3 posts tagged “life”

Ten years and then some have come and gone. Where has your life taken you? Far enough removed from high school that you can look back on it without cringing? Or perhaps it has taken you far enough so that you can look back and cringe. Either way, you're welcome here. I invite you to come share your joys and trials with people who are going through or have gone through the same things. Just add this group to your regular posts. It's a simple way for us to keep up with each other's lives. Who knows, some of us may be able to offer advice, support and commiseration, because even though life has taken us on many different paths, it's funny how we all manage to meet up here and there at the same stops along the way. We're all about the same age, remember. We are all from the Class of 1996.

Show us your favorite winter activity.

I wouldn't know. It's 77 degrees today in Georgia. Global warming?

I saw this perspective meme-- at Heidi's blog and thought I'd give it a go. I had to write out the years to keep it all straight in my head.

2008 One week ago --
I was getting ready for Thanksgiving
Looking forward to my husband having a week off from work

2007 One year ago --
I was three months pregnant with Emma.

2006 Two years ago --
I was five months pregnant with Micah.
I had just found out that I was having a boy.
We had recently decided to move into our current house.

2005
2004

2003 Five years ago --
I was six months pregnant with Joel.

2002
2001
2000
1999

1998 Ten years ago --
I was engaged to my husband.

It pretty much hits all the highlights and glosses right over the years of infertility. Until I did this, I didn't realize I was already five years removed from the thick of it. I don't understand it all, to look at this I look like the most fertile person ever, baby after baby after baby.   And maybe I am now, I don't know, but those years of infertility and a miscarriage are seared on my consciousness. It changed how I conceptualized my family and the world around me. I'd like to think, and I guess I do believe that I am a better person having gone through it, but even believing that, I can't say that I would ever choose for myself or anyone else to have to go through years of infertility.