Getting my blog started!

This is my first post to my Journal. YaY!

Here's the story.... I am happily married to the love of my life...Joseph. We are the proud parents of 5...13 yr old DJ, 10 yr old Dominique, 61/2 year old Janiya, 5 year old Kendyl and 3 1/2 yr old Khyri.

After the birth of Khyri, without any thoughts on the matter, I had my tubes tied. You see, in my mind, 5 was enough. Everyone convinced me that my family should be complete by adding their little comments..." Girl, you're the little old lady who lives in a shoe"..." Is this IT??!?!?" ..."I know this is the last one" need I go on? Plus, withing 3 1/2 yrs, I had given birth to 3 kids, so I was tired so to speak. So I had a tubal ligation....bipolar cauterization to be exact.

Well, it was not long after my tubes were tied that I realized I made a HUGE mistake. I regretted it badly. The regret was starting to turn into depression. I talked to my husband over and over again about either getting a reversal or IVF....he was NOT trying to hear me. So then I turned to God. I BEGGED him to remove this desire from me because without my husbands support, I could not go through with either procedure. God never removed the strong desire for another baby. Ok, so I then asked him if it was in His Will for our lives, to then soften the heart of my husband.

I will never forget the day my life changed. Wednesday 11/5/08, my husband very sweetly said to me Ok baby, we can do it. Let's have another baby. He said much more than that but I was ELATED! SO my search began.

Because I only want to do this once more, I think the surgery isn't the right option for us. I want to take the IVF route. So my search began! I do have an appointment with one clinic on January 20, 2009, but I think I want to also do a consult with a clinic that a friend of mine, who story is a mirror image of mine, went through. She has succesfully completed two round of IVF with them....resulting in a set of twins and a singleton.