I can't whistle: opportunity

22 March 2010

opportunity

Life is funny how it goes, isn't it?
Doors close.
And when it feels very unlikely, sometimes doors open.
Or a new door appears where there wasn't one.

My dear friend Denise, of Bohogirl fame, just posted something that might be of interest to some of you out there.
It is about an adoption possibility, facilitated though the same wonderful woman who helped Denise adopt her beloved son. I've been in touch with her myself before, much earlier in this journey, and I can tell you she is terrific. If this resonates with your heart- just please check this out. Denise is a love, and so is her friend Tammy.
http://bohophotography.blogspot.com/2010/03/potential-private-adoption.html

3 comments:

aimeemax said...: I'm so glad to read that all is going well with your pregnancy Kate!; March 22, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Anonymous said...: I just caught up on your posts - so freaking ecstatic that all is well; March 23, 2010 at 1:06 AM
B. said...: I was out of touch for a few days, but managed to eke out a few minutes this morning to check on you. So happy and relieved to hear that all is well and you've been kicked out of the IF clinic. Try not to take the lack of attention personally now that you're "just another pregnant woman." I'm looking forward to seeing you with a nice big pregnant belly in a few months! Congratulations!; March 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM

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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