Musings of a Brave China Doll

Posts from ‘December, 2007’

Juno

* Warning: Minor movie spoilers
We went to see the movie, “Juno” the other day. It was really good. It is the story of a teenage girl who gets pregnant and does the heroic thing of placing her baby for adoption. Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman play the adoptive parents. I found myself relating to Jennifer [...]

Merry Christmas

Even though it’s been the toughest year of my life, I rejoice in the birth of Jesus and that He is still the same…yesterday, today and forever.

You Are Still the Same — The Clark Brothers

It’s a crazy world we live in
There’s a lot of sadness, lot of hurting too
But you are still the same [...]

No Stranger

It’s cycle day 12 today. I know…how exciting! Not really. I have been enjoying my time in lala-I-don’t-care-about-fertility-I’m-taking-a-break-land.
I went in to get the cyst checked on mid-cycle instead of at the beginning of the cycle to see if I happened to be developing a follicle too with the glucophage. You know, kill two birds [...]

Celebrate

“The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.”
I’ve always loved this quote by C. S. Lewis. I used to think of it in a backward, past tense, but it recently hit me that this can be thought of in a future tense too. The pain that I am experiencing now will [...]

One Nice Feeling

We are back from our vacation to Disney World. We had a wonderful time. We also visited my sister, brother-in-law and nephews. It was a joy spending time with them. There is nothing quite like the feeling of having a just bathed, newborn baby swaddled on your chest while rocking him to sleep, or hearing [...]