Howdy!
Sorry for not sending an update recently. With Thanksgiving this past week, and friends and family flying in and out with all the festivities we have been incredibly busy. Now however, the trees are up..all 6 indoors..and 11 outdoors, lights are hung, mistletoe hung and the Christmas decoration adorning every room we are now settling down for the next exciting holiday time. Last week we had an appointment an we had blood work and an ultrasound. Both confirmed that we had ovulated and returning to normal since the Depot Lupron. We caught my body after ovulating, so we were too late to try the Clomid prescription just filled, or an IUI. We assume next month we will be on a regular routine and able to have an IUI about this time. We are by no means in a desperate rush of any sorts. We are thrilled and honored that the Lord is blessing us with out son from Ethiopia and we are at peace with whatever biological children he provides or does not provide our family. We are called to adopt our son from the Lord himself, just as we were called by name to be adopted into His family through Christ!!!
We have a doc appt. on Tuesday and will update soon.
On another note....if you have time to see THE BLINDSIDE...please do so! We know the movie is a blockbuster for its "feel good" qualities, but had a whole other effect on our family. Granted our son will be an infant when he is adopted but we will still face many of the challenges the family in the movie did if not greater. We have already faced question and concerns of many loved ones. Many of which revolve around our son being of a different race. In the movie there is a scene where friends ask racial questions and degrading concerns around a lunch table. The mother responds honorably with dignity exclaiming her son has blessed their family. The audience was silent, yet we couldn't breath we were so choked up. Our case manager Lisa has prepared us for moments like these when we have racial remarks tossed our direction, asking if we are his babysitter, why we do not have biological kids, dirty looks, rude questions, and pure ignorance, some of which we have faced before he is born, but seeing it on a small scale on a theater screen hit home.
P.S. We bought a 2010 "Mom Mobile" for me the haul Ma-Mush around yesterday!!!!
Background
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
November 18th, 2009
Howdy Y'all!
We must admit we are crazy parents to-be when the focus of our conversations, plans and life are already on our little man. We even wished for Santa to bring baby gifts this year! On another note....we had a doctors appointment with Dr. Gelety today. Little miss Marta discussed "So You Think You Can Dance" and the best way to bake a turkey before even getting to the reason we were there. We finished our DepotLupron injections and this appointment was for an ultrasound and blood work to decide the next step. We have invested our lives, heart, soul and prayers into our little Ethiopian man, and to be honest have thought little to nothing about conceiving. So they did the US to find out about the size of the cyst found last time and to their surprise they think that we are ovulating. They asked what are plans were, basically hinting at the time could be now, and we needed to act fast. I looked at Ty, and he gave me this glare of "do not dare say we don't really care about getting pregnant, since we already have a little man on the way". We have not shared the info with the doctor's office yet, and temporarily planned not to. Lying on the table I couldn't even put together a sentence and Tyler quickly answered, "We were planning on trying IUIs". Granted we didn't think the "trying" would start for another few months to get back off the injections, but as soon as possible my body kicked back into gear. I guess my internal gears work as quickly as my mind!!! Marta left to tell Dr. G what she found, and 2 minutes later they pop back in with Rx in hand for Clomid. They took my blood again as usual and will call with the results tomorrow. If things seem like they predicted I start Clomid tomorrow and we have an IUI on Tuesday!!! Wow!!! We thought we were going in for a check up....We look forward to what our God has in store!
p.s. We have had a request for info on the Ethiopian well we have committed funds and prayer to. Our sons "family" will benefit from the gift of fresh water and we believe there couldn't be a greater Christmas gift. The following link explains what is being done by our agency and the gift of life being provided in Ethiopia if you are interested.
http://liaint.org/nazarethwaterwell/
We must admit we are crazy parents to-be when the focus of our conversations, plans and life are already on our little man. We even wished for Santa to bring baby gifts this year! On another note....we had a doctors appointment with Dr. Gelety today. Little miss Marta discussed "So You Think You Can Dance" and the best way to bake a turkey before even getting to the reason we were there. We finished our DepotLupron injections and this appointment was for an ultrasound and blood work to decide the next step. We have invested our lives, heart, soul and prayers into our little Ethiopian man, and to be honest have thought little to nothing about conceiving. So they did the US to find out about the size of the cyst found last time and to their surprise they think that we are ovulating. They asked what are plans were, basically hinting at the time could be now, and we needed to act fast. I looked at Ty, and he gave me this glare of "do not dare say we don't really care about getting pregnant, since we already have a little man on the way". We have not shared the info with the doctor's office yet, and temporarily planned not to. Lying on the table I couldn't even put together a sentence and Tyler quickly answered, "We were planning on trying IUIs". Granted we didn't think the "trying" would start for another few months to get back off the injections, but as soon as possible my body kicked back into gear. I guess my internal gears work as quickly as my mind!!! Marta left to tell Dr. G what she found, and 2 minutes later they pop back in with Rx in hand for Clomid. They took my blood again as usual and will call with the results tomorrow. If things seem like they predicted I start Clomid tomorrow and we have an IUI on Tuesday!!! Wow!!! We thought we were going in for a check up....We look forward to what our God has in store!
p.s. We have had a request for info on the Ethiopian well we have committed funds and prayer to. Our sons "family" will benefit from the gift of fresh water and we believe there couldn't be a greater Christmas gift. The following link explains what is being done by our agency and the gift of life being provided in Ethiopia if you are interested.
http://liaint.org/nazarethwaterwell/
Thursday, November 12, 2009
November 12th, 2009
Howdy!
We have enjoyed celebrating our future family with so many of you lately. We are so giddy to share our story, progress and hopes along the way. We are in the long wait. Heartbreaking wait, to tell the truth! Our amazing case manager Lisa is organizing a mission to build a fresh water well in Ethiopia. How exciting! We imagine our little Ma-Mush's family members being blessed with water and that puts a smile in our heart! Therefore, we have opted for a chunk of our "Christmas" to be pledged toward the gift of water. What silly gifts could we ask for or give here in America that could every compare to fresh water? We continue to be blessed with our little man's life, even though his life with us is still months away! Love you guys!
We have enjoyed celebrating our future family with so many of you lately. We are so giddy to share our story, progress and hopes along the way. We are in the long wait. Heartbreaking wait, to tell the truth! Our amazing case manager Lisa is organizing a mission to build a fresh water well in Ethiopia. How exciting! We imagine our little Ma-Mush's family members being blessed with water and that puts a smile in our heart! Therefore, we have opted for a chunk of our "Christmas" to be pledged toward the gift of water. What silly gifts could we ask for or give here in America that could every compare to fresh water? We continue to be blessed with our little man's life, even though his life with us is still months away! Love you guys!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
November 3rd, 2009
Howdy!
We are having some sort of reaction from the DepotLupron injections and the doc wants to see us ASAP, which happens to be tomorrow. We will keep everyone updated on what the ultrasound finds tomorrow.
We have also noticed how life changes so dramatically simply preparing for our son. We prioritize him in all decisions we make and it is such a great feeling to plan for his life and prepare to raise him as a disciple of our great God. More than anything we long to teach him of our great Lord and make our lives a true witness toward his faith. Speaking of, we watched several friends baptize their own middle school age children at the baptism event at church on Sunday! We both were thrilled for them and teary eyed thinking that would be the most joyous event, to be part of our sons journey and commitment to Christ. We are simply breathless typing the possibility!!!
We look forward to our little Ma-mush meeting each of you!
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