Thank You---

Thank you so much for all the kind and thoughtful comments, emails, phone calls, flowers, balloons, text messages & cards. I can't begin to tell you how very loved and blessed I feel!

I had so many people calling who were just as shocked as I initially was and I realized that I forgot an important one in my list of "believes"...

Do you believe in beating odds that seem impossible?

It was almost exactly a year ago when we were told by a reproductive endocrinologist that we had less than a 1% chance of ever conceiving on our own. We were also told that based on several factors (including the results from many comprehensive tests to determine my ovarian reserve, as well as my known cervical issues), that we were not good candidates for further fertility treatments unless we considered using an egg donor.

It took nearly another entire rollercoaster year,
but we did it and we did it on our own!

It was a year filled with much heartache and frustration. It was probably one of the hardest years of my life. Although we never doubted that there was a plan for our family... we really struggled to understand what it was.

I could not be more thankful for all that this year has taught us about ourselves, each other, our marriage, our faith and our most sacred desires.

It was a year that consisted of "taking a break", a year that had us attending education classes and beginning the application process for adoption, a year that educated me on alternative medicines (I'm a big fan... you can't argue with success), and a year that ultimately had us scheduling an appointment with yet another specialist for a 2nd opinion (and boy did it feel good to be able to cancel that appointment) but most of all it was a year that reminded me that the Lord has a plan for my life and things that he needs for me to learn along the way. Often, the plan that He has for us and what is really best for us might be very different than the one that we may have already mapped out for ourselves. I have learned this many, many times in my life and I'm thankful for yet another reminder.

I don't know what the future holds for us, but I am confident that there are great things in store for us and that these are lessons that we needed to learn.

Plus... I really like being that >1% statistic!

BELIEVE!

(and thanks again for your love, support and prayers!)