The reason I even contemplated closing this blog is because my husband, out of the blue, decided to make me another blog to write about life with Little Bug.

At first I thought it was a good idea. The title of this blog is God’s Faithfulness Through Infertility and the posts should be about infertility.

Now that Little Bug has arrived many of the posts are about her.

I know when I was going through infertility treatments, at times, it was very hard to read blogs where a BFP had been achieved. I do not want to cause anyone pain. I didn’t achieve pregnancy, but I have achieved parenthood and I wondered if I needed to close out this blog since my posts are not longer about infertility.

I think I am leaning towards keeping this blog up and running.

This blog has chronicled my journey over the past two years. I picked the name I did for this blog because even starting out on the journey not knowing where it would take me, I knew that it was a matter of walking through infertility. I knew it was a place I would not be permanently.

God has most certainly shown His faithfulness to us as we walked through infertility and He will continue to show His faithfulness to us as we parent Little Bug and bring her up in the Lord.

I used to keep a handwritten journal. At age 15, I started keeping a journal by writing front and back on the pages of a spiral notebook. When I would fill one up, I would get another. I think I have over 30 spiral notebooks I wrote in over the span of 11 years. I still keep a spiral notebook but I do not write in nearly as frequently as I did before I had this blog.

This blog has become my spiral notebook. The only difference is this blog is open for the world to see.

I love to write. Writing is as essential to me as breathing, which is why I cannot wait to establish some sort of routine around here that will enable to me have time to write again.

In making the decision on whether to close this blog or not, I also realized that even though I am not stuck in the muck of infertility treatments, I am still an infertile and one day there will be another story to record on how God chooses to add another child to this family!

I want this blog to be here to share once again with the world another miracle!

While many of my posts will now most likely be about Little Bug and the joys – and struggles – of parenting her, I will probably be inspired to write about infertility and adoption as well.

So it just feels right to keep this blog going.

And now I need to figure out what I am going to do with this other blog my husband made for me … :)

Time to feed Little Bug!

- Elaine