Just ONE MORE to love (part 2)

I’M ALMOST AT A LOSS FOR WORDS, BLANK SCREEN HAVING A STARE DOWN WITH ME HERE… IT FEELS INCREDIBLY SURREAL TO BE WRITING THESE WORDS AFTER THINKING THAT PERHAPS OUR LITTLE FAMILY WAS COMPLETE AND SINCE I’VE ALSO STARTED HEADING INTO MY 40’S BUT AS MY BELLY BUMP HAS BEGUN SHARING OUR NEWS WITH CLOSE FRIENDS AND FAMILY, IT FEELS A LITTLE MORE REAL WITH EACH CONGRATULATION. SURREAL AND REAL. BUT THE WORDS STILL NEED TO BE SAID – I’M 15 weeks PREGNANT!! WE HAVE ADOPTED ANOTHER SNOWFLAKE BABY AND ARE fast GROWING INTO A FAMILY OF 5! And I BLAME IT ON THE GUINEA FOWL! 🙂

Just ONE MORE to love (part 1)

It's 9:30pm the night before. I'm conscious of very little right now, except two perfect 5 day old embryos in the waiting. They are currently teeny cryogenically frozen little embabies sharing space on the same straw but tomorrow morning these precious snowflakes will be carefully thawed, observed and then transferred for my body to nourish and hopefully continue the life that has already begun. Entrusted to us. The magnitude!

Hunormous news

So the idea was to sleep in but multi-visits from the cubs and the cats and a MONUMENTAL message from a friend had me bright and upright earlier than I'd mentally diarised!  With fervent fire in my bones and purposeful passion in my heart, I once again remembered the movement that I am made for! This is why I ALWAYS come back to sharing our story and why I have said yes to yet another knee-trembling, mid-word-swallowing public speaking gig next month...

“How we adopted our family”

Thank you to Your Baby Magazine for featuring our 'Story of Love' this month! I gladly accept opportunities to share our adoption journey - it allows me to stretch my head above the 'day to day' rushing to the shops to buy more milk on route to fetching kids from school, right before refereeing the "teacher teacher" game gone awry (because mini designated student has brought his freewill bulldozer into the carefully arranged classroom made up of my no longer carefully arranged lounge cushions). Cue: mom's around the world, nod...

I am One in Six

...BUT have you ever tried keeping a secret like this for over a year? It gets less fun with each month... and at some point you pack away the baby booties (to be unwrapped at the next family gathering followed with shrieks of 'SURPRISE')... and you book that doctors appointment. Which leads to some very black and white letters on this piece of paper...

Fly high, little Aviator

His favourite thing in the world is an aeroplane and he is full of hope and expectation that one day he will be chosen.... to fly in one with his mom and dad to be. But in his words "I must be patient, I can't rush it" and so he draws pictures and keeps on hoping for his forever family. Well, Love is in the air because I got news that the little aviator boarded an aeroplane this weekend

Investing in my circle

When I got the message, I felt Christmas lunch tired and all 'NO-like' but I know how this goes.... i'll wake up the next morning without brain-bloat and will at some point have a solitary sandwiched thought wondering what the course would have been like, in-between stepping on lego, saying 'no' 10 times to a snack 1 minute after little noses turned up at their breakfast and mopping up spilt milk.... OR I COULD JUST SAY YES and probably LOVE IT... which I did...

Sharing our stories

When I first started writing here, it was merely to exercise some thoughts and have a personal mini therapeutic heart workout - quite often between my head, heart and God. I found myself wading through the mudcentre of our particular yet-to-be-met-family-desire, with no idea of how things would work out or if they even would... …

Embryo Adoption Story: {Phillip & Ginny}

Little did they know that through all those tears and years of struggling to start a family, Tripp and Evalynn were frozen… just waiting to be adopted.

UNEXPECTED JOURNEYS

I’ve thought a a lot about why these stories have impacted me so deeply and apart from seeing certain similarities in our own ‘unexpected parenting journey‘ and wanting to be best friends with every single one of these families, I believe these are three real reasons...