The phone rang at 11:23 A.M. today. I already knew who it was. It was THE call I had fantasized about for the last three months. THE call determining the life I would now have. The size of my family...
In the days leading up to Baby Girl’s first birthday, I found myself overwhelmingly emotional. Yes, I was exhausted from working full-time, chasing after a baby who was turning into a toddler, and being 20 weeks pregnant. But this...
October is known for being Breast Cancer Awareness month, but do you know that it's also National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month? In 1988, then-President Ronald Reagan declared October a month to honor those who have lost children:
When a...
Becoming a mom wasn’t easy for me. If you’ve been reading our lovely blog for very long, you may recall some of my stories about our struggles with infertility. As ACMB pays tribute to the multi-faceted beauty of motherhood, I’ve...
Any other Friends fanatics out there?
Remember those episodes in seasons eight and nine of Friends where Monica and Chandler are trying to have a baby? They see Ross & Rachel’s beautiful little Emma and decide they are ready one...
A few weeks ago I shared part of our story about some of the challenges along my journey to motherhood. If you are in a battle with infertility, you are not alone! Making that first step to begin fertility treatments...
As I’ve been sharing our story about our struggles with infertility, I’ve been constantly reminded of the many people who helped us along this journey. If someone you love is hurting because she is a mother without a baby,...
Becoming a mom doesn’t happen the same way for everyone. For some it’s an accidental blessing. Others make a plan that just works. Still others plan and hope and dream and pray….and wait…and wait…and wait.
The calendar tells us this...
Trigger warning: this post will talk about pregnancy loss and pregnancy after loss. If you’re not in a place to read this right now, I send you so much love and encourage you to save it for a time...
Grief. I know it well. We are old friends, Grief and I. We first got acquainted in 2015: the year we lost my sweet cousin Taylor and my sister-in-law Rita within a month of each other. Grief introduced itself...
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