JoHempstead

When I told him I wouldn’t be able to have kids and he didn’t take the out I offered him because i wouldn’t be able to fulfill his dream of someday being a father. He told me as long as it was him and i it was enough. Two years of marriage and navigating the wild experience that is… Read More

That getting pregnant and birthing your own child was the only way to become a mom. Thankfully as an adult with infertility I obviously found this to be untrue and I’m happy to say I am loving being a mom to our beautiful foster son, whom we hope to adopt.

“Get pregnant, that’ll fix it” Even if I didn’t have a raging case of infertility, that would still be bullshit cause it is in fact complete BULLSHIT. Getting pregnant, if you’re lucky enough to be able to, does not fix endometriosis, so please stop suggesting this to women, I promise… Read More

I would throw up, pass out, be on my period for weeks at a time, but I was told it was all normal. This went on for ten years. Fast forward, I was on my first date with my now husband and, because I’m an incredibly awkward human, I couldn’t think of anything to talk about except my… Read More

About a month before our wedding my mother in law asked my husband if he still wanted to go through with it.

Having been an EMT/firefighter and done many cpr’s, anytime someone does cpr on tv it’s so so so wrong and it bugs me so much. Would it kill them to give the actors a cpr class, it’s like an hour long.

My dad is a pharmacist and i worked for 7 years as a clerk in his pharmacy. He’s also super into all types of music, ranging from all different genres to different eras, especially eclectic stuff. One time her turned on a song at work and told me it was so sad I was gonna need a Prozac.… Read More

My grandmother on her way to her honeymoon in 1958. She’s still this glamorous today ❤️

When I’m in an endo funk or dealing with intense cramps, focusing on a task like coloring is always such a help, being able to just put my attention on something else distracts from it. And, when I’ve finished, I know I’ve been productive and accomplished something, which always makes… Read More

I hate having my hair up, so I went with a comfortable side sweep of old Hollywood style curls