Mother's Day is a hard day for me. Mostly because I'm not yet recognized by society as a mother. I don't have a baby bump. I don't have kids in my house. I haven't even been matched with a referral. But a friend recently shared this quote with me and it resonated on a very deep level: "A mother's love is not measured by the number of children she has in her arms but by the love in her heart." While I wrote this post several months ago, I feel like it was in anticipation of this...
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Getting up
January 22, 2016
The last month has been really hard for us. Processing what
the news of infertility means for our family has not been an easy road to walk.
It doesn’t help that there is almost no one here near us that can understand.
But we are thankful for our family and friends in the States that have reached
out to us, prayed with and for us and carried us through this last month.
The only...
Monday, March 28, 2016
Pursuing
I wrote this on December 30, 2015:
For Christmas we decided to make an ornament that summed up
our year, whether with a picture or a word. We both came back with the same
word…pursuing.
2015 for us was a year of pursuing. We pursued where God
would have us work in this vast northern part of Senegal. When we first arrived in our new city, we felt
overwhelmed with the possibilities,...
Monday, March 7, 2016
The deepest thanks
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of emotions, from extreme joy to doubt and back to joy again. I've cried tears of fear and tears of happiness. I've been nothing but smiles and nothing but worry. Needless to say, I'm kinda tired!
First of all, we want to say thank you! Thank you for being so excited for us and our adoption. Thank you for making us feel so loved. Thank you for recognizing...
Saturday, March 5, 2016
What my morning sickness looks like
I wrote this in August 2015:
So it was a hard day and I was feeling blue. But my wonderful
mom reminded me that every parent has to go through the yuck to get their
kiddo. Most women have to go through morning sickness, swollen ankles, weird
craving, etc. My yuck just looks different. The more I thought about this, the
more comforted I was and my optimism slowly returned. Thanks Mom!
My morning sickness, tiredness and swollen ankles looks like
this:
1. Finding out that your...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
A bit of our story
I wrote this in July 2015 right before we had our home study:
All my life, I thought I never wanted to have kids biologically.
Something about the pain of childbirth, gaining weight when I already struggle
daily with that issue, and pain (did I already mention that?) caused me never
to really have that desire to birth a child. Don’t get me wrong.. I’ve always
always wanted kids. But I thought from an early age that my future family would
include only adopted kids.
Enter my hubby....
Monday, February 22, 2016
Our Big News!!!
I know many of you know already, but we wanted to announce it just like any other couple would announce a new member coming into their family!
It's taken far longer than we anticipated in getting to this point (kinda the story of our lives!!), but my dad always reminds me that this time of waiting is a time for growth, to become the parents we need to be, to grow us closer to Christ,...
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