I had such a moment of clarity on Christmas Eve. I went to a Church Service, and I sat with my alternative family - my pseudo Mum & Dad, my pretend sister and her family. And I realised that, that moment will reflect the rest of my life. I may not share genetics with my future child/ren but they will be my family.
I have hope again, something that has been missing for a while. I have a future family. It may not happen in a traditional manner (although we bypassed traditional a while again), but we will have a family.
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"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories, in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally."
-Frederick Buechner
-Frederick Buechner
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- Welcome to my blog - it's my pathway to sanity! I have PCOS and Endo. We ttc for 7 years and endured treatments like Clomid, Met and IVF and ICSI. After 7 years of fighting to become pregnant, we decided to follow the adoption path. Having been approved to adopt in Oct 2010, our son boy-o was placed with us in Mar 2011 - follow us on our ongoing journey...
That really important List - the Stirrup Queen's List of Blogs
Blogs I read...
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Dancing in the Rain…5 years ago
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Baby M.9 years ago
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Coming Up for Air12 years ago
UK adoption blogs
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Still here8 years ago
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back to school blue9 years ago
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A Review of 20149 years ago
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The End11 years ago
3 comments:
I'm glad your feeling hopeful. It's hard sometimes in the midst of all of the disappointment. So please hold on to that moment and that image of your alternate family. Good luck
Eva, from ILCW
What a beautiful post. Yes, you wil be a mom regardless whether your children share your genes. Genetics doesn't define family. You and your husband don't share the same genes, but you ARE family.
Dawn at CreatingaFamily.org
Hope is glorious thing. I am so happy you were able to find yours again. Good luck to you in February.
Here from ICLW.
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