My Perfect Breakdown

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If nothing else, the last few days/weeks, have taught me that having a child is an emotional experience.  (As if somehow I wasn’t already aware of this?) For the first time ever we really thought our child was a real possibility.  Then, once again, we thought the future we had been dreaming about was vanishing before our eyes.  And now, we are back to cautious optimism.  (I came to loath the term… Read More

I find myself jumping back and forth between ecstatic and petrified. Between hopeful and scared. I feel almost bipolar in my emotional shifts. The pendulum just keeps swinging from one extreme to another. We’ve had nothing but positive interactions and good news. Yet, I still find myself afraid.  At times, I am literally forcing myself to believe that this could really happen. I realize the fears are all based in our history… Read More