Today I am 35.
T gave me an i.Pod Shuf.fle for my birthday this morning. It's green and adorable. It will be great for walking and gardening. As he was registering it for me, it asked the age of the primary user. I am now in the 35-44 age bracket. Great.
It's weird how this day, arbitrarily really, has such weight. It feels momentous, yet it's just another day. But here it is.
The MIL visit is going okay. It's a little difficult to try and grieve this cycle with her around, and I wouldn't mind a little time by myself, but it's not bad. She does have a tendency to babble a lot and say things that no one really cares about and has no response to. But if that's the worst thing my MIL does then I'm lucky.
Today I expressed an interested in working in the garden. I will go and buy some flowers and do that for a while. Then we are going out for barbecue for dinner. Yum!
Tomorrow there is a Mother's Day/Rachel's birthday party at my mom's house. My family birthday party has always been celebrated in conjunction with Mother's Day since they are always so close together. I think we may have skipped last year. It being my 35th and MIL being here, we can't skip. But needless to say I'm not so excited about the Mother's Day part of the party. I hope it's down-played. Everyone at the party knows what T and I are going through.
I am having caffeinated coffee for breakfast this morning. I'm such a rebel!
Thank you for your commiserations. I appreciate that you all are here with us as we grieve.
Life as an adoptive family.
My Story
- Rachel
- 4 miscarriages, 3 failed IVFs with PGD, 2 different sperm donors, 1 diagnosis of balanced translocation. Now we are the proud parents of a boy via domestic infant semi-open adoption. We had a failed match for kid #2 and are now matched again.
7 comments:
Happy birthday my dear. I'm glad that you got such a fab gift. You definitely deserve it and more. Here's hoping that the next year of your life is full of wonderful surprises.
Good luck surviving the party tomorrow. Mother's day is just hard.
Ooh, I was right about it being your birthday. (I just sent you an email wishing you a happy birthday, and hoping I had remembered it correctly.) Sounds like you have a fun day planned. Good luck tomorrow.
It's tough to have your birthday right after the failed cycle. I hope you can relax and enjoy your MIL's visit and the new i.Pod!
Happy Birthday! I hope this is the year all of you wishes come true.
Happy Birthday, Rachel. I hope the party is nice in spite of that other holiday.
Happy Birthday for yesterday Rachel. I turned 35 in Jan so know how you feel. Let hope 35 is a lucky number for us both.
Hope you have a lovely birthday party today and that 'the other day' is not mentioned too much.
Happy Birthday Rachel. I hope that today's party is at least bearable.
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