Along the way

When our journey started, I thought to my self who on earth will ever understand all this?   As I / we are pretty independent people.  We don't involve our parents in every life decision.   My mom and I are as close as we can be, but this was just one situation and decision I wasn't and still am not ready to share with her or the MIL.  We will share with them when the time is right.  We know that they will give us 100% support, but this is our journey.  We really have some of the best parents you could ask for!  They are all fantastic people.  (After all there are some other adoptions that have taken place through out my family)

Well, being a police wife, I turned to the one place I know I belong, my other police wives!!!  These women are amazing!  There are so many of us, that someone is always in or has been in your situation.  

At the beginning of our TTC journey, I posted and got several responses and good lucks and etc., but one person and I really "clicked!"  Shannon, I love you, you are one of the strongest women I have ever met, well sort of met, in my life! 

Granted, Shannon and I have never really met, she is in TX and I am in MO, but we are both on the same journey.  Our lives lead similar direction and well our husbands, they are both the most supportive husbands I've ever known.  If you want to read about another journey, check out her blog, http://thegoodthebadandthemarried.blogspot.com/ !

She is the one person who really gets what is going on.  She understands what it's like to be smacked into the reality of being a LEO wife, she understands how great it is when AF shows her nasty face with out meds and she understands how frustrating a BFN is month after month.   She's also the one who inspired me to blog about our journey.  She started her's long ago and knows a lot more about this blogging stuff than I do, I'm a beginner, what can I say!  LOL!!! 

I've also talked to several other amazing women who have started the same journey and adopted along the way.  It's really nice to ask questions and get REAL answers, not just something you read on Google.   The internet is full of nasty rumors and sad endings.  These ladies give real positive stories.  Some are still on their journey waiting for their own LO or waiting on their adoption agency to call, but following their story proves that these stories really do have happy endings.  

This is our fairly tale ladies!  It starts out great, through the middle we have ups, downs, thunderstorms and some really big curves along the way, but in the end there is a really bright ray of sunshine with a huge rainbow!