Teaching NFP as a subfertile couple

31Dec10

Believe it or not, one of the first things I thought of when we didn’t get pregnant right away was Oh great, now no one we know is going to believe that NFP works. And I don’t think that was a crazy thought.  I’ve been in the NFP world long enough to know that when [...]

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Advent Reveal

27Dec10

This advent I had the pleasure of praying for the sweet and thoughtful writer of a blog I’ve read for a while now and have often cited here on my own blog, which made this season feel that much more personal.  When I received the email I admit I was a bit nervous, knowing what [...]

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Who are the lucky ones?

21Dec10

Have you all followed Arwen’s writings?  She writes at Faith and Family Live as well as on her own blog, which ironically, was started as a place where she would write to work through her thoughts on infertility.  While her recent posts are filled with talk of children and struggles of motherhood, her archives are [...]

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Giving Gratitude 12.20.10

20Dec10

Been a while since I’ve done this…so I’m back to it, starting with Hot water. That it exists somewhere, although that somewhere isn’t here.  Cold/luke-warm showers are great for waking you up, but they are tortuous to endure.  I can’t wait until we can have hot water showers while we visit family for Christmas.  It [...]

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An exchange of hope

15Dec10

I saw this picture today and thought, wow, I have a good looking husband did I really go to India? Traveling is not something I take for granted and is something that I hoped and hoped for for so long.   I get giddy like a schoolgirl as soon as I plan a trip and quite [...]

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Not meant to be? Discerning parenthood

13Dec10

“I think clearly God is telling you guys you’re not meant to be parents right now.” I was catching up with a friend the other day and this was what she came up with after I had filled her in with the going-ons of our life these days.  All I could think of in response [...]

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On goaltending

07Dec10

Thank you for your kind comments.  A long Saturday morning Skype conversation with the hubs averted the derailment of the sanity train – at least this time!  [Note to self that not exercising for 3 weeks may also not be good for my mental health.] In case it ever appears that I have it all [...]

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That dark place

03Dec10

Its coming to get me again.  I’ve been living in a beautiful world of I’m-not-pregnant-not-because-I-can’t-have-kids-but-because-I-can’t-see-my-husband and those negative thoughts that seemed to be a little too common in these preceding thoughts had almost all but disappeared.  Hope and normalcy had replaced them. But I’m starting to feel them coming back.  Even though I’m still living [...]

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Mastermind Moonhead

01Dec10

I took that Keirsey temperament test that JBTC has going on over there and found out that I’m a Mastermind! AKA an INTJ (Introvert, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging).  I always wanted a nickname and they never seem to stick so, maybe this one will? Actually, I admit it all I keep thinking about is that game [...]

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