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    When Hope Still Hurts

    October 9, 2020 /

    My period is late – way late! And just to add context, I am also pre-menopausal. Aaron and I are in the process of adoption. We have accepted our fertility challenges and feel called to grow our family in a way we hadn’t ever imagined for ourselves. My forty-something friend is 12 weeks pregnant! Okay, confession time. Back to my period…I am late, like weeks late. My body has felt like I should be bleeding but nothing happens. With this context and all the various factors swirling around, I started wondering (hoping, really) that I was pregnant! I recognized that little flitter inside my stomach. The one that you get…

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Hi! I’m Mandy Bond, mom, writer and curator of Her First Role Model, a blog for women and the women they are raising. We are part of a tribe where the voices are many and varied. Let me introduce you to some of those voices. They’re my mommy role models and their daughters. No topic is off limits and I’ll share my own successes and failures as live into being my daughter’s first role model.

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