Up until our late 20's Chris and I were "ordinary" young adults with little responsibility to worry about. We worked hard, played hard and didn't envisage an end to those young carefree single days.
Then I moved to the USA, we met and it all changed.....
Since then not much about us has felt "ordinary".
* I'm British and Chris is American
* We wanted children but couldn't conceive any
* We adopted a set of twins from Russia
* We are young and healthy but six perfectly good IVF cycles with a top class doctor haven't worked for us
* now we are moving onto surrogacy!
All I've ever wanted is to be ordinary, and I've finally realised, there is more than one type of ordinary.
Some people choose to expand their family and they do it without outside help, others don't get that choice. For some, outside help is a necessity, there is no other option. We are those people, the sooner we accepted that fact the simpler the journey to parenthood was for us.
As it turns out, outside help can come in many different ways!
When we were adopting from Russia I wrote a diary of our journey so our children would have the opportunity to read it when they are older and know just how much we wanted them.
I am writing this blog for the same reason, however I am not planning on making the blog public until we are much further along this journey, for now, these will just be my personal thoughts.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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