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 ...
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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 ...
Broken Is Better
This past week I got invited to go back and visit the recovery group I was a part of for about a year and a half after Cameron's confession. It was so good to be with these special women, and during our meeting we made Kintsugi together. Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese art that uses a precious metal like gold to bring together the pieces of a broken pottery item and at the same time enhance the breaks. This technique essentially makes the piece more unique and adds more value to it. If you ...
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 ...
I Feel Like A Bad Christian If I Take Anxiety Medicine
I had a friend say this to me recently. It broke my heart. I know talking about mental health is such a thing right now, but I'm discovering how broken our system is when it comes to this, especially in the Christian community. This is exactly why our language matters. When we say things like, "God is bigger than your depression", or "trusting God more will take away your anxiety", or "this is just a spiritual warfare issue", what we're actually doing is communicating that if this ...
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 ...
From Our Heart To Yours – A Follow-Up Video To Our Blog Series
We wanted to follow up on a few things since sharing our blog series with you! We have already shared so much in our four posts, but there were a few things we wanted to say that can really only be said on video. So here you go....from our heart to yours. ...
Part Two – My Life As A Sex Addict
By: Cameron Sprinkle The morning after my confession to Karissa I woke up and couldn’t figure out where I was. Then I remembered that I was sleeping in a friend’s guest bed, and it hit me: what had happened the day before wasn’t a nightmare—it was reality. The emotion was similar to the moment when you wake up the morning after having a death in the family and realizing that yes, that person really is gone. That really happened. I had just devastated my wife and everyone I care ...
Part One – The Day I Took Off My Wedding Ring
Seven years of marriage. We had just celebrated our anniversary in August of 2016 feeling victorious. Close. And so hopeful for the future. Then in October we welcomed our first child after over three years of a tough battle with infertility; when she arrived in all of her glory, it was one of the most incredible moments of my life. We were thrilled to be parents to this perfect little girl, and I was so excited to finally have the family I’d fought so hard for. But as our little baby grew ...
New Blog Series Coming Soon!
We wanted to share just a few quick thoughts on our mini blog series coming up in just TWO days! We would love for you to share this video with any friend who you think needs to be a part of this community of hope and healing. Whether you’re married, single, a parent, infertile, 18, or 85….God has something for you here. We truly believe this is the most important work we've ever done. Thank you so much for joining us on this journey! Love, Cameron & Karissa ...
