This will be the first Mother’s Day in a long time when I haven’t felt out of place, embarrassed, humiliated, broken, and like a complete failure. Especially at church. Mother’s Day is so glorified and emphasized at church that the place where I usually receive comfort and peace weekly becomes the place where one day…
I’ve been blogging about our infertility experiences for almost two years now, but somehow I have never written up the details of our infertility story with the treatments we have tried, causes of infertility we’ve ruled out, etc. I’ve blogged about the emotional side of infertility quite a bit but not so much the medical…
After three years of disappointment, tears, heartbreak, pain, unanswered questions, and failed medical treatments, we were finally able to conceive through the modern miracle of in vitro fertilization! Baby is due to arrive in early August 2017, and we are so grateful for the skilled reproductive endocrinologists, IVF coordinators, embryologists and nurses who have made…
One year ago today, my grandpa’s spirit left his frail, cancer-ridden body for a higher realm. It’s still so strange to me that when I step into his house, he won’t come walking around the corner, with a story to tell or a project to show me. Or that when I walk around to the…
Bekah is a senior in high school with big goals! She wants to become a zoo veterinarian one day, and she’s not afraid of the years of competitive schooling and hard work it’ll take to get there! Bekah is already working hard at a pet store while she stays on top of her high school…
Years ago I read a short but moving essay, “Welcome to Holland,” by Emily Perl Kingsley (you can read it here). The author describes what it’s like to raise a child with special needs by comparing the experience to planning a trip to Italy but finding out that your plane has landed in Holland. “Holland?!?” you say. “What…
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