By His Grace

So, I've decided to share my blog with everyone - and by everyone I mean all of Facebook. I know I will now have family members and friends who will probably wonder why I have never shared this blog with them before and hopefully everyone will be understanding.

I originally started this blog for just myself. It was a great outlet and very therapeutic to be able to write about my loss and struggle with infertility. Then it became a way to document our adoption journey. I have not posted all of the details about the birthmoms who have come into our lives just out of respect but I have indeed documented what I felt like was appropriate or what I felt like writing about and re-living through words.

I used to be a pretty good writer in my younger years. With this blog I started out checking all of my sentences and spelling but as the months and years have gone on I stopped caring so much about sentence structure and form and just typed whatever the heck came to mind.

I decided to share this blog with everyone with the hope to encourage others, no matter what they might be going through. I also would like to encourage other adoptive moms who may be going through a tough adoption journey of their own. I know it has helped me tremendously to read other adoption blogs. I may not be the best writer but I provide very real thoughts. Whatever you might be going through - whether it related to your journey to parenthood or something completely different - I encourage you to find a creative outlet to help yourself get your thoughts out whether it is writing, painting, drawing, singing, ballroom dancing (I know that is a little random but there is a fairly new ballroom dancing place near where I live that I think would be so cool to try out), etc.

For the most part I am a private person so sharing this blog is a big step for me and I still feel a little funny and weird sharing my blog so publicly. My writing can be very awkward, sarcastic and most of all jumbled but it's honest writing. My blog is not too fancy and I have still not put up pictures because that was not the original purpose of my blog. Maybe soon I will start adding pictures and making it cute but for now I just care about the writing.

So, here it is. Here is me. Feel free to start reading from here or from the very beginning. The only things that have really changed since my very first post almost two and a half years ago is 1) I don't have a dream or desperation to becoming pregnant and I don't care what or who my children look like and 2) I started drinking sweet tea again.