with this darling little face that I can smoosh and kiss and grab whenever the feeling takes hold of me. We had some friends over for dinner last night that have been struggling with conceiving and I was reminded, in talking with B, of just how blessed I am to be healthy and able to conceive without any "extras". Granted, she has a lot of other factors affecting her fertility, a plethora of medications and diabetes to name a few, but I still feel so blessed to have my child. My heart aches for them when she says that it has gotten to the point where she just expects her period at the end of every month rather than set herself up for being disappointed when it appears. If anyone deserves motherhood it is this woman! She is fabulous with children, has worked with them all her life and they are trying so hard. Then, to add injury to insult, she works in a high school where there are a ton of teenage girls getting pregnant by accident and she has to see this every day! There was some bright spots in our conversation, B said they are not putting a lot of pressure on themselves anymore and if it comes down to her health she'll just love on other people's kids. Plus she has been able to be a fabulous aunt to her own nieces and nephews and her husband and her can take last-minute camping trips, etc. I may miss some of those things but I am so glad to have Kora in our lives and I hope that B and L will one day be able to experience all the joy and pain that parenthood entails for themselves.
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