In a year's time

August 5, 2010 was my first blog post. I was new to the blog world and still am but every time I get to sit and write a post I really enjoy it. It may not always be good news but when it is it's the most wonderful feeling to share it here. I like to go back and see how much has changed in a year. One of our first pictures on here is of the IVF experience. I don't even look back to those days, not an option and don't ever want to go through that again. We learned a lot from it, to make decisions slower, to pray for what God wants not what we want, and to be responsible for our decisions. It was a time for hope for us but in the end it became more pain than anything else. We grieved a lot in the 4 months it took to complete. Not that the road of adoption has been easy either but we can say that it is more gratifying than anything we have done before even with the failed adoption because we knew it was God's plan for us not our plan. We had already surrendered at that point. It was real. Once a pastor told us that we can not grasp grace. I think we are getting close. It has not been all about building our family while we have had time to just be a married couple and travel and do things we may not get to do for a very long time, it was nice to spend it with my husband. Grace.