Songs I Would Have Sung Letters I Would Have Written Dreams I Now Have Realized

Most of us assume that things will go according to our plans. If we put our minds to a purpose and carry out the necessary steps we'll land that job or take that trip - or get pregnant pretty much on our pre-determined schedule.<p> It's a jolt to discover you're the exception to the rule; that the plans you'd made took a different course not at all what you'd expected or wanted. Yet as is so often the case in looking back from the distance of time or place or circumstance something in that change brings a different insight and a new promise...perhaps completely unlike the original blueprint but extraordinary in its own right.<p> This was our journey toward parenthood. However lest you get the mistaken impression that the pitfalls were not devastating or the losses not profound I ask you to walk the miles with us. From there you can draw your own conclusions.<p>Jayne Easley<br>August 2009