Reflections for 2012
I love New Year’s Resolutions. It is such a wonderful time of year for self reflection and goal setting. This year I am wonderfully beginning my life as a SAHM and I’m so excited to live what I feel is my authentic calling. After all the sadness of infertility, the difficulties with my pregnancies, being in a wonderful job with a horrible boss – in 2012 I’ll be doing the most important work in the world: raising the next generation. I’m just…fricking giddy! So, this year, my thoughts were much more philosophical than concrete. I wanted a theme...
Read More2011 A Horrible, Wonderful Year
Ah 2011. What can I say about you? My first reaction is that 2011 SUCKED BIG TIME. I mean at least 70% of the days of this year were some of the hardest of my life. And yet, in all the ways that really matter, you know those ways that will matter in 5, 10, 20 years, 2011 was full of life-changing blessings. I mean I welcomed two baby boys into my family AND I became (at last) a stay at home mom. I guess the problem was, as will most things, my blessings came with much blood, sweat and tears. I started the year with an extended hospital stay to keep my babies from being born too...
Read More30 Days of Thanks
I started doing one a day but it got to be too much. So here’s my list of what I’m thankful for this year (in no particular order): I am thankful for; My wonderful husband who dares to think outside society’s box to create the life we want. Sometimes going against the grain is an act of sheer heroism. The Partnership for Families that funded our IVF and FET when all hope seemed lost. My beautiful daughter, Aellyn. Sometimes I look at her and I can already see the caring and wonderful adult she’ll be. Other times I can’t fathom the complexity of human spirit that she...
Read MoreA Big Announcement
No, I’m not pregnant! Infertile, remember??? You’d know if I was going through treatment. This is just as exciting, scary, and life changing. Today is my first day as a Stay at Home Mom (SAHM)!!! I can’t say that the circumstances are the best. The situation at work has been negatively affecting my health since last October and was only getting worse each day. We aren’t in the best place financially since we were waiting for Pete to replace my job before I quit. But, I think time will show it to be the best thing that ever happened to us. For now, I have to...
Read MoreWhat Atheism Taught Me About Parenting
I’m a Christian (and unfortunately I feel the need to note that I’m not the crazy kind) but there are things about traditional Christian parenting that I don’t agree with (spanking, for example). I enjoy reading secular parenting blogs because I think they have great ideas for teaching many things. A few years ago I was watching CSPAN (yes, I like CSPAN) and it had a talk at an Atheist convention by Julia Sweeny (of SNL’s Pat fame) about raising Atheist kids. She was talking about how people assume, wrongly, that Atheists are amoral. That they don’t teach...
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
From time to time I like to do a Good, Bad, and Ugly post because it seems a nice way to catch up when I’ve been MIA for a while – as I have been this summer! I really want to get back into blogging – writing and reading! – this fall but I have to tell you everything that’s been going on with me. Including why I’ve been so silent. So, in reverse order: The Ugly Post Partum Depression (PPD). It shouldn’t be surprising that I succumbed to PPD given my list of risk factors: previous clinical depression, infertility/IVF, twins pregnancy, bed rest,...
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