I love Facebook. It is no secret. Recently, I wondered “Can Facebook help me get pregnant?” No, no, I’m not talking about finding sperm donors or black market fertility drugs. I wondered if I could use my local resources to help garnish the items needed to track my fertility and hopefully see that positive sign … Read more
My husband and I have this joke about putting me in “The Bubble”. You see when we were trying to conceive we really were ready to do ANYTHING to have a baby. So I gave up alcohol, caffeine, sugar, exercise, sushi, etc. for months at a time. There was a time where my husband wouldn’t … Read more
This fire drill happened a few months back. But it was definitely a fire drill for our family. Wait, what is that? Why is that happening now? I am seven days early in my cycle. OMG, is that implantation bleeding? No, it can’t be! The timing is not right. Where is my tracker……Sex on this … Read more
We are…..comfortable. Our little family of four…well five if you include the dog. I love sitting on the couch, Papi, son, Mami, daughter, dog. All snuggled up. I love that even though my daughter still wakes up at night, we snuggle and we can all goes right back to sleep without much disturbance. Everyone eats … Read more
This is a continuation of my journey through the thoughts, feelings and experiences contemplating adding a third child to our family. My initial post provides a glimpse into the reality and the joke of this question for our family. If I have a third baby….we will have 40 years between us. I feel pretty awesome … Read more
“So are you going to have another baby?” This seems to be the question that people ask right after you have a child. This question can bring up lots of emotions if you struggled to have the child you are holding in your arms. Having dealt with infertility and losses, adoption and having a rainbow … Read more
I loved sharing the first part of our adoption story. Reading the words and feeling the emotions again have been the highlight of this month, National Adoption Month. I am also very grateful to be featured on Dallas Mom’s Blog and discussing Love for a Child: Overcoming the Fear of Adoption. Here is the second part … Read more
In honor of National Adoption Month I was contacted by Dallas Moms Blog to write a blog about adoption. This was such an honor as a new blog write and something I am passionate about. I loved sharing the first part of our adoption story yesterday and will share the rest tomorrow. The topic of … Read more
Our adoption story starts years before we heard about or brought our son home. It started because I always felt like I wanted to adopt. So when my husband and I were dating and discussing the future, I made sure that our future included adoption….and our future did include adoption, just not the way I … Read more
This is a repost, you can find the original post here. I have referenced before how I had wonderful dreams of surprising my husband with some sort of cute way to say “I’m pregnant” but instead came back from a doctor’s appointment saying the words “I’m pregnant” followed by “They can’t find a heartbeat”. This has been … Read more