Tissue Paper Infant Sensory Activity

We tried a new activity yesterday and Geneva loved it. I swear she could have played with it all day, if it weren't for nap time. I saw this posted first on Instagram, and it's brilliant! All you need is aluminum foil or tissue paper and a chair or couch! Place the tissue paper or...

An Easter Sensory Activity

I'm a little late to the game. Easter was this past weekend, and while we most definitely made our baby girl an Easter basket and took her to see the Easter Bunny... I didn't think of this activity until about Tuesday. Since I am terrible at remembering to vacuum, I generally lay down the baby...

Goals

Something that I really struggle with now that I am a mom is taking care of myself. Lunch? Oh, but the baby is hungry, or tired, or cranky, or needs something from me right now. And then it's 3 hours later and I realize I haven't eaten anything all day. I've been working on it....

The Next Thing

I used to be a person who knew what they wanted in life. I used to have direction. I worked really hard towards my goals and heck, I was pretty darn successful. I was that kid growing up who knew exactly what they wanted their adult life to look like. And for a while, I...

Our Adoption Story

It's been quite a long time since I have turned to this blog as a way to vent my feelings. I look at the last posts and it takes me right back to our fertility struggles. The feelings are still so real and raw. Only now we have a 4 month old. Yep. We finally...

Untitled.

It's taken me a few weeks to feel like I can write this post without falling apart. It's been a long few weeks and I am still struggling with it a bit. As many of you know, we decided to do one more round of IVF. It took me a few months to even be...

The Working Dilemma of a Military Spouse

It is a well known fact that many military spouses are unemployed or under employed. So many of us struggle to grow any sort of careers while our husbands serve. There's a certain stigma about hiring a military spouse. Employers think, oh... they will be leaving soon and I want to employ someone long term....

In the End of IVF

It's been almost a week since we got results. I've written this post several times and just haven't quite been able to make it feel right. It's been hard to write this post because I don't feel the things I anticipated that I would feel. I didn't want to write it in the heat of...

Transfer

The days leading up to transfer were crazy. There was a ton of back and forth on what the plan was and it was so frustrating not to know at all times what was going on with my embryos. Were they growing? How many were still left? The plan first changed right before retrieval, and...

Waiting Begins

There is a lot of waiting involved in fertility. This begins the waiting for IVF. The day after retrieval you get a call from the embryologist to tell you how many mature eggs you had and how many of those fertilized. I was a nervous wreck. This is the second huge hurdle and I hated...