Spring has sprung here in New England… finally. This has definitely felt like the longest winter since we first moved up here almost seven years ago. I’ve been house-bound more than I would have liked to, between freezing cold despite sunny days and me and my son being held captive by a set of stomach viruses that put me in the hospital for several hours on Tuesday. It’s been a week, for sure.
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This time of year always has me itching to clean. I love a good purge. It’s one of my favorite things about moving: getting rid of the junk you’ve accumulated over the years. When I spring clean, I clean deep. I’m not just talking about the floors and the windows and the closets. I’m talking about file directories, my laptop desktop, deleting apps on my phone: the works.
And then I clean deeper.
What’s working in my life? What’s not? If I had the perfect day or a day completely to myself to do whatever I wanted, what would I do? What do I need to eliminate or add in my life to more closely align with that day?
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What do you collect?
I collect tacky magnets from new places I’ve visited. I collect Judaica. I collect antique books.
And this month, I’m collecting pins for Pinterest. More specifically, I’m collecting pins for PINfertility Awareness, in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week later this month. I’m Guest Pinning all month for WEGO Health and I want to spread the message of infertility awareness all month long on Pinterest!
Help me collect the best of infertility awareness all month long on Pinterest. Have pin-worthy content? Leave a link here in the comments, at my Facebook page, or @ me on Twitter!
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As you shake out your rugs, mop the floors and open up the windows to air out the house finally – as you start your own spring cleaning efforts, consider for a moment…
What are you willing to let go of on your infertility journey right now?
What can you shake out, mop up, dust off? What could use some airing out? What have you collected on your journey that you no longer need? What can you pack up and put away for the season?
Take a few minutes to think about how you can spring clean your family building journey. If you feel like it, share your revelations and realizations in the comments.
I spring-cleaned after our first failed set of IVF+FET, getting rid of everything that might remind me of the failure. Now that we’re gearing up for IVF #2, I’ve been trying to spring-clean the negative emotions that have suddenly reappeared. Lots of protect-myself kinds of thoughts, like “I’m telling myself this next try isn’t going to work so that if it doesn’t it won’t hurt as badly.” But what is life if you’re numb to it.