Where do I begin....So much has already happened.

Tonight at the spur of the moment I decided to start a blog of this journey my husband and I are about to begin. Actually, we have been on this so called journey to parenthood for many years now, but have not been very vocal about it. I decided I want to document this experience so I can go back years from now and cherish the moments. Also to help others that may go through this process, considering that we are successful with our own. 

Will and I have been married for 7 and 1/2 years now. I have always wanted to be a mother ever since I can remember. After Will and I had been dating for a while, the conversation of marriage and kids came up. In the beginning Will did not care either way about starting a family. He basically said, if I want kids, then he is cool with it, but if I didn't then that would be fine too. So we decided to wait a couple of years after we were married then we would start to try to have a baby. I just knew that the "trying" would be an easy process for us. Boy was I wrong.

To make the long story short, I discovered in our journey to become parents, I was diagnosed with stage IV Endometriosis. This diagnosis pretty much means that my chances of conceiving a child on my own is less than 5%.  I could have written an entire blog about our past four years of trying to have a biological child of our own but it was too depressing to have to deal with day by day, let alone write about it. After multiple IUI's, 2.5 IVF's, 2 surgeries, a gazillion needles being stuck in every part of my body, many ultrasounds, thousands of dollars, and much heartache we have decided on adoption.

I was so against adoption in the beginning because I wanted my own biological child, but it was like out of the blue one day something came to me, I truly believe it was a calling from God. I had this feeling inside or this instinct telling me to adopt, but not from the U.S., from Haiti. I can't explain what or why this thought came to me, but I had a good feeling about it. My husband, not so much, lol. That took a little more convincing on my part. So a year and a half later we have decided to start our research on adoption agencies and rescue mission groups. We will officially start the process in July (2013) once we save up all of our money. 

What the future holds will be the story of this blog.