Trying to Understand

Sometimes in life things happen to us and we can't understand why. I have had my fair share of trials and tribulations and throughout it all I had such a strong network of support that helped me see that everything happens for a reason. 

I haven't posted our story yet to share with you all, but I will soon enough.

Throughout our Fertility journey we met a girl-Katherine, sitting in the waiting room at Fertility Ontario. She knew us, through my husbands sister and we began chatting. Both of us diagnosed with Severe Endometriosis and both of us in the middle of our first Invitro Treatments. 

They lived about 15 mins from us and after that day we had lost contact...until......one day in the month of February 2012. I walked back into the Fertility Clinic and my heart dropped, there she was sitting in a chair in the waiting room. I knew instantly that their cycle also didn't work. We immediately began chatting and realized we were both on the exact same cycle again....we exchanged contact info this time so that we could be a support to one another over the next few weeks. 

Sadly, neither of our treatments worked that time either......we cried a lot, laughed a lot and really tried to begin to understand all of this. We both knew in out hearts that we were meant to be mothers and on to Adoption it was. 

We went through the entire Adoption process together as well, all of the trainings, paper work and the waiting period. Our friendship and bond began to solidify. Surprisingly, I had gone to public school with  Andrew and never would have thought that years later he would be one of my best friends. 

The past couple weeks have been difficult,  Katherine and Andrew received news that their dog Cooper had Cancer. This dog is their everything, their best friend, their companion but most of all their son. Cooper went everywhere with them, road trips to the cottage, rides to town, vacation and even went to her parent's everyday while they were at work. On Friday morning I received a message that Cooper wasn't doing well and that we needed to come say goodbye. My heart dropped...this couldn't be happening to them. We went over and said our goodbyes and left, one of the hardest moments to leave them in. at 1:34am I received another message saying that Cooper had just died in her arms. 

Some would say that it's "just a dog" but when life has already been so unfair to them, how could one possibly come to understand why this would have to happen to them next. Right in the middle of wedding planning and Cooper listed to be the Best Man. 

This dog was incredible, and will always have a special place in our hearts.......I know they will find the strength to carry on but in the mean time, please keep them in your thoughts tonight<3