Trigger Warning: this is a sensitive post about embryo loss. If you're going through infertility, IVF or waiting for embryo results, I want you to know that this blog post may be triggering for you. Guard your hearts. So many of you have prayed for a miracle along with us. I wish I had better news to share after our February IVF cycle. I wish I could tell you that we finally got that miracle - that after almost three years of infertility, we could see the rainbow coming for us. But I can't … [Read more...]
2022: The Year of Continued Hope
Happy New Year! 🌟 Do you make resolutions for the year? I don't make resolutions, but I pick a word for the year. This is something I've done since college and it's a way to define the year ahead for me. This year, my word is a little different. 2022: the year of continued hope is the way I like to look at it. In the past, I've shared my word for the year with you: check out my word of the year for 2018, 2019 and 2020. I never did share a blog post about my word of the year in 2021, but … [Read more...]
Infertility at Christmas
It's two days before Christmas and I'm feeling... really emotional. Infertility at Christmas, well that's a feeling that's hard to explain. You can have joy and be sad at the time. You can feel happy but your heart is breaking at the same time. Because grief is not linear. Grief comes in waves and you can't control when it'll come. It comes out of nowhere -- suddenly you're watching Hallmark Christmas movies and for some reason you find yourself in tears. This is where I find myself … [Read more...]
An Update on Our Infertility Journey
Hello, sweet friends! Today I want to share a little update with you on our infertility process and a little good news during the wait for baby. It's another blog hop day with Jackie, Liz, Shanna and Jessica! The theme this month is "what I accomplished in May." It's kind of a wild card month to share any kind of diy or big projects we've been working on. Please follow the links in gold to see what they've been up to and get inspired for lots of fun diys! Me? Well, I got nothin'! To … [Read more...]
Hope in the Wait: Our Infertility Journey
Infertility. Is real and it's raw. It's emotionally hard, it's exhausting with the range of emotions you may feel and it's financially expensive. For most, insurance doesn't cover the treatments, making an already hard and emotional journey seem even further out of reach. Infertility isn't a topic talked about much. In fact, I really didn't know much about infertility until life threw us this curve ball. Now, I'm educating myself on the topic and preparing the best I can as we start the … [Read more...]