I’d like to preface this post by saying that I’m not a super sensitive person. I’m not easily offended, and I’m usually pretty good at looking at a situation from the other person’s point of view to understand where they are coming from. After initially writing this post, I actually read a blog post by …
Baby Journey: Why Adoption Is Not Always the Answer
When you open up about something that people have no experience in or don’t understand… you undoubtedly are going to get questions. A lot of questions. There is one question that seems to be incredibly common when you are struggling with infertility. Before we changed directions in our path towards parenthood… I was asked this …
Baby Journey: An Important Truth
You know, it didn’t dawn on me until I posted my Infertility and the Holidays blog post just before Christmas. But I’m realizing there is something I probably need to say… ~ I will always and forever support those struggling with infertility ~ I don’t know… maybe it doesn’t need to be said. But it …
Baby Journey Update: Getting the Basics
Since I last posted, we’ve hit some major milestones in our adoption journey. I’ve been sharing updates as they happen on a facebook page I created just for our adoption process. You can follow along if you like here: https://www.facebook.com/ryanandstephanieadopt/. But to sum up, we’ve met our caseworker and completed our homestudy. To do this …
Baby Journey: Infertility and Holidays
It’s Christmastime… which is my absolute favorite holiday, but to be completely honest – I’m just not feeling it this year. Maybe it’s because it doesn’t look or feel like Christmas outside. It’s really hard to get in the Christmas spirit when it’s a mild 50-60 degrees outside and not a hint of snow. Maybe …
Baby Journey Update: How We Told Our Parents…
I have been told… more than once… that I’m a very intentional person. And I’d never really thought about it, but that is true. If you were to walk into my home, you’ll see a painting I made that has two birds and a fiery sunset… to me it symbolizes the strength of our love …
Baby Journey Update: Adoption Fundraisers
I know many of you have been waiting for this… Our Adoption Fundraisers Announcement. I know it’s taken me a couple weeks… one of my girlfriends told me the other day I was either really brave or really crazy for undergoing all this work during the height of busy season – but it seems to …
Baby Journey Update: The Steps for Domestic Infant Adoption
When Ryan and I first started getting the inkling that God was calling us to the adopt, our gut reaction was to start researching. We will be the first in both our families to adopt children, so we had very little knowledge of the current adoption process or systems and what to expect. The first …
Baby Journey: Book Review: Barren Among the Fruitful
So with everything Ryan and I have been going through on this journey, I needed to connect. I needed something to ground me and help me feel more solid in where we are at. So being the giant nerd that I am – I looked to books. I wish I could say there’s a wealth …
Another Year…
Well I woke up today another year older… I’m not one who looks forward to or really dreads birthdays. I’ve never placed much stock in them. Partly because I hate being the center of attention… I’d much rather have a small casual get together with a few people than some big overwhelming hooha any day! …