Huge Exciting News!! And...thank you!

Hello everyone,

I hope this post finds you healthy and blessed.

When we first moved to the USA, I started to dabble into the world of blogging. I always enjoyed reading and writing, and I thought blogging would be a great way to combine my two passions. I also thought it would be a great way to connect with others while being able to maintain a family life.

I started with Blogger from Gmail because I wanted to dip my toe into the "blog world". I attempted several platforms - avid book reader, traveler, corporate life to housewife...  but it all failed. Within a few weeks, I found myself unmotivated and not able to post regularly. Eventually, I stopped...until about a couple of years ago. 

Life threw me a huge curve ball when infertility became part of our marriage. It all started with a miscarriage and then, my whole life changed. I was a woman who felt like a broken vase. I had shattered into a million pieces and no amount of glue could put me back together.

Throughout my journey, the heavy burden of loneliness became my companion. As my journey progressed, I desperately wanted to find a community that was suffering like me. I started to learn more about Natural Family Planning and within a few months, I went to get trained and started teaching the method I was using to learn about not only my fertility but to get a medical diagnosis on what was causing our infertility. I wanted to be able to help women, single or married, to better understand their reproductive and be prepared no matter the outcome.

Along the way, I met so many great women who shared my pain. I was on my way to recovery while they were just starting. I knew what they felt and was encouraged to keep sharing my story because I knew someone out there needed to know they were not alone. As adoption became how we could grow our family, I had to learn so much about grieving infertility while starting an adoption process. It was a roller-coaster of emotions. 

Since starting this blog, I found out that when it comes to writing, it is best to write about what you know. What I know is: infertility, infant loss, adoption and motherhood amidst adoption. For this reason, I am making a huge leap into a bigger platform. 

Starting this Thursday, I will be launching my new blog: bestillinwaiting. The topics will center around infertility, adoption and motherhood via adoption. My goal is to provide an oasis to all those who are either beginning their infertility journey, are in the darkest moments of it or are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I would love to build a community for all of us who have been gifted with infertility - yes, I did write "gifted with infertility" - if you have been following me for a while, you know why I write this.

As much as I enjoyed writing on this platform, it is time for me to go out and play the big "blogger" game. My hope is to reach out to others and learn from others who have gone through infertility an adoption or are thinking of adoption or have just found out they are infertile and want support.

No matter your journey - there is place for everyone here. It is Catholic centered because...yes, I am Catholic! But, I hope and wish for women and men of all faiths  - or no faith - to be part of this new community. Inferttility has no preference, no zip code, no gender - it hits us all! Together, we can grow in the hope that no other woman and man has to face infertility alone. So, men, rejoice because you are a part of the community as well - so please join!

I hope you can come join us and tell your friends and family about it!

It has been a huge pleasure and honor to write and be vulnerable with you all. I keep you in prayer and hope you be still in waiting.

SM