Is what I WANT to say each and every time I’m asked this question {which, believe me, is way more often then it should be}.Asking an infertile mother if she’s thought about adoption is like asking a cancer patient if they’ve thought about getting a second opinion or asking a vegetarian if they’ve thought about […]
As per usual, I’m a day late and a dollar short.I waited too long to order the deli platter from Hy-Vee so I had to make one myself for An evening of Sharing Solace with Children’s Orchard Olathe {which, like an idiot, I scheduled on the 9th anniversary of the news that Madelyn would not survive after birth}.Trying to find […]
I found a writing exercise today that I was so completely drawn to it that I couldn’t NOT write. I was given this picture and told to ‘just write’. I immediately saw myself in the window: both AS the window and BEHIND the window. I think many of us who have lost a child {or anyone […]
It was almost exactly nine years, to the day, that I made this trip the last time. I wasn’t alone last time I traveled north on I-29 from St Joseph to Nebraska City – but déjà vu crept eerily into the car until I couldn’t handle the weight of it any longer.Before 2009 I had […]
It just about gave me a panic attack. I actually had to sit down and take big, deep breaths (in through the nose, out through the mouth)…I went to back to the fertility clinic. Not because I need their services but because the doctor I followed around the country is back in Kansas City and […]