good, good news

women in rock, canon digital rebel xt

My husband and I were walking on the beach one early evening and he looked up to the cliff on our left and asked..."do you see two women carved into the rock?"

It took me a moment and then I saw them. Two women, huddled close, standing firm, side by side, solid as rock.

This is what Andrea has been to me on this journey of trying to conceive. I am so grateful for all the ways she has loved me through this and has allowed me to love her through it. The long heart soaked emails, the teary phone calls ending in laughter, the sweet cards in the mail. I cannot imagine this journey without her in it.

She announced on her blog today that she is three months pregnant. I couldn't be happier for her! Can we all shout a collective "weeeee!". I feel so closely connected to her experience, that I feel as though it is happening to me.

In all honesty, it has been difficult to be around, walk by, sit with, hang out with pregnant women. As much as I long for what they have and relish in the miracle and beauty of it all...it is a bit of a reminder that it is not me yet. I think that feeling is natural, albeit difficult to admit to myself and to others.

But with Andrea it is different. I feel so excited that I want to go rub her belly and dance with her in a sister circle. It feels so refreshing to feel this...since we both wondered how we would feel when one of us became pregnant first. I am relieved.

Our journey still continues. And for me...it is now filled with more hope seeing her beautiful picture of her bebe.

So, go give her some sweet, sweet lovins and kiss her pumpkin on the screen. They deserve every morsel!

Now when I look at those women in the rock, I see two pregnant women, side by side, embracing their bellies.