The Road Less Traveled

Lets see here- since June, I feel like haven't hardly slowed down. I know everyone gets busy that time of year with summer vacations, then end of summer mini vacations, beginning of the school year, beginning of fall, FOOTBALL and everything pumpkin. We've taken  a break from going to the doctor for treatments for a while just so we can get out of the hole of medical bills that we have before adding any more to it. And we haven't exactly had time to go to the doctor any way. I don't remember if I have said this before and don't currently have the energy to go back and look in my previous post  so in case I haven't said it before, One-A-Day preconception health/prenatal pills are my new favorite things. This is because they are the ONLY vitamins I have ever been able to take and it not make me nauseous. I have no idea why vitamins make me nauseous but no matter what I would do- take them early, take them late, take them with food, that them with out food- I would...

Well thank goodness for a vacation at the end of this week! Much needed time away from the craziness of work and regular day to day life! It will be my first time going to a beach on the North Carolina coast which seems like a bad thing to say since I am from NC. 😆 I have always gone to the beach in South Carolina (Myrtle Beach or Isle of Palms) so I am excited to go and see the NC coast. Going to be too far south to go the the Outer Banks but that just leaves another adventure to have on another trip! 😃 But for this trip, I am sooo excited to go to the beach and be around water!! Water and the sounds it makes is so soothing. I am driving my husband crazy with do to list and packing that has already started. We will also be going to his cousin's wedding while we are down there so it will be good to see family and spend time with them also! Going to wedding always remind me of how much I love my husband and how blessed I am to have him! No real up dates on fertility (or the lack ...

Crying really helps get everything out sometimes. I know it drives my husband crazy for me to cry but it really does just give ya that release of emotions to be able to get it out and move on. Another month of not being pregnant just brought me to a few days of just wanting to cry and feeling hopeless. Then once I got it out, I felt ready to continue on and just keep loving life with my amazing husband and waiting for the Lord to bless us with a child. As we come to the end of Infertility Awareness Week, I wanted to make sure I got a blog in this week to let anyone know, who does read the ramblings of this old mountain girl from North Carolina, there is hope. One day we will have a child whether we grow that child in my womb or in love in our hearts through adoption- there is hope. Friends continue to tell me stories they know of people who tried for many years and then finally had children many years after trying, some after getting on an adoption list and even some that adopted a...

So...wow...it has been a while since I have had time to sit down and type up an update. There has been A LOT going on since November. So I will try to go chronologically. With in a few hours of my last blog being written, my amazing nephew was born. Jace is my second nephew and it was such a blessing to be able to be a part of his coming into this world. I help my brother and sister in law out by staying at night in the hospital while my brother stayed with their other son at night so he wouldn't have too much disruption to his life. It was so amazing to be able to be there with my sister in law after she gave birth and to get to spend that time with Jace at night when she was trying to get some rest in between feedings. Jace is now 4 months old and an absolute joy to be around. His older brother Will is doing AMAZING with him and loves him. In December, we started off the month with my father being in the hospital. He actually was admitted at the end of November but ended up s...