Friendships

  • FAITH,  Friendships,  INFERTILITY,  IVF,  LIFE LESSONS,  TRAVEL

    Go to Napa.

    One of my best girlfriends has been trying to plan a girl’s trip to Napa for years. She finally booked it for last August and then Covid happened, which caused her to cancel. She has always invited me to join, but each year she was planning it, there was something going on in my life which forced me to say no. Two years ago I was getting married…last year we were in the midst of trying to get pregnant and about to start IVF….and then this year she asked again and my answer felt different.  After my last failed IVF cycle in February, I decided that I was going to change…

  • Friendships,  INFERTILITY,  LIFE LESSONS,  RELATIONSHIPS

    The Power of Female Encouragement

    I’m just going to go ahead and get this out here: I am not a “writer”.  I maybe maybe took one writing class in high school, which obviously wasn’t impactful because I can’t remember it.  Writing is my therapy.  And while I am not a trained writer (or maybe even a talented writer), I write from the heart and I am willing to be vulnerable. I’ve thought about starting a blog about 123,854 times. I thought about starting a blog when my dad died.  I thought about starting a blog when I was going through really hard times with my Grave’s Disease.  I feel like there was always a voice…