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.

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.

Jayne Easley
August 2009