Going "Public"...

Well, you see, a blog is already public. I'm aware of that. But, this time I'm posting it to Amanda's Facebook page.

First, I must mention that I hate Facebook. I've always said I hated Facebook. It's the annoying things, the religious things, the political things, the "I'm now sad because I wish I was there/with that person/doing that thing", the time it takes up in life. But, I must also mention, embarrassingly, that I'm on Amanda's Facebook page daily. Multiple times a day. It's a weakness. And I hate it! But I'm not giving in so much as to get my own page.

Second, sometimes it's easier to write when I'm thinking about an audience. My past posts may have a little different voice as I wasn't writing to anyone exactly. You are welcome to read my past posts, they may just be different than this one (maybe that's all in my head too!)

I've been going back and forth trying to decide how open I wanted to be with all of this baby making stuff. I just didn't know. I didn't know how many people wanted to hear about my periods, about my cycles, about my hormones, my hysterosalpingogram (HSG), my emotions, my... You get the point. But then I realized that there could be someone else out there feeling alone, feeling stuck, feeling unsure, and that maybe my words would speak to them.
Also, I can't reach out for support from those I love if nobody knows what's going on.

So here I am. Of course my wife is involved just as much as I am, but I often say "I". So here I may leave it all. It might be really personal, it might be a little graphic, it might be plain or silly. Please, comment as you wish, ask questions that may come up, but please, please be kind.

While we we're waiting we admitted our weakness to Facebook, we decided that it was ok to bare it all to our friends and family, and we went "public".