Giuliana and Bill Update

Ok, if you have followed this blog for any amount of time, you know I'm a pretty big Rancic fan. There's a lot to love about this darling couple, but mostly I just love how unashamed Giuliana has been about opening up to the world about her struggles with infertility, and now sadly, breast cancer. For those of you who don't know, they endured one (maybe two?) miscarriages through In Vitro Fertilization, and then while undergoing more hormone therapy, discovered she had breast cancer. She just recently underwent surgery to remove both breasts along with the cancer; and of course she has handled it with tremendous grace and strength. I wanted to share this article with you in case you were at all like me and interested in hearing about what's going on in their lives. I absolutely love G's response to people questioning her willingness to expose her battles and wondering if she was scared that this would forever define her:

"I'm going to do so many things that it won't define me."


Love that. So weird that I don't even know them, but I hope so badly that they get their baby and happy ending someday.

Happy Wednesday!

xoxo

Life With Twins: A Guest Post

The summer before my junior year of college, I was fortunate enough to get an internship with Brainworks advertising. It was so much fun learning the ins and outs of advertising and a great experience for me. I met several wonderful women during this internship, including Malena Lott. She was such a fun, energetic person to be around and even gave me my first, second, and I believe, last modeling jobs. Ha! She also happens to be a really great author of several books, and just recently re-released one of her books, The Stork Reality. I bought this book forever ago when she first released it, but never read it since, well, I wasn't a mom and didn't know if I would enjoy it; but now I absolutely can't wait to get started on it! I noticed that she also included an infertility story as part of the second edition of this book that I'm particularly excited to read. To go along with her book release, she has been doing a series of motherhood posts on her blog, "The Stork Reality: Secrets from the Underbelly."If you are a mom or mom-to-be, you would certainly enjoy reading the wide variety of posts from all different types of moms. Recently she asked me to do a post for the blog on twins. I was thrilled and honored to be able to write a post reflecting on our life with twins. The post can be found HERE. If you find her page on facebook, you will be able to follow the other motherhood posts (and find info where you can purchase the book if you'd like). As I said before, she is a great author! If you're looking for a quick, fun read, her book Dating Davinci is awesome. I read it in 2 days a few summers ago.

So thank you again, Malena, for the privilege of letting me post on the Stork Reality blog. I hope you all check out one or more of her fabulous books!

xoxo

Fertility Fridays

Are you confused why I am writing a post called "Fertility Fridays" on a Monday night? Me too. You see, after having babies, my brain has no capability of remembering to post a blog I wrote earlier in the week on the day I was supposed to (you wouldn't believe the things I've had to set an alarm for on my phone to remember) Anyways, it's going to be a little goal of mine to do some type of fertility post each Friday (or whatever day of the week I remember to do it. Alliteration is more fun though, right?) This week, I'd like to share a book I came across on Amazon. I'm very tempted to buy it. It chronicles the journey of 18 couples and how they found their happy endings in various ways. This would have been a great read while we experienced our journey. I love that it also looks like there are many different happy endings to infertility struggles (getting pregnant, surrogates, adoption, "taking a break" or just realizing that maybe you're really not ready for a baby). I remember right before we got pregnant feeling a really calm sense of peace about whatever our outcome would be, and knowing that somehow, someway I would be a mommy, but that I was OK with however God chose for that to happen.

In case you're wondering, there are lots of great books on infertility. Including one titled, Dear God, Why Can't I Have a Baby? (made me tear up just hearing this question). I think it's great to have resources in all forms while going through this difficult journey. 

Perhaps one or more of you might find this helpful. :)

xoxo