Posts Tagged ‘infertility’

Motherhood Is Not The Cure

One of the things that surprised me after becoming a mother was that I thought that all of the pain and longing that I experienced during our wait and during our struggle with infertility would vanish...

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Onesies and Promises

Two years ago, when we were still trying to get pregnant, I had to run into a Walgreen’s on my lunch break to buy a box of ovulation predictor kits. (Which can we talk about how criminally expen...

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Where My Hope Lives

“I’m not sure how men and women without a strong view of God’s sovereignty and authority over all things handle things like this.” – Pastor Matt Chandler Oh, I cried. There have been...

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Taste & See

When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel...

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This is Today

I am feeling sad tonight for no real reason. Well, that’s not entirely true. I guess there are reasons. For one, my cousin Colleen is in labor right now with her first child, in Ohio, a long way...

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Thank You

Thank you so much for the well wishes! To say that we are excited would be a huge understatement. We are scared and nervous and apprehensive and I keep making Aaron promise me that he was never arrest...

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Bear with me, because I’m not sure where we’re going to go this morning. As I sit here, Montego’s head is resting on my foot, Shane & Shane’s Psalms album is playing on iTu...

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The Balance Between Saying Too Much and Not Enough

So I’ve thought and thought and debated and debated and prayed and prayed about writing this entry. About being this honest. But I keep coming back to the idea: why should our journey to become ...

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Plan B — Chapters 3 & 4

Chapter 3 — The Illusion of Control Oh, we love to pretend we’re in control, don’t we? We assume if we work hard enough and pray long enough, eventually we’ll be able to manipu...

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To Life

It’s been exactly one year since what happened, happened. Today was a normal day, like many Saturdays around here. I had a session this morning (peek here), so we cleaned a bit beforehand. We wa...

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