Thanksgiving

This year we won't be having a big, traditional Thanksgiving meal. At first I was a little bummed because we LOVE Thanksgiving. But, what is replacing our feast this year is much more important and exciting, it's also the #1 item on our "Thankful List". In just a couple of hours we have our first official IVF appointment. It's just the orientation meeting but still, we will learn about the procedure, the drugs I'll have to take, go over the dozens of forms we had to sign and get our official plan of action. It's been a really long road to get here (9 months and countless tests, dr. appointments, consultations and weeks of nervous waiting for funding approval) but it's is oh so fitting that it falls on today because honestly, we are truly grateful for this opportunity. There are a lot of things that are hard about living in a foreign country and being so far away from family and familiar things but we consider it a massive blessing as well. We have so much to be thankful for and today we are most thankful that we are tax paying ex-pats who qualify for treatments from the NHS. My productivity levels this week have been terrible because today's meeting is pretty much all I can think about. Just think, maybe next year our #1 thankful item will be a sweet little baby. Or 2.