I can't whistle: see?

23 August 2009

see?

see? I knew I would accidentally forget someone, because I suck at this.
Sooooooo who did I forget? Hmm? Any guesses?

I FORGOT HOPE! which is so profound really that I hardly know what else to say.

Hope from Living in Hope, please accept both my apology for not including you yesterday and the lovely blog award.

5 comments:

Michele said...: you are too funny, Kate!; August 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Eb said...: If I could sing online I would do the that do do do do spooky theme tune.
Yeah, too much sugar for me today!; August 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM
aimeemax said...: Awww - I've been avoiding the interwebs and only just now saw your kind acknowledgement. I think you are definitely a lovely blogger.

I ovulated too (as you know) so we shall live in our TWW together and be hopeful that for us both the odds work in our favour. Someone has to make up that 4-5%. Let it be us.

:o); August 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM
K said...: I'm sure you've been nominated before...but I didn't see the award. So I nominated you again for an award. Check out my blog.; August 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Hope said...: It really was no problem but Thank you Kate! Here's to Hope :-); August 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM

About this blog

I started this blog during struggles with infertility--struggles that resulted in countless IUIs, medications, procedures, 5 attempted IVF cycles, 2 pregnancies, one heartbreaking loss, and one miracle baby.

Parenthood left me feeling like I was not sure what to do here, with this amazing community. To talk about parenting felt boastful for those still and forever struggling. To not talk about it felt disingenuous. So here I am. I want to talk about my real life. Parenting. Midlife reassessment. Flailing. Finding myself. Mucking about.

So yes, I am a midlife parent of an amazing child.
Yes, I battled infertility and will be forever changed by every single moment of that journey.
I am imperfect and life is messy, but it is also so beautiful.

Among many other things, I hope to reconnect to myself through writing here. And I hope to connect with you too. Others out there, parenting maybe later in life. Maybe after struggling. Maybe struggling still. We can all use a safe place and a lot of compassion. That's what I am offering to you. I hope you'll stick around.

inside out

"The key is, starting from the inside out. Often you say, “I don’t know what to do.” True, you don’t know what to do. There are infinite possibilities. And a bunch of them haven’t worked for you. A lot of them have been tried, and they haven’t worked under what you think are the same conditions. And so, you sort of pace around, you don’t know what to do. Sometimes you don’t even know what you want to have. But you always, you always, if you will stop and think about it, you ALWAYS know how you want to feel."

--Abraham