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The Humanities of Infertility
In my prayer life, I’ve often observed that God uses many resources to send me messages of hope, encouragement, and mercy to increase my faith, which in turn allows me to trust in Him even more fully. I tend to have a more Carmelite heart when it comes to the silence observed in prayer, and I find that sometimes my fear keeps me from truly feeling still and even motivated to spend the much needed time in this quiet place of reflection. But lately, I’ve noticed how much meaning and love He’s been showering me with in so many forms all around me that make me even more aware of…
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Post-Op Tea Party for the Tummy
We just got back from surgery #6 with the St. Pope Paul VI Institute. This is picture of our Mommy and daughter recovery tea party for my tummy (not on my tummy!) now that we are finally at home recovering. We actually learned about the need for surgery #6 about six months prior to this one just after surgery #5. Can you believe it? I actually ended up having 2 out of town surgeries during COVID-19! Even worse than that, God made sure #6 was performed on this past Holy Thursday. Believe you me, I tried extremely hard to find a reason to not have surgery during Holy Week! This…
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Am I Being Punished?
Some of the questions I seem to keep pondering and coming back to are “what more can I do or try?” and “have I done something wrong that this keeps continuing?”. Sometimes, I almost feel as though there is a punishment involved with me somehow deserving infertility as a consequence. Even reading these questions now I feel this big “gulp” in my throat trying not to react to them! It’s not easy to feel yourself begin to isolate into the “not normal” group over here having an out of body experience as you watch your “normal” version of family grow and thrive all around you and that you so happen…
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Our Story
John and I have been blessed with a fruitful marriage for nearly 10 years this spring. We married in Virginia and John welcomed me into his larger Air Force Family for his last 7 years of service. He retired from the Air Force in 2017, and he now has his dream follow on career happily working here in Central Florida. My background is in Medical Imaging (Radiography and Mammography) prior to becoming a military wife, and I am now even more blessed to take on the role of a stay at home/homeschooling Mommy to our adopted daughter that we named Grace. From the very start of our marriage, we attempted…
