Quick update! TWO embryos fertilized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The nurse called at 8:30am this morning and said 8 eggs were retrieved, one was immature, BUT, two FERTILIZED! I can’t tell you how much joy I have in my heart right now. To think that there are two Dan and Kristin’s hanging out at the clinic right now. It is…
We are home! I am going to warn you – I am still under the influence of IV sedation and valium, so some of the sentences and trains of thought I have, might not make a whole lot of sense. We arrived in Grand Rapids a little before 8:45am, and there sure weren’t a lot of people there at…
Continuing our embryo adoption story… Our hearts ached. Ached and ached for those who were in the same predicament we were in: desiring children. Dan and I would sit in our living room and have conversation after conversation, talking about how we could possibly help these couples. These couples can carry, but cannot conceive. We…
With Mother’s Day approaching, it can be an occasion that can bring such mixed emotions for so many people. Last year, Dan and I were in South Carolina and we were so at peace with Mother’s Day. There was a reading that we had gone through at the church we attended down there and it…
I was thinking about how to describe today. I opened up my email and saw I had a facebook message from my friend Kelli. She wanted to let me know about a quote she heard today and she thought of us: Carrying your baby doesn’t make you a mom – it is what happens when…
God has been doing something very unique in our life over the past month and a half. God has renewed our hope with regards to our future and kids. God has provided in ways we could have NEVER imagined. We were trying to figure out how to express what has been going on in our life recently and the best way…
