live in it

It's been a challenging few months (few years, actually).  We're struggling to start a family and it's hard to remain grounded and maintain perspective at times.  I've accepted that this process could take another month or another year and a half.  We don't see what is in store ahead for us.  So, we've decided that we still need to find joy in each day.  We still have to have fun, rejoice together, laugh together, make the most of each and every day.  I don't want to look back on my twenties and feel sadness or regret that we let the process of trying to conceive and struggling with infertility steal the joy from some of the best years of our lives.  Life is too short for that silliness.  Sure, I'm struggling.  Sure, we have our down days.  But at the end of the day, God is too good.  Life is too short.  Our family and friends are too precious to us.  We are too blessed to let our lives pass us by.  So we choose to live in it.  I hope you do the same.  Even when it's hard. 

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package, I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”

                                                                                                                                                          

Quote courtesy of one of my favorite authors, Joan Didion... Quote found on one of my favorite blogs, Marvelous Kiddo