blogoversary & a giveaway!

Two years ago, I started my blog with this post and reading that again now is bittersweet. I thought our biggest problem was PCOS and my liver. I said that I was hopeful because I couldn't contemplate anything beyond what we were dealing with, I just couldn't fathom there might be something bigger than PCOS. Being in my shoes now, post azoo diagnosis and post all the hell of last year, I am such a different person but I am still hopeful. I now know more then I ever dreamed of knowing about sperm and biopsies and IVF and chromosomal defects and heartache and tears and pain. But I think we will conquer this and I still buy cute baby onesies to be used in the future. I still cling to hope despite it all.

So, in honor of this 2nd blogoversary, I am having a giveaway! To thank all of you for your support and kind words because I can't explain enough just how incredible all of you are! I am giving away a little piece of hope and a cute coffee mug with a quote from the ever awesome Alice in Wonderland.

 

To enter, you must be a follower of my kickass blog and leave one comment by October 2nd, when I will close the contest and announce a winner. I will use the lovely assistance of random.org to choose said winner. Good luck, everyone!!

We have a winner!!

A huge thank you to everyone that entered my very first giveaway! The winner, according the random,org, is commenter number 6 and that would be April over at CD 1 again.... Congrats, April!! woohoo! Just send me an email with all your info and which bracelet you like so I can get it to you. My email is HopeisOursblog@gmail.com

and I realize that picture is tiny and very hard to read but I can't seem to make it right so please accept my apologies. I'm already planning my next giveaway in September to celebrate my blogoversary!

My 1st Giveaway!

In honor of my 100th post, I thought it would be fun to have a giveaway, this is my first and I am super excited about it! (Although my 100th post has come and gone, I am still calling this giveaway in it's honor.) I love blogs and the blogging community has been simply wonderful. The support I have received from everyone has been just truly heartwarming. I remember when there was not a single person following my blog and to have 48 today makes me feel like my blog is doing what I had hoped it would. That is why I am thrilled to have a giveaway!

First, I wanted to give you something pretty and so I teamed up with my good friend over at the Beadlady6 so you could pick something to decorate yourself with! (I own the red bracelet and LOVE it, it just adds such a pop of color when I wear it)

But, I also wanted to give you something representative of me and this blog, so I am also including this:

It's something to help you remember that above all, hope is one of the greatest strengths to have in face of adversity. Hope is a good thing and although I sometimes really struggle with remembering that, it always manages to show up and remind me that having hope in the midst of infertility is the best way to win this war. When I come out on the other side, I will look back, smile and know that hope kept me going, the hope of a child, my child. I hope the same for all of you.

To enter, please leave one comment and you must also be a follower of this blog. I will use random.org to select the winner, multiple replies will be discarded. I will close the contest on August 15th at midnight and announce the winner the next day, August 16.

Good luck!!