First. Blog. Post. Ever!

Im scared and excited all at once! I have put off having a blog for a long long time. It seems everyone who's anyone has one :-P Finally, I bow to peer pressure. I just wasn't convinced I had the time or energy to blog. In hindsight that is really quite a silly excuse. Especially when you consider the many posts I have written on other people's websites lately! Really, if I'm honest, my hesitation at moving into "Bloggerworld" was more to do with my insecurities. Do I really have anything interesting to say on a regular basis? Will I be intelligent enough? What if I look stoopid? Blah blah blah.


So anyway here I am. Ready to blog. I've sucked up my insecurities and I'm just doing it. My loose blog topic is my journey to motherhood for the second time (I say loose as I'm sure I will use creative license to move outside that box on occasion). What makes my story a little different from "the norm" is that we aren't breeders. We don't fall within societies perfect, neat little box that is the nuclear family. My female partner of nearly 1o years and I have had a long, sometimes rough, sometimes easy road to parenthood. Sadly our first daughter's donor will not donate to us again. He has his reasons. We respect them. Sad as it was, albeit for a fleeting moment, to come to the realisation that our children won't share any genetic links.


Even though countless gallons of sperm probably goes wasted every single day, we have had great difficulty finding a man (and his little swimmers) that fit our criteria and our needs (which I will explain in more depth later on). Thankfully in the last couple of months my desperation and sadness has turned to happiness and excitement. We found someone! Yay! Four odd years of searching later....So this blog will be all about detailing our journey to parenthood, my journey as a birth mother for the first time. We already have a 4 year old daughter. She is the light of my life, my partners also. She is an intelligent, thoughtful, creative, beautiful, imaginative and all round delightful young woman. I can only hope that our next babe is just as wonderful and inspiring as she has been to me over the last four years....