Education is power.

Okay, so I start blogs and I have every intention of keeping up with them aaaaand then I don't. This last year was an emotional roller coaster and these are a few things that kept me from blogging:

2013
July 28th - my husband's best friend went home to our Lord
July 29th - my husband went into emergency surgery for an incarcerated hernia
August 2nd - we laid our dear friend to rest
August 2nd - positive pregnancy test
August 5th - blood work came back with no pregnancy "we aren't sure why you had a positive pregnancy test"
October 8th - applied to the Creighton Model System (CrMS) practitioner training program
November 17th - accepted to the CrMS program
November 20th - my husband and I started charting the Creighton Model System
November 27th - our 3rd anniversary of

2014
January 3rd - 10th - CrMS Education Program I
January 10th - June 26th - along with managing the school, producing an elementary play, and being a wife, I had to take on 6 clients to start out the first half of the program.
June 27th - July 4th - completed Education Program II and am on my way to recruiting 12 more clients!

(Geez, I just exhausted myself typing this out. Why did I set out to produce an elementary school play???)

So here I am today. A Creighton Model System Practitioner Intern and gearing up for my last year at St. Joseph School. I am praying that Creighton makes it huge in our diocese and that I'm able to help as many couples and He wills it.

This happens to be Natural Family Planning Awareness week and while we aren't actually planning out our family because if anyone knows better, Aaron and I know God laughs when we tell him our plans, we are praying that we have a family and we are working together to get my body to where it needs to be in order to do so. We have been able to do this through the Creighton Model System.

 

When I was first diagnosed with PCOS I was informed that there wasn't a cure. I needed to work on diet and take pills to help  force me to ovulate. Been there, done that, almost 4 years later, still no child. 

While the diet is helpful and necessary for my PCOS, for the first time I have more than just hope. There's a bright light at the end of our tunnel. I'm scheduled for an ovarian wedge resection in September in Houston, TX. This was all because of charting with the Creighton Model System which is the basis for a great medical science called NaProTechnology.

For the first time I know my body. I know what signs I'm looking for. This is important for women. It's true empowerment. 

Educate yourselves ladies. 

Empower yourself. 

Know yourself.

PS: I'm thankful for a dear friend of mine who journals. She suggested that I start a journal and I told her that once upon a time, long long ago, I wrote two blog entries. I decided I'd start this back up so that when we conceive I can look back at this and be thankful for the times when I wasn't so thankful.