moving forward

Ok, it is Thursday and tomorrow is our deadline from the lawyer to receive the draft of our surrogate contracts. This is a big deal!! I am so excited to get the formal contract and make things legally official! This is just crazy to me...on Monday Joy goes to her Dr's appt and will get her check-up and the final ok. She will also get her Rx for clomid and the trigger shot. Clomid starts on day 3 of her cycle which could begin as early as Tuesday or Wednesday! 2 weeks from IUI and 4 weeks from HPT (home pregnancy test for those that don't understand my acronyms lol) After all the discussion, the months of "negotiations" and talks with Joy and Layla about if this was the right thing to do...and the time is finally here. We are moving forward with surrogacy and our journey to make a baby. This journey has now been...maybe a year long...I can't quite remember because time seems to just fly by. Our journey is like so many others, and yet it is so unique to us at the same time. None of us know what is going to happen, how long this will take, or even how any of us will feel during and after the journey. All I know is that there is more love going into making this child than most children will experience in a lifetime. There are technically at least 5 people involved in making this baby. Shorty, me, Joy, Layla and our sperm donor. And if you want to count the attorney, the dr...it not only takes a village to raise a child, but in our case it takes a village just to make one. Fingers crossed for us, send us baby vibes over the next month, and keep us in your thoughts as this journey gets officially underway!