I can't whistle: Thank You

27 February 2010

Thank You

Sarah here. More good signs. Kate is tired and has intermittent nausea. I read her your wonderful comments over the phone. She will not be online until Monday and I am sure she will have a lot to share at that point! Thank you all for being so amazingly supportive of my sister.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...: Yes - I am so glad to hear that she is tired and nauseous!!!!; February 27, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Illanare said...: Hooray! With the best intentions in the world I say bring on the tiredness and nausea!; February 27, 2010 at 9:57 AM
What IF? said...: Tired and nauseous - awesome! :) Thank you, Sarah, for sharing Kate's 2nd beta news with us and for today's update.; February 27, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Nic said...: Yay to PG signs!! As horrible as they are, its great to have the reasurance!; February 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM
B. said...: Hurray! Thank you, Sarah, for being an above-and-beyond fabulous sister to Kate.; February 27, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Searching for Serenity said...: Thank you Sarah for keeping us in the loop at this very exciting time.; February 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM
robin said...: Happy news! hooray for symptoms!; February 27, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Finn's Mom said...: Yay for barf! Hope Kate is having a rollicking time in NYC in between the hurling feelings and tiredness! And yay for sisters like Sarah!; February 27, 2010 at 11:55 AM
musicmakermomma said...: This is such a miracle - I really needed to hear Kate's good news to help me through my own tough time. I am so excited for her!; February 27, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Baby Smiling In Back Seat said...: Tired and nauseous are exactly how Kate should feel!

Thanks, Sarah.

Have a good weekend -- hope your houses weren't hit too hard by the storm.; February 27, 2010 at 5:19 PM
aimeemax said...: Send my love to Kate too, that second beta is fantastic!; February 27, 2010 at 7:34 PM
myinfertilitywoes said...: Oh, YAY! Those are good numbers!! Fingers crossed and prayers this morning!!; February 28, 2010 at 7:59 AM
sarah said...: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!; February 28, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Melissa said...: So excited for your case of the sickies and sleepies :); February 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM
Michele said...: Please give her all our love from PA!; February 28, 2010 at 8:20 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.

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"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