Markers

Not sure where this idea came from.   We started it in 2006 and I'd yet to find the glories of Pinterest so I know it wasn't there... but each New Year's Eve, C and I started a tradition of making fettuccine alfredo and taking 4-5 rocks and writing down big happenings we'd want to remember for that year. 

You can see from the pic above that in 2012 we put down our twin experience and I believe we only have one other rock that represents our hope for children and that was this one... 

It was 2006, and I'd just had my second surgery Dec. 23rd.    To back track...after being married for 6 yrs and trying to conceive for the last year and half, we were pretty sure something wasn't right.  I saw my ob and she guessed I had endometriosis and we did a laparoscopy in Oct of '06.  I remember waking up from the anesthesia and having her at my side... she had tears and told me she'd just gone in and right back out b/c there was nothing she could do to fix the problem.  My fallopian tubes were extra long and actually wrapped around my ovaries and were adhered to the uterus.  This was the definite reason we weren't getting pregnant.  She said she'd never seen this before but was sending me to a specialist to get his opinion on our options.

That specialist found it to be no big deal and said he could do another laparoscopy to go in and unadhere them.  I woke up from that surgery with my husband by my side and he'd given me a little figurine from the gift shop that had a boy holding a balloon that had the word "hope" on it.  

That is what prompted the above rock... that NYE of '06 we borrowed that "hope balloon" idea and included the initials of the boy/girl names we currently loved, Micah Benjamin and Gabbi Sue and we made one of our first markers of many.   Lord willing, this NYE we will be eating fettuccine and creating a marker depicting a year of being pregnant with our long awaited hope!