Today, I’m lovin’ Willow from Write, Baby, Repeat. She is a thirty-year-old work-at-home writer and editor of books for young readers. She’s married to her college sweetheart (known as Spruce) and she’s a mom through open adoption to their darling boy, Baby Bonsai. After three years of trying to conceive, their boy made them parents–but the trying’s not over yet. She’s been blogging since August ’09. Here’s a bit of her TTC history.
The first thing that is notable about Willow is how beautifully written her posts are. You can tell she has a passion for writing. Her post about her open adoption shows how captivating her writing is and it makes you want to curl up with a decaff herbal tea and stay a while.
I also LOVE how her glee about being a new mom (after going through infertility) practically leaps off the page like in her post: Girl with Stroller. (And for all those going through adoption, you’ll want to read her views on baby wearing too!) But what I love most of all is how she writes about the bond she shares with her son. “We are bonded, we are attached, we are family,” she writes in this post, a post I started to tear up over.
I admire how much Willow has been through, with her miscarriage, her work-at-home job, her son (and the adoption she went through to have him) and trying to conceive another baby that is biologically hers and her husband’s. And I know what it’s like (and how difficult it is) to go through infertility treatments when having a baby in tow. I often wondered what my 15 month old thought of as my husband gave me my shot as I leaned over the kitchen counter, timing it precisely and inconveniently before her bedtime. I know that Willow can relate. And as she writes about giving herself her injections (another reason I admire her), she also writes about doing it in strange places which is something I think many of us can relate to!
Another post I loved was Missed It where she writes about a missed opportunity to reach out to a potential infertile. I think heartache sometimes masks our realities and causes us to make assumptions about people and their (presumably fertile) babies. But Willow (who is on the opposite end) is clearly not wanting to shut anyone out. I think this post can give us all something to think about.
Recently, Willow has been dealing with the breaking down of her body, asking her cousins to be egg donors, and finalizing her adoption (after 6 months of taking care of her son). She has also joined a local mom group and has ideas of becoming president and starting a program about parenting after infertility and adoption which is another reason I love her! Go check her out! You’ll love Write, Baby, Repeat too!
Aww, thank you, Krissi!