is here again, and it's feeling a bit more heavy this year than it has the last several years. My emotions have been a little bit all over the place this year. And to pile it on, while organizing this week I also recently discovered a box I had forgotten about: my IVF box. It's a box I haven’t opened since I got pregnant. It’s a box I haven’t thrown away either. Even though it had two sharps containers filled to the brim with used needles and plenty of other ...
Infertility
Fertility Update: Still Waiting
Just to be clear for all the skim readers: we are *NOT* pregnant. While we are right in the middle of National Infertility Awareness Week, I thought it might be time to give a little fertility update. Since we posted over a year ago in January about meeting with our fertility doctor to try for baby #2, we've had questions here and there about what we've been doing! So here's a little rundown for you. To clarify, we have actually not pursued IVF again since we had Scarlett. We did a few other ...
Five Things I Want To Share With The Woman Who Just Became A Mother After Infertility
First things first, let me say - CONGRATS!!! You made it to motherhood. This day has finally arrived, so let’s just take a minute. This is a BIG DEAL. The day you weren’t sure would come. Now you’re finally rocking the maternity pants you were once jealous everyone else got to wear. Or you’re holding your miracle baby in your arms. The long-awaited adoption finally went through. It’s truly a surreal moment, isn’t it? I’m so stinking happy for you. I know the feeling and there’s not many in life ...
Our Seven Day Miracle
This transition into November always brings back bittersweet memories for me. It was during this exact week four years ago that I was pregnant with our first baby who we affectionately named Sprink. I remember some of these moments as if they were yesterday. I remember the sting of death that seemed to fill every room in our home. Shortly after our miscarriage, I decided to write a letter to our little babe about the brief time we had together. As Infant Loss ...
Selling Our Home – The End Of A Bittersweet Chapter
A few days ago, it finally happened. We finally closed on our house! It’s been a process that has lasted since March and been really hard on us, but after finding our second buyer, things went a bit more smoothly this time around. On Wednesday evening, we finally signed all the papers and handed over the keys. It was truly bittersweet. The idea of selling our house has actually been a topic we’ve come to every few months for the last several years. We knew it would happen eventually. But ...
Celebrating You – The Childless Woman On Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and while it’s such a beautiful thing to celebrate the mothers in our lives, I know this day will be very painful for many of you. It used to be one of the hardest days of the year for me. I just want to first start by saying that I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry another Mother’s Day is coming and your arms still feel emptier than ever before. This pain is real and it’s deep, and my heart aches with yours. You may end up doing what I used to do on this ...
The Way Out Is Through
::: Excited squeal! ::: Welcome to my first blog post!!!! Seriously, I’m so humbled that you’re here. It’s a scary and vulnerable thing to put yourself out there the way I feel like God has asked me to do. But to feel this supported by all of you going into it? Man, my heart is so encouraged by each of you. And please know that I take your time very seriously, and I won’t write about anything lightly, flippantly, or without some caution as to how it will be received. So let me get right ...
