"Cherries" on Babble.com!

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Nana was warned by doctors not to get pregnant due to heart issues. But her main heart issue was the desire for a baby, so she risked it. Et voila: her daughter Carolyn, aka my mom-to-be. Here they are on a picnic in the Bronx.

We interrupt this series of road trip food reports to let you know that Cherries in Winter has been excerpted on Babble.com! Babble is a very cool parenting site, and I'm honored that they liked Cherries enough to include it in their section about the difficulties of infertility.

Yeah, that'll give you a hint about which chapter was chosen for an excerpt. As many of you know, The Hubbins and I did not end up replicating ourselves in smaller (hopefully smarter) form. I joke, but I have to because it was a painful journey. There's a large emotional reckoning to being the last of your family line, trying to continue it, and coming to the realization that it's not going to happen. For both of us, the family tree stops with our shared branch.

That was the part where we had to practice acceptance, as well as gratitude. After all, we were just happy to have found each other. As Bette Davis's character says in Now Voyager, "Don't let's ask for the moon; we have the stars."

I wrote about my baby issues in Cherries because I knew other women were probably going through the same weeping and hand-wringing that I went through. I hoped the chapter "When In Doubt, Bake" might be of some help. Fertility issues are a hundred kinds of painful, but there's some relief in commiseration.

I'm hoping that Babble.com visitors, whether they have children or not, will like the excerpt. If you're one of them, let me know what you think.

xx,

S