I have finally scraped myself together well enough to write this piece. As someone who has always put my thoughts into words to help me process experiences, especially the tough ones, writing about the loss of an utterly fantastic dog is both wrenching and healing. We made the decision to humanely euthanize Ava on October…

There are still pieces I plan to write about our long road to parenthood through gestational surrogacy. This post is about the endpoint of every thing we’ve been through. I’ll go back and fill in the rest of the major events when I have the chance. As a woman who writes to process the heavy…