I know that it has been a good year since my last blog post, sorry, life got away from me. Nathan returned, we spent precious time together, we moved across the world, finally had our wedding after 2.5 years of marriage, bought our first house, and have settled into our life in Missouri.
I will be honest I have thought about never writing another blog post again. Then other times I have so wanted to hop on and write a post, not necessarily that I am hoping that someone is still reading my blog, but more so to just let my words and emotions out.
For this post I thought I would update you on our lives in Missouri and give you an idea of what I plan to blog about, you can decide from there if you ever want to read my blog again or not.
When we arrived in Missouri we were fortunate to find our house right away, it is the perfect house for us, we love it. We adopted a new dog, Remi. Depending on who you talk to depends on what breed he might be, my personal opinion is he is a redtick coonhound mix of some sorts. Either way he is a perfect dog for living out in the country, lays out in the sun all day, doesn't do a whole lot but protect our property, and he gets along with our other dog, Ellie, perfectly. Having trouble uploading a picture of him right now, but will soon.
I had applied for several jobs as we were moving, hoping to be able to work again right away after we found a place. I had several interviews my first week here, and had offers from all of my interviews, which came the hard part which job to take. I ended up taking the job that I thought I would be happiest at and was supposed to have a schedule that would allow me to be part of on-post activities such as FRG and spouse's club luncheons. Sadly, haven't been able to do as much as I would like with the FRG, but somehow I am the new FRG leader! Also, I haven't been able to make it to a spouse's club luncheon since I started this job. I think a big factor in my unhappiness with it and not being able to do what I want is all of the mandated overtime. It started as soon as I got off of orientation, December-ish, and was supposed to only last about 6 weeks. Well, we just got our email saying the mandated overtime will continue through the summer and there is no perceivable end in sight.
Do you ever want something but know that chances are you will never have it so you then try to trick yourself and try to deny ever wanting it? This is how I was with kids, I have wanted them, but knew due to my medical history that my chances weren't great so for awhile when people asked me about them I said I never wanted them. I didn't want to face the pain or the reality of explaining how I wanted them but probably can't have them, or have them very easily. When we settled into Missouri we started the long road of infertility testing and treatment.
My plan for my blog is to share our experiences of living in Missouri, trying to make the most of what seems like little around us. Spending time with family and friends. Sharing our story of infertility and our journey to, hopefully, a baby. When sharing our infertility journey my plan is to keep the blog as to what is happening a couple of weeks behind, that way as we find out something or something happens Nathan and I have time to process everything, update our families and then will share what is going on. This may seem like such a private thing, but 1 in 10 couples struggle with infertility. It is something that is very hard to deal with sometimes and there is really no reason to feel alone in your battle against it.
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