Announcing on Facebook!

Hi facebook friends! Welcome to my blog. :)

I realize now that we’ve posted on Facebook there might be other people coming and reading about what has been happening in our lives in the last few months.  Here’s the short-ish recap. :)  

Drew and I have tried for over 13 years to start our family.  We have tried naturally, we have taken herbs, acupuncture, eating healthy, special oils, special prayer, regular prayer, dr’s visits, fertility treatments etc. We’ve tried adoption, foster care and we finally decided to try Invitro Fertilization (IVF).  The tricky thing about IVF is you can’t really raise money like adoption, so we saved money for a long time and were finally able to afford the treatments in December of 2012.  Although December is a busy month for us (Drew’s b’day, our Anniversary, church stuff, as well as Christmas) we were so thankful to do our treatment in December.  I really wanted to “get it over with” and start 2013 with a clean slate.  I was at the point where I was content with where God had us and if that meant no kids, then I was fine with that.  Don’t think for a minute that this is the reason the treatment worked.  I do believe God works like that sometimes, but there were plenty of times over the 13 years that I felt like I “gave it to God” and we still didn’t get pregnant. I was so convinced that this treatment wasn’t going to work that I almost filled out adoption paperwork at the end of December, but my sister encouraged me to wait a bit longer.  

Imagine my surprise after 13 years of waiting when I saw 2 lines on the stick.  I was a one line person!!! But there we were, stunned, looking at 2 lines.  It was confirmed a few days later that yes, we were indeed pregnant. The story is posted on my blog starting in the late November postings. You can go back and read all the details from the shots to the retrieval to the transfer, the 2 week wait and finally the first test. It’s been a crazy journey, but a good one.  I encourage you to read about the process in my blog.  I had no idea what it was about until we were in it and I gotta tell ya, it was an amazing process. Even if it wouldn’t have worked, the process was amazing.  

God is so faithful.  Even through all of January I found it hard to believe that after 13 years we were now with child. Even now looking at my belly and finding out the gender, it’s so hard for me to believe.  But my body is reminding me everyday that this is happening.  God really hears our prayers. Even the ones that we’ve prayed for for years and never thought would be answered.  He secretly waits for the right time to reveal Himself if we stay with Him.  I could have never written the story of my life.  It’s much too complicated and I would’ve keep all of the tragedy out of it.  But it’s the tragedy that has made the triumphs so sweet.  I can’t explain how this pregnancy, this miracle, has affected people. People I don’t even know were crying when they found out about our coming baby.  And I think it’s because Hope was being restored; not only in my life, but in thiers.  It’s a reminder that if God can do this for me, maybe He can do it for other people too. It has been a long winter, but the promise of Spring is here.

Thanks for reading about what God is doing with us.  If you are REALLY bored you can start at the beginning of the story here:

Journey to our blessing!

I will continue to blog as I know family is keeping updated here so please feel free to stop by.  It’s not always about baby stuff as life is much much bigger than baby stuff.  But as we continue to live out our new miracle I ask that you would keep us in your prayers and know that we are praying for God’s blessing and goodness in your life too.