ICLW and Daydreams

Welcome ICLWers!  You can find my welcome on the tab at the top.  Short story: I’m a therapist who dealt with infertility for a long time before I said enough to ART and decided to adopt.  Been through the ringer just like you, and I get it....

More Mother’s Day Coping

I received this lovely email the other day from the Infertility and Adoption Counseling Center and knew I had to pass it on. I’m not sure how I feel about #4, but I understand how it can be helpful for people.  Warning: The Stuck documentary is extremely...

It’s Around the Corner…

I was reading through some old posts about that fabulous (eh-hem) holiday that most people in the infertility community have some trouble with:  Mother’s Day. Oh yes…it’s back. Some women struggle, because it is a reminder that they are not yet...
Join the Movement: An Ah-Ha Moment

Join the Movement: An Ah-Ha Moment

I remember well the day it happened. I was sitting on the back patio holding a stick.  His favorite stick.  The lavender was newly blooming, the fragrance enveloping me, and the bees flicked around the purple stalks making a loud buzzing sound impossible to ignore.  I...

HAWMC Day 17: Organic Happy Carrots

HAWMC Day 17, here we are!  You can start with day 1 here. Yesterday’s post was a temporary reprieve from HAWMC…just had to say a few words about Boston. Today’s prompt:  Go to wordle.net to create a word cloud or tree from a list of words...