Continuous disbelief

27Aug11

Thank you so, so much for all of your comments.  Your support for us on this journey has been astounding and although I know for many of you that announcement may have come with its own set of other reactions, I appreciate your kind words and thoughts in spite of that.  Your prayers mean to [...]

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I pushed play, He pushed fast forward

24Aug11

I had planned on writing about how my first days of school work went this week (its going well, in case you’re interested) or maybe publishing one of the half posts that I had started this summer and never finished, but then something else happened. Starting with the number 18. Peak + 18. I’ve gotten [...]

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Another day, another perspective

19Aug11

I bought flowers for myself for the first time after the other day. Can you see the pink water?  I think regular sunflowers would have been a little more cheery (these look a little bloody/Halloween-ish…) but at least I get bonus pink water to look at as well. And I’ve cried more this week than [...]

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Such is life

16Aug11

I feel like a broken record. One day everything is going seemingly OK and then… One day I’m completely content with the fact that I’m going back to work next week instead of having the opportunity to be a mom and then… One day I’m committed to making this our last month of “treatment” because [...]

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A (not so) encouraging story

10Aug11

The third clinic was the charm today. That’s one thing that stinks about moving to a new area and trying to explain to each receptionist that you need your blood drawn for hormone testing, but that your doctor is out of state so you’ll actually just need that blood back now thank you.  I’m just [...]

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Shocking

09Aug11

I just got off the phone with the Family Life Coordinator of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest diocese in the United States, which serves almost 5 million Catholics. That’s like, an insane number. And do you know how many Catholic infertility support groups she knows of? None.  Not a single one. There are [...]

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How to tell its time to move

08Aug11

How do you know when its time for you to move? Everyone in your local sub/infertility group is either pregnant or has adopted. Yup, it was time for us to get a move on. I say that (partially) in jest because of course, we didn’t actually decide to move because all of our infertile and [...]

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