Mother’s Day is a special holiday for me.  I couldn’t wait to be a mother, but that wasn’t easy for me.  When my husband and I got married in 2002, I got sick.  It took a long time to figure out what was wrong with me.  Eventually, when we learned that I had kidney vasculitis, I had to take chemo-type medication and was told that our dream of trying to get pregnant had to be put on hold.  I was devastated. […]