Nothing Happening Here…Tweedle Deedle Dee ;)

Oh, wait, were some of you waiting for an update of some sort? Like, I don’t know, something about an ultrasound?
Yep, that’s right. The big twenty-week ultrasound was this morning. I always laugh when the techs ask me if I want to know the gender if they can see it. Only once have I said [...]

Seventeen Weeks

While I’m posting this a few days late, the picture in this update really was taken at seventeen weeks (or, at least, what I think is the seventeen week mark). Between the raging crud my kids and I have been sharing, and the massive computer issues that I will discuss in a different post, this [...]

Mother’s Days

My first Mother’s Day as a married woman was memorable. And not in a warm and fuzzy sort of way. I had been trying to get pregnant for about eight months. About a month or so earlier, we had gone through preliminary fertility testing and had been told that our chances of conceiving a child [...]

Five Years Ago Today

Five years ago today, I woke up, showered, got ready and went to work like any other day.
But it wasn’t.
Five years ago today, I sat at my desk and stared at my computer screen, unable to focus my mind and work. I thought about the young woman I had met just a few days earlier. [...]

Protected: I Dreamed a Dream

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My Body Amazes Me

…And not always in a good sort of way
The last you heard from me, I was heading to the hospital in the middle of the night with contractions that were already getting down around 2-3 minutes apart.
I was feeling pretty good about things.
We got to the hospital and I was taken to the triage [...]

The Second Pregnancy

As I never did finish my “Journey to Motherhood” series, and I want to keep all of my children in order, I am now going to share with you the story behind my third son, C~. To read everything up to this point, click here.
After W’s birth, we were curious if something had changed with [...]

The First Pregnancy

This is the fifth entry in a series describing my journey to motherhood. Click here to read everything leading up to this.
I think that life as a first-time parent is an adjustment for anyone. It was no different for N~ and I (oh, and Sean, too). But we found our groove. As my maternity leave [...]

Our Adoption Story (Part 2)

Read Part 1 here.
We received the call that T~ had chosen us on a Tuesday. Two days later, we were in a car with our agency’s director, making the 3-hour drive to T’s aunt’s house so that we could meet her and the family. I remember seeing all of the redbud trees lining the highway–I had [...]

Our Adoption Story (Part 1)

I keep wanting to move on with my background story, to write about N’s adoption. And I keep finding other things to write about instead. Maybe it is because I’m having a hard time trying to imagine how I will put such a long story into such a brief narrative. Or maybe it is because [...]