.everything happens for a reason.

.everything happens for a reason., originally uploaded by {kristin W.}.

"All of life is a journey which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.”

Everything in life happens for some reason.

There is no other way you can explain the hard and challenging times in our lives.

I have always thought of my life as a journey filled with different chapters. Each chapter of our lives has a beginning and an end. Each chapter completes our story. Somehow, as hard as it is, we must finish one chapter before we can start writing the next.

With each chapter, either good or bad, we become stronger. We learn to appreciate what we have been blessed with that much more.

Just some food for thought as I close the pages on my chapter of praying and hoping for one more child. After one last ditch effort, it just wasn't in our cards.

I do know that sometimes unanswered prayers are a good thing, and that I have been blessed with two of the most amazing little boys and husband I could have ever have asked for.

There isn't a doubt in my mind that the four of us will fill the rest of the chapters of my life with the most amazing love story ever.