Joe Grows a Family

Geez.  When it rains, it pours, as they like to say.  Life is really giving it to me lately, in my personal life and in this surrogacy journey.  Shall I begin? I won't really get into the first "setback" since it deals with the kids and I try to stay away from that part of my life on this here blog...Even though I totally could be writing a blog about that adventure.  I actually wish I would've started writing about the experiences of our "instant family" throughout the last five years...It'd be fascinating, even to me.  But somehow I feel like that'd be a betrayal of the kids' trust and their parents'.  All I will say is that something heartbreaking happened, a mistake made, and it was frustrating and complicated.  I'm really terrible with emotions and psychology and stuff so dealing with the kids in those moments is always a tremendous challenge for me.  Dealing with my own emotions, the ones I do have, is a tremendous challenge...

Alright, people. Here we go!  Update on this whole gay-dad-baby-making thing: -Our egg donor was flown from California to Madison a couple weeks ago.  She was here for like two days and from what we've heard everything went great.  This initial screening was approved by Wisconsin Fertility Institute.  She will next need to be psychologically evaluated.  Then, we have to figure out and finalize the legal stuff.  Finally, they will fly her out to Madison again to officially begin the cycle of donating her eggs and creating embryos.  We're hoping this all happens before the end of the summer. -As always, the bills are piling up.  I mean, they aren't really "bills" since we have to pay them right away in order to move onto the next step.  It's more like...Well, money spent.  But I promised myself I wouldn't dwell on that in this blog post.  Y'all are probably getting annoyed with me complaining about that.  In fact, I shoul...