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Little Mother: Week One Down!

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Friday, March 20, 2015. This week has been really exciting as we began the next big step in our journey-ovarian stimulation! You’re so brave! 8221; Ryan despises needles, so to him, I look like a base jumper :). This has become our routine every night around 7 pm Ryan mixes as I sit and watch. We chat and he stands by as I inject, and I’ve actually come to look forward to this time we have together. And our biggest adventure awaits us. A few of my.

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Little Mother: Catching Up!

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. I don’t know that I have ever been so happy to see a season breathe its last breath- so I could finally take one. I blessed the airplane for taking us away and I blessed the sky for supporting its wings, and I just about kissed the ground beneath my feet as we stepped into the terminal of the Sacramento airport, with cat in tow. The air smelled of new and we were buzzing. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; bu...

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Little Mother: March 2015

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Friday, March 20, 2015. This week has been really exciting as we began the next big step in our journey-ovarian stimulation! You’re so brave! 8221; Ryan despises needles, so to him, I look like a base jumper :). This has become our routine every night around 7 pm Ryan mixes as I sit and watch. We chat and he stands by as I inject, and I’ve actually come to look forward to this time we have together. And our biggest adventure awaits us. A few of my. Days when I receiv...

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Little Mother: April 2015

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Where to begin…. I pulled myself together and walked out into the icy air, and as I approached my car I heard three words in my spirit, loud and clear: Against all odds…. That is all I heard, but that was all I needed. I knew then that we would have a child. It felt like something was being consecrated, and there was such a feeling of reverence in the room-like something sacred was taking place. The waiting was gruesome. We would get our f...

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Little Mother: May 2014

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Monday, May 26, 2014. Mother and child c. 1905. This Mother's Day I received a text from one of my dearest friends who has the habit of telling me what I need to hear before I know I need to hear it. It read:. To the mama whose already asking, and seeking, and carrying a burden for God's very best for her child, Happy Mother's Day.". I blessed them all, and celebrated the mother that lives inside of them, as my friend had me. Sunday, May 25, 2014. I've lived a lot of...

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Little Mother: June 2014

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The mind is so funny. Actually it’s sometimes funny, but mostly it's a pain in the ass. It spins and weaves tall tales and elaborate stories, mostly about me…and my fate, and spends most of its time tying to convince me of the palpability of it’s tapestries…as if to say “look what I’ve made, you’re bound to touch it soon! What is it about uncertainty that the mind hates so much? Why must it replace the unknown with narratives of the future?

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Little Mother: September 2014

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Things have been slow going in this process for a while and then all at once there has been movement. The last few months have unfolded in unexpected ways. They have revealed so much, stolen, and given back and ultimately offered us a gift greater than I could have ever imagined. Would I have to solicit myself on Facebook? Hold a sign on a street corner? I wish I would have trusted Him, but some of my lowest points were hours spent on t...

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Little Mother: June 2015

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. I don’t know that I have ever been so happy to see a season breathe its last breath- so I could finally take one. I blessed the airplane for taking us away and I blessed the sky for supporting its wings, and I just about kissed the ground beneath my feet as we stepped into the terminal of the Sacramento airport, with cat in tow. The air smelled of new and we were buzzing. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; bu...

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Little Mother: The ONE

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Where to begin…. I pulled myself together and walked out into the icy air, and as I approached my car I heard three words in my spirit, loud and clear: Against all odds…. That is all I heard, but that was all I needed. I knew then that we would have a child. It felt like something was being consecrated, and there was such a feeling of reverence in the room-like something sacred was taking place. The waiting was gruesome. We would get our f...

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Little Mother: January 2015

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Documenting my Journey to Motherhood. Saturday, January 24, 2015. I’m still on the mend but have made huge strides, even in the last few days since my previous post. My spirits are up, I’m less grumpy, and I ate half a hardboiled egg yesterday. Big news for my intestines. I guess that’s human nature for you. We all want a little context for our situations, some familiarity, and to stand on the shoulders of those that have gone before us. Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban used a surrogate to have thei...