My Path to Mommyhood

Follow me as I move beyond parenthood into childfree infertility resolution -- things may not have worked out how we'd hoped, but "success" is redefine-able!

Thursday, May 21, 2020

My Heart, It Hurts

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In all this fervor of distance learning and 1:1 Google Meets with students, sometimes all a student wants to do is talk. Which is arguably a...

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Monday, May 18, 2020

If We Couldn't Adopt

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I have a love/hate relationship with People Magazine. I love it for the fluff and the recommendations for what to read and watch, for the re...

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Saturday, May 9, 2020

Soothing the Mother's Day Ache

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Early May used to be a one-two punch -- first, my birthday, then Mother's Day. This year I realized that a gift of resolution is recla...

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Monday, May 4, 2020

#Microblog Mondays: That Was 43

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Tomorrow, I turn 44. Today, I am still 43 (for 45 more minutes anyway). Last year, when I started being 43, I was recovering from my hyste...

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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Quarantine Stress Is Exhausting

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I missed Microblog Mondays. I am having a really difficult time concentrating lately, and when the day is over for school, I am just a pile ...

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Monday, April 13, 2020

Having a Moment

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I had a moment yesterday. As in, all day I was cranky, and sad, and teary. It didn't help that we didn't do our normal hide-the-Ea...

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Monday, April 6, 2020

Pandemic Odds and Ends

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I still can't get over the fact that I'm writing "pandemic" unironically. Yesterday my neighborhood (which is usually p...

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Jess: Welcome! I'm a special education teacher, a writer, a reader, a gardener, a wife -- and living a beautiful life after loss. We resolved without parenting after nearly 8 years of trying to build our family through IVF, donor gametes, and domestic infant adoption. After 10+ years blogging as "My Path to Mommyhood," shifting to "Finding a Different Path" explores and celebrates our authentic reality -- rebuilding our life and living, happily, without the children we wanted. Thank you for joining me!

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