Dear Santa, Do you remember me? I used to mail you letters to the North Pole each Christmas. My list was full of things like stuffed animals, baby dolls, books, and more. Well, it's been many, many years since I've written to you, but you see I still have a Christmas wish. This year my Christmas list [...]
My two week wait ended Saturday. Not with a positive pregnancy test, but with the unwelcome, dreaded Day 1. Two weeks exactly from my third IUI, I woke up knowing there wasn’t even a need to waste my time with a test. My body failed me, again. You see, infertility sucks. It leaves you with [...]
As I sit here today, the day before Thanksgiving, I’m watching my sweet hubs dig the ditch for what will be our water line. He’s outside working in the cold and I’m all snuggled up and warm in his truck with the fur baby, who is snoring rather loudly! Looking back over the past year, [...]
On the way to work this morning, I hydroplaned. We’ve all done it at some point, right? But, this morning when it happened my heart stopped. I didn’t see the standing water. It was dark, you know the kind of dark that comes with being on the road at 6:30 in the morning in the [...]
Waiting is not my favorite thing to do. Is it anybody’s favorite thing? We live in a fast paced society. Everything comes in an instant. Delivery food, Amazon purchases, want to rent a movie?, it’ll be downloaded to your TV in 30 seconds. Even my morning coffee comes out of my Keurig in less than [...]
Over five years ago, well closer to six years now, we were told if we wanted to have a baby we needed to get a move on. The sooner we had one, the better. We’d only been married three years and thought we had plenty of time. You know that idea? The one where you’re [...]
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