Hi everyone, I’m Charly, I’m 28 (in Dec 2019) and married to the most wonderful guy in the world, Pete. We met at Uni back in 2010 but didn’t get together until 2012, 2 years after Pete had graduated. We got married in 2014 and so have been married for 5 years so far. Mostly wedded bliss, sometimes not so much!
Most of the time I am known as Mrs Cornell as I am a full-time Primary school teacher which takes up a lot of my life, but when I’m not Mrs Cornell and just Charly, I love nothing more than just relaxing at home or spending time with my gorgeous friends. I also love to dance but I don’t have as much time to do that anymore.
I am a Christian. Like a proper Church-going, hand-raising, daily-praying kind of Christian. My faith is incredibly important to me and is the foundation which I aim to build my life upon. I am sure that if you scroll through my blog, you’ll see references to my faith. As I say in my first post, I am sorry if my faith offends you. If it intrigues you or you just want to ask me questions because it all sounds a little strange, feel free! Happy to answer questions about what I believe and why I believe it.
We have been trying to conceive (TTC) for a while now. It seems like forever. Like actual forever. In reality, our journey has been shorter than some people’s, but much longer than most. Statistically, we are in the 15% of people who didn’t get pregnant in their first year of trying. We are also the 1 out of 8 couples who struggle with infertility in the UK. Those statistics sound surprisingly high considering I don’t actually know many people who have struggled with it (or who have opened up about it). This is one of the reasons I wanted to start this blog; so that those I know (and don’t know) are able to see that it does actually happen to real, normal people and that it is more common that we think. Like a lot of other topics, infertility isn’t discussed a whole lot and I feel it is really sad. It shouldn’t be taboo and if we were a little more open about it, perhaps it wouldn’t feel so utterly devastating and lonely to be here.
Thank you for being here and reading a small insight into my life. My aim is to just shed some light on what it means to go through the struggles of journeying to start a family, and hopefully one day, the joy that comes after a heck of a lot of pain.
Charly x
Journeying to Family 