National Infertility Awareness Week

I realize it's been awhile since I've posted.  I'm feeling like such a slacker not getting things posted here, but I'm going to take a minute for a PSA on National Infertility Awareness Week.  If you follow me on Facebook, you will notice that I've posted there about it.  A MoM friend of mine was posting, and I definitely used her posts to help me out.  For over two years I didn't speak up.  I didn't talk about the fact that I was going through fertility treatments.  I kept it to myself...and cried by myself.  It's not fair.  Infertility is a disease.  It is a MEDICAL condition.  I still really hope to work with legislators to get it recognized as such in all FIFTY states, but that's something I'm still working on right now and will post more when I have more info!  For now, I am going to repost my facts from my Facebook page to here for my readers to see and for my friends and family to see all in one place.

Keeping Busy

I've noticed that now that I'm going to have more time in my weeks and days with my new job, I'm searching for ways to fill it.  Not that that's difficult.  Cleaning my house (and keeping it that way) would be a big start...but hey, you do what you gotta do.  One of the big things I'm throwing myself into is forms of charity work.

Ch-ch-changes

I recently posted this on my Facebook, so this is repetitive for most, but I got a new job!!

Alone

Let me first say that I don't mean this to at all be about anyone specific...it's about my feelings in general right now.  Probably mostly ungrounded, but I just need to get it out there...  This isn't a pity party...just need to get my feelings out because I just don't feel like I have anywhere else to turn with them right now...

A few months ago, talking to an college roommate, she mentioned another friend (and roommate) of ours who I haven't talked to a lot lately.  The friend lost a sibling while we were in college.  She said that she felt that reaching out to me to rekindle a friendship that hasn't been present for awhile would be unfair to me because she remembers all the people that reached out to her and then disappeared in her grief journey.  I appreciated that and thought it was kind despite not really understanding it.  Recently, I've noticed exactly what she was talking about...

There are no words....

I recently came across this article talking about how there is little media coverage on this trial.  I had to read it out of curiosity.  It's disgusting.  I don't go off on my political views on my blog much, and I will say that I am pro-choice, WITHIN REASON.  This is without a doubt, the most disgusting thing I have ever heard.

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2072577

Wear a Star

A friend invited me to this event on FB.  As I checked it out, I realized how cool it is.  I will be wearing stars for Samuel & Andrew.  And another one for all the other babies I know.  Remembering our little stars....

To visit the event online, visit here: http://therproject.org/wearastar/
To join the Facebook event go here: https://www.facebook.com/events/345573115547370/?fref=ts

The goal is 50,000 people.  Let's help!

The Grief Journey of Infertilty

I have over 120 blog posts, so I'm not 100% sure that I have talked about this by itself.  With PCOS, I suffer from infertility.  Over 3 years of fertility treatments and 1 round of IVF got us our boys.  It was emotional, time consuming, frustrating, and costly.  It wasn't easy.  And I didn't think we'd ever be back here, but here we are.

I wonder...

It's been awhile since I posted and honestly, it's because I haven't known what to write about...but I've been wondering about a lot of things lately...