May 13, 2011

  • Babies

    We love babies. There can never be too many babies.  The more babies the better.  We love our babies.  We love your babies.  We want everyone to have babies. 

    Thankfully, there are several people working on having some babies.  We are so thrilled to get to play with them! 

    We also have friends who are waiting for babies.  I want you to know that I'm praying for you.  I pray that God will grant you the desires of your heart. 

    I just have to share some articles I've bookmarked as I've watched my dear friends painfully wait.  If you struggle with infertility read them.  If your friend struggles with infertility read them so you can you wrap your arms around her.  Arms of support, understanding and love.

    LAF - Coping with infertility.

    Rocks In My Dryer - A "what I'd like you to know" article about infertility

    c jane enjoy it - At the time C Jane wrote this, she had just had her first child after YEARS of inferitlity.  She was also caring for her sister, Stephanie's four babies.  Stephanie and her husband were in an airplane crash and had severe burns over much of their bodies.  Today, the kids are back home with their parents and C Jane is expecting her THIRD child.    

Comments (7)

  • You are such a sweet thoughtful person!  I admit I laughed when I read the first paragraph... something about it just tickled my funny bone. 

    We have friends who struggled for years to get pregnant.  They had been scrimping and saving for some very expensive fertilization procedures when she found out she was pregnant :)   They gave the money away to missions in Africa instead. 

  • @inanorchard - That first paragraph is silly.  I hope that even in my silliness, my point comes across that we CELEBRATE all these new little lives we are blessed with but yet grieve for those that wait. 

    That is a beautiful and wonderful testimony!  :)   I hope there are many many mores like your friends. 

  • Amanda thank you so much for this blog!  You are such a beautiful person inside and out.  It was such a blessing to read this. 

    We have struggled with this for years and it has been the hardest thing we have had to deal with.  There was not a day that would go by that I would not cry and just wonder why this was happening to us.  All we wanted was to have a child.  We didn't think it would be this hard.  Test after test...procedure after procedure we just kept hitting road blocks.  We were at the point we just wanted to throw our hands up and quit...BUT then we came to realize that God must have bigger plans for us.  

    Someone very close and dear to my heart told me "Not everyone can be loving and caring parents to someone elses child...it takes very special people to be able to do this and I believe that is what God has instore for you and Adam".  We thought and prayed about this and we just left it in God's hands. 

    One day out of the blue we get a call from an old friend who says "I have the perfect child for you.  I don't know if it will be a forever child but he needs you now".  I did not like the fact of not knowing but I thought why would I get this call now if it was not God's plan.  I said great we will come and get him now.  After many phone calls to our family we jump in our vehicle to go get him.  While driving we have so many emotions that I can't even begin to decribe them.  Tears are flowing down our face and we have yet to even see this angel.  When we walk in and I finally see him I just start crying that much harder.  I just held him in my arms and I never wanted to let him go.  He was the most beautiful child I had ever seen and I knew after holding him he was my angel. 

    The road in front of us would be long and hard but my sweet husband always would tell me he was not worried about it and that he was our child and that would never change.  There were days I just wished I could feel the same way as he did but I was always so scared I would have to give him back but thank God that never happened.  God had already picked us to be his parents before we even laid eyes on him.  

    I didn't give him birth but I have given him all the love that a mother could give a child.  He is such a blessing to us and we love him more than words can describe. 

    Don't ever give up and always remember God may have bigger plans for your family as well.  There are so many children out there that needs good homes.  I pray that one day every child will have a great home and loving parents.

    Thanks again for this Amanda and I will keep all your friends in my prayers. 

  • @godseyfamily - Jenn, you have left me in a big puddle of tears.  Thanks so much for sharing this.  You don't know what a difference your testimony makes.  Beautiful.  Just beautiful.  I love you, dear friend and I am so thankful for this blessing in your and Adam's lives.  God is good. 

  •      This is something I really haven't shared with many... I was terribly tickled reading this, and Amanda: you are just one of the most awesome people I know!  It has been a secret desire of my heart-absolutely- to have another baby. I know I look at you guys and everyone with children & especially babies all the time with a yearning in my heart.  It's pretty much a non-stop thing. My husband had a vasectomy many years before I met him.  Since we were married, he underwent the reversal procedure as a surprise for me. (I didn't know it until afterwards).  So, my hopes went way up.  But since then; we have not been trying to have a baby, and, as it turns out, things are not WORKING out. So, I've been filled with a lot of questions for God: "Was this ever even meant to be for me? Perhaps it's never going to happen, or maybe just not with THIS man...Have I screwed up so badly that I would not be rewarded in this way?", and the list goes on.

    Finally, I've decided to just set all of this on a shelf somewhere, even though; I'm not getting any younger.  I think God wants to work on me some more, for now, and, after all: my GOD, The One Almighty Father not only knows the secret desires of my heart, but He knows whats best for me.  It's His Will that I want for my life above all else. So, in a way, I've resigned myself to accepting that it might not ever happen.  However; I still let a glimmer of hope remain in my heart, 'cause I know He can do anything, even in the most unseeming of circumstances.  One thing that's consistent about life is change.  I decide to roll with it!

    Thanks Amanda, you made it ok for me to express myself, and ok for me to feel what I'm feeling today! YOU ROCK!  

  • @poweringrace4u -  "However; I still let a glimmer of hope remain in my heart, 'cause I know He can do anything, even in the most unseeming of circumstances."  So very very true.  Prayers for you, friend.  Love ya!

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