Deciding to become parents

Mike and I always wanted kids, I desperately wanted to be a mother, my dream was so be able to stay at home and take care of all my children (I wanted 3 or 4, Mike agreed to 3), but due to money there was no way this dream could come true for me. I starting saving my money so I could at least have a good amount of time off when it came time to us having a family.

While we were away for work in January 2009, we decided that we were ready and we wanted to start our family, and what do you know, a month later we found out we were expecting our first child.

We were so excited and idealistic, not knowing all the issues we were going to go thru for the next 12+ months.

I was going to be that typical cliche mum, baking cookies, doing crafts, mending clothes, and Mike was excited about teaching his children how to play video-games. I thought this was the role I was born to do, there was nothing better! I would be so happy to give up work and be home with my baby. But I was so incredibly wrong. Our journey wasn't easy, and its still not. But hopefully one day, we will get to experience everything we had originally dreamed about.