The Future

What Is

by Kathy on January 24, 2011 · 8 comments

in Abby, Bob, Decisions, Frozen Embryos, Hope, Molly, The Future, Transitions

It has been a very emotional week for me for a variety of reasons. I will likely post about some of the reasons here in the days to come, but for now I want to share about just one of them. I got a call this morning from the director of the stem cell research […]

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In case you haven’t read about Mel’s latest amazing idea/partnership with Resolve called “Project IF,” please click here to do so before reading the rest of my post. Isn’t this an awesome way for people to express their hopes, dreams and fears as they relate to their ALI (Adoption, Loss and/or Infertility) journeys?! I certainly […]

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Omega and Alpha

by Kathy on February 24, 2010 · 7 comments

in Abby, Bob, CHD, Frozen Embryos, Molly, Quotes, Sean, The Future

If you have been watching the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada on television over the past two weeks, as Bob and I have been most nights, you may have noticed during many of the events that when the athletes have completed an event (whether timed, judged or both), that a red bar shows up on […]

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Another week down and two to go… if our new baby girl doesn’t arrive early! 🙂 This journey continues to be such an awesome and strange mix of emotions as we prepare to meet our third child/second daughter. The closer we get to her scheduled birth (via c-section) on September 17, the more real this […]

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Molly’s Godparents, my sister Meg and her husband Bill (pictured here on their wedding day last September), are working with The Cradle (in Evanston, Illinois) to adopt a child. The Cradle encourages couples waiting to be matched to network, as many adoptions are identified from outside the agency (even out of state). Meg and Bill […]

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Three weeks from tomorrow (Thursday), if all goes well, we will get to meet our new baby girl. If she is born healthy, in theory we will get to bring her home a few days later. Did I really just type that? It’s been over five years since Bob and I started trying to have […]

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