We're on Our Way!

Goodness! It's been nearly a month since I last posted anything. So here it goes!

Dad Smith is now home from Metro Rehab! He has been home for almost 2 weeks and is doing therapy at Northern Physical Therapy everday of the week for about 3 hours a day. He's doing amazing and I think within the next couple of months he may be back to full strength and motion. He's getting antsy, but not giving up and continues to be very determined. For that we are very thankful and very encouraged. God has been faithful!

As for our baby story... we had our post-op appt with Dr. Pete last Thursday. Things looked really good and we still feel very hopeful. Dr. Pete prescribed 5 days of Provera to hopefully get my cycle going. Once that happens, we will start on Clomid, a fertility med to get me ovulating. I will take that for days 3-7 of my cycle and that will help us to time things right. Yeah!

We are excited and a bit scared. Especially when we think about the fact that 1 in every 75 women on Clomid have multiple births. Dr. Pete says it's very likely that we could have twins or triplets, and while that would be fun (and a handful), we would be just as satisfied with one.

It is hard to believe that we are finally here. Finally to the point that starting a family actually feels like a reality. It's as if it is in sight, but it still feels like it's just out of reach. Like it's something that we're really close to, but still something that we will always dream of and never have. I guess that's just our own doubts coming in. Our lack of trust and our fear of the unknown. We know that He holds the future. We know that He holds our hands and we know that He holds us. So we press on, praying that we would feel His presence and see His hand to guide us. He has been speaking to me in songs, in chapel messages, in other people. I am so blessed to be able to go through this and see His hand every step of the way. I know it seems like a joke to be blessed with such a frustrating, heartwrenching, journey, but truly our deepest hope, our one desire is that He will be glorified. As I look out over the past year, I realize that things are progressing just right (even though sometimes we want to rush things) and His peace is filling our hearts.

Thank you, Father, for your ever present reminders of your Love, Faithfulness, and Peace! We are forever thankful for this journey and the joy we know will come from it!