It has been a while

So it has been 6 months since my last post and while a lot has happened, unfortunately nothing has happened in the way of surrogacy since last month and that was bittersweet. To start where I left off... I was very sad to say goodbye to the other couple and they were understandably hurt by my decision. But I was really excited about the possibility of helping my brother and sister in law to have their baby. Soon after making our decision my husband got a job offer. This was really exciting for us because we would be moving to Virginia, which only puts us 3 hours from my family and 6 hours to his parents which is so much closer than Florida! (looking back on this now, it was kind of a blessing in disguise that I didn't move forward with the other parents because there is usually a clause in the contracts that says you can't move out of state and this would have been detrimental to my family) So he took the job and we began the process of moving. Since moving is a really stressful experience and because there would be a lapse in insurance till he was at the new job for a full month, my SIL decided to postpone starting till we were established in VA. I was fine with this, it made sense so we waited. In the meantime something wonderful happened. After trying for so long they got pregnant!!! We were overjoyed for them! I talked to my SIL and they still have frozen embryos so they still wanted to go ahead with the surrogacy. That was great with me but I sent her a letter kind of letting her "off the hook". I explained that I knew being pregnant was stressful so if they wanted to concentrate on just one baby that was completely understandable. I didn't want her to feel like she had to move forward or feel guilty if she decided to wait. But she wanted to move forward anyway just wait till closer to when the baby is due in September. So I was ok with that too so still waiting. Well, life seems to always laugh when you make plans and shortly after talking to her about starting in August her husband got a job offer, in Seattle. I think this was just one too many things to deal with, which is also understandable, and she decided to postpone the surrogacy again. I completely understand her position, that is a lot of stress, being now 25 weeks pregnant and moving across the country, buying a house. Thats is a lot for anyone to deal with to try to throw in surrogacy on top of that it too much. So it is still my sincere hope that our timelines match up next time so that I can help with a sibling project with them because I know they will be great parents and it would be a really great experience to help to bring my niece or nephew into the world but I just can't wait any longer to start my own journey. That brings us up to the beginning of last month. I have more to tell and it is all very exciting but I will save that for my next post.