Candace-Hope was when after countless years of failure to conceive you still pick yourself up off the cold floor to keep trying another day. Hope is when someone who has lost their child through miscarriage can find the strength to heal and face tomorrow. Hope is what RESOLVE gives to those who desperately need it in their journeys to parenthood. And HOPE is what our readers and blogging community have given us since we started our blog in 2012.
In times when hope was all but lost we would dredge up something positive. We would find the humor in something that is hard to laugh it, like beating the crap out of a uterus piñata filled will red candies for example. We wanted others to find hope in the darkest of places so that they would not ever have to feel alone in their journey. This is why we started our blog. We wanted others to find it when it was missing. To find a way to laugh when all of the humor was gone. To know that even though your struggle is debilitating at times, that you are not alone in your feelings. Even those feelings you may not be proud of. Our readers, electronic besties if you will, humble us and continue to do so. YOU, reading this post right now allowed us to share or over-share in many cases our struggles and feelings on the disease of infertility.
We were unbelievably surprised when we found out because of you, our electronic besties, we are the recipients of the 2014 RESOLVE’S Hope Award for Best Blog!
WHAAAAAAAA? We stand dwarfed by giants who write for advocacy and support of others, those who bravely share their journeys. We were just one of many bloggers that document their regular rendezvous with Mr. Ultrasound wand and the common goal to spread awareness like a boss. Chris and I are humbled to be amongst them, more so to be the ones voted by the community to win the award. If you have a moment please check out the other 4 completely remarkable nominees:
Chris-How great would it be if this was the last time anyone ever won the Hope award? Don’t misunderstand me, I don’t want us to be the last winners and we certainly are not the most deserving of the award. But wouldn’t it be great if there was no reason to give out an award next year? I guess that is kind of the goal of bringing awareness to infertility, right? If there is more attention to issues with fertility and policy and other obstacles in the adoption process, then maybe some of these things can be remedied. Of course this won’t happen over the course of one year, but it is nice to dream right.
Candace and I are thrilled to be selected for the 2014 Hope award. We started writing the blog to get our story out and pass on the things that we wished we knew to the broader IF community. It is an absolute honor to be selected for this and we are even more convinced that the more engaged that the IF community is, the greater chance there is of making progress to overturn infertility.
OK last thing. We are not the only award winners for this years Night of Hope! If you have a chance, check out the RESOLVE link here and learn about the other astounding advocates in the community that are making an every day difference in the lives of those who suffer with infertility.
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Congratulations to you both. I think your blog lends an amazing voice of HOPE to those who cannot tell their own IF stories yet.
xoxoLynn
Thanks Lynn and thank you for your support!
Congrats. I have really enjoyed reading about your journey.
Thank you for reading and supporting us along the way!
You are so right about wishing that this year could be the last year of the HOPE awards. Congrats to both of you. You all have done so much and put so much of your lives out there in order to bring more awareness about the disease of infertility! I had been thinking about going public on my own blog and putting my full name on it, and once I came across your blog and MTV special I knew had to do it. So thanks for being an inspiration to me and countless others!