Motherhood has always come easily to me. Not the parenting part - that has it's own set of problems but actually having children is something that I have really only had to struggle with a couple of times. Yet is was something I grew up thinking wouldn't come easily to me. Since I have a family history of infertility I just figured that since my earliest dream had been to be a mother then fate would make it hard for me to have kids. I know that sounds pessimistic but that is just what I thought. So when that didn't happen it was a shock and a blessing. I thought since I thought I would have problems then I could relate to others who struggled with the issue. After my miscarriage this summer I realized that I can't relate. I can only imagine the pain involved with infertility. Yet so many people have that challenge. It is amazing to me to see how everyone deals with it in a different way. One of my favorite people in the world has struggled with it and overcome it in a perfect way. They had a miracle baby after trying for 8 years. Then just last year after waiting for years another miracle happened - they adopted a baby girl. I can't begin to describe the feelings that brought to me and those feelings don't in any way even equal a fraction of what this family has felt. Babies are a blessing no matter what direction they take to get to a family whether easily or if they take a different route. This is one of those situations where when I see her with her baby in her arms the world just seems to fit better than it did before.
Everything about the shower was pink and perfect - especially Amelie
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