I can't whistle: hear ye hear ye

14 September 2015

hear ye hear ye

Della pooped on the potty.

there will be cake.

3 comments:

Mo said...: yay!!!!; September 14, 2015 at 6:55 PM
Erin Bakal said...: Way to go Ms. Della! Oh my heavens, what a big girl you are becoming!

Sending you lots of love and laughter to keep yourself sane as you work through this journey that is parenthood.; September 16, 2015 at 8:51 AM
tireegal68 said...: OMG!!! I know how big that is! I think Isobel did that once and thrn never she in for about a year! And still not! Big accomplishment!; September 18, 2015 at 8:45 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