National Infertility Awareness Week

National Infertility Awareness Week, sometimes abbreviated as NIAW. The goal of the week is to raise awareness about infertility and help couples with infertility cope with their disease.

The week provides a time for those with infertility to "come out" to their friends and families, if they wish, and encourages the fertility challenged to not feel ashamed. I took part in this last year when I “came out” It was one of the most scary but most powerful thing I could do. I was scarred about what people would think or how they would look at me after I “came out” But to my surprise I had many people support me in this!

Even though our family building journey isn’t resolved. I think it helps so much that people I love and care about are so understanding.

This week I will be posting on my Facebook everyday about NIAW to raise awareness.

Spring time wreath

 

I want to spring up the house a little bit because it is getting nice out. I decided to make a spring wreath to hang on the front door. I made this the day before Easter. I know I'm posting this a little late but it is still cute for spring. (You can even get the peeps on sale now for like 70% off)

 

 

You will need a hoop, ribbon, 2 large packs of peeps, and scissors, and a hot glue gun.

 

Once you have everything its time to get started. You will need to put a small amount of hot glue on the hoop and start wrapping your hoop with the ribbon. Use a drop of glue every so often to keep the ribbon from falling off. (This will take a while so you can do this while watching TV)

 

I ran out of ribbon so I had to use another kind of ribbon to finish up. Once you are done with that you will want to start gluing your peeps on (they work better if they are hard so I let mine dry out a day or two first)

I wanted to jazz up my wreath so I added a flower and a ribbon to hang it up. When you are done you will have something that looks a little like this.

 

When you are done you want to let it sit for a few hours before you hang it up. This will allow it to dry and become stable that way when you hang it up the peeps won't fall off. Don't ask me how I know this just trust me this is what you will want to do.

 

You will also not want to leave it to dry on your parents kitchen table or your dad will come in and think it is a cute way of displaying peeps to snack on. I came back several hours later and half my wreath was gone. Thanks dad! I didn't have any more peeps so I could not redo my wreath but that is ok. It was cute while it lasted.