This post is the sixth in a series called The Gap. Please click here to read from the beginning. I know I haven’t touched on this series for awhile, but this post has been a cautious work in progress. Something about grief we don’t often talk about: I choose when and how I step out […]
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The Gap: On Unexpected Joy
This post is the fifth in a series called The Gap. Please click here to read from the beginning. There were many things on this journey that I wasn’t expecting. I wasn’t expecting to be able to picture a future without children. I could not have anticipated the peace that came with realizing our life […]
The Gap: On Identity
This post is the fourth in a series called The Gap. Please click here to read from the beginning. I wish I could say this didn’t almost break me. I wish I could say that walking this road was easier than the initial days of infertility… those days of testing and diagnosis and intensely invasive […]
The Gap: On Guilt
This post is the third in a series called The Gap. Please click here to read from the beginning. We were driving home from church. It was a bright, sunny day and the roads were quiet for a Sunday morning. ‘I’ve been thinking…’ I wasn’t sure how to have this conversation. We were a year […]
The Gap: On Confusion
Last week we looked at the second post in a mini-series titled The Gap, in which we are exploring the road that took us from pursuing parenthood to embracing our life as two. We left off last week standing ankle-deep in confusion and uncertainty. For four years, I had desired a single thing: to be […]