MAGICAL MOVES

🌷Two monumental, life changing, unforgettable things happened this week. First, Donald Trump was elected the 47th President of the United States. Regardless of where you stand politically, you likely have a strong reaction to this result. You likely feel that there will be profound changes for our country (good or bad). You feel like our country will start to go in a different direction (good or bad). You probably have a lot of questions regarding the Country’s future and your future.

I have voted in every presidential election I have been qualified to do so, and never I have felt as strongly about an election than I did during this season, and never have I felt that the result would impact me and my family so significantly. This election felt like it mattered so much more. Those feels are directly related to what is on our horizon. A daughter. A growing family. Making the decision of whom to vote for became not just who I wanted to be the president, but whom I thought would help create a better country for our growing family. I voted, not just in my best interest, but the best interest of our family (as I saw it).

I have conservative friends, I have liberal friends, and I have friends throughout that spectrum. I love them all. They have all supported me during the worst years of my life. They have been loving, kind, and nonjudgmental. They kept me afloat when I didn’t know if I would make it. They gave me confidence in myself, and they gave me the strength to continue fighting. Especially with this election, people have become so divisive. When I think about the people in my life that have stood by me, their political leanings NEVER came into play with whether they continued to support me. Because of that, I would never let someone’s political position stand in the way of how I feel about them, nor how I treat them. Politics are not more important than people. My hope for the future is more of us can see this.

Which brings me to the thing that mattered the most this week. I felt our daughter move. A BIG movement! I have never felt a baby move in utero before, and it was the most beautiful thing. She felt like an alien doing a summersault. It was wild. My reaction was so demonstrative, a couple that was also in the OB’s office stopped my husband and asked him if Kimmy happened to be our carrier, as they, TOO, went through a gestational surrogacy journey (and now have a beautiful eight-year-old son.) What a small world. The recognized the bond between the three of us.

I have been waiting two and a half years to feel my baby kick. I never got to feel our son move, and I have been desperate to feel our daughter. Feeling her move, knowing that she kicked her mom (or punched her), feeling this real sign of life, was truly life changing.

Our baby is almost here. Phil and I are so close to parenthood. Regardless of what happened in the election, no candidate could take that away from us. And no election result could steal our joy, or provide the joy, that I felt in the moment I felt my daughter.🌷