Hi, we're the Coleman's.
And this is the story of our miracle.
In January 2012, our life was finally coming to be what we hoped it would be.
I just got a new job working for Good Life Fitness, as well as we just moved into a big
beautiful farmhouse out in the country.
When God was really just putting things in order for us, we'd been praying for Him to
show us when it would be the right time to have children.
And we finally felt that He had everything lined up in a way that now was the proper
time.
So we decided to start trying for a baby.
Well, we'd been trying for quite some time.
And when Mother's Day rolled around, that's whenever it started to get to me a little
bit more.
It was hard to go in and have to sit through a service that honored mothers when that
was so much part of what I wanted for my life, and what I felt God's will was for my life.
When it started not happening as quick as we thought it would.
And we got to Christmas and thought that we could potentially be pregnant.
We took a test and waited a couple minutes like the box said to, and when we looked it
was negative.
It was hard because we were actually quite angry at God.
I felt as if He'd led me on, almost in a sense.
So every day would go by, I'd come home from work and it hurt me, but I knew that it was
devastating on Tiffany.
And as a husband, I want to fix things.
As a man, I want to fix things.
But when I have an issue like this and there's nothing physically I can do as a mortal man,
I'm just left standing on the sidelines with my hands in my pockets just broken.
After the first year of trying, we went to go see the doctor, and when I explained to
him our situation of how we'd been trying for a year, he kind of stopped and gave me
one of those looks that makes me a little bit uncomfortable, and he said, okay, we're
going to have to look into that a little bit more.
After we left the doctor's office for the first time, he recommended us to a fertility
center.
And with that came so much more anxiety than I already even had myself.
There was a moment where I could have stepped back and really turned on God and blamed him
for the whole thing.
And he's never let me down.
I've always been able to rely on him, and whether it's today, tomorrow, or even years
from now, I've always been able to look back and see like, oh, that's right, you were there.
I just didn't see it at the time.
So in April, when we got our diagnosis from the fertility center, we actually learned that
there was nothing wrong with us, which made things that much worse for me because there
was nothing that could actually be fixed.
They did give us two different options.
You can continue to wait like you have, or there's in vitro, and it just seemed from
one extreme to another.
And so we just sort of left dwelling on our options, feeling a little cornered.
We didn't tell a lot of people that we were struggling with getting pregnant.
I felt that it would add that much more pressure, but the ones that I did tell, I knew would
be very encouraging.
I knew that they would keep us in their prayers, and I knew that they were on our side.
My mom was really good.
She always reminded me of the verse in Jeremiah where God says that he knows the plans that
he has for us.
And because I felt so strongly that part of God's plan for my life was to be a mom, I
had to be reminded of that constantly in order to keep my faith up.
It always came back to me to wanting to fix the issue when it's just something she wanted
and she couldn't have at this moment.
It really killed me inside.
We were going to go away the first weekend in June just to kind of have a little bit
of a break.
My birthday was a couple weeks before that, so it was a perfect opportunity to get away.
And we were just talking about different things in bed one night, and pregnancy came up, which
when you're trying for a baby and you have been for that length of time, it comes up
often.
And Franky said to me, maybe you are pregnant, but after that much time of trying, you just
doubt that it's ever going to happen.
So I took a test, and before the time was even up, the results were very obvious that
it was positive.
She approached me with her pregnancy test, got to get her to explain it to me, and when
she told it to me, it was just like somebody just poured a bucket of warm water down my
back, and it was just so refreshing, and I just felt so awake and alert, and just overjoyed.
All this waiting, and boom, we're here.
It's not, I didn't see it coming, because now it's here.
You've tried for so long, and you didn't think you could get it, and it was so hard
to control the situation, and when you finally get it, it just, it changes your life immediately.
I can't even really get described the little details, other than that, it was just probably
the most joy I've ever felt in my entire life.
Being a mom is fantastic.
It's everything that I thought it would be.
At this point, it's still just, it's so fresh, it's so new, and it's so wonderful that it's
just, it's really the best time.
Every day I look at him, and I see a little bit of Tiffany in him, and then the next day
he'll come, and I'll see a little bit of me in him, and it's just so fun, and he's so
full of life, and when he looks up at you, and he gives you a little smirk, it's almost
like he knows what we've been through, and he was holding out on us as a big joke.
And when he's older, I'm gonna be telling him he's my little miracle child, and we've
been praying for him, probably since the day we got married.
When you go down a road like that, and the hurt, and everything behind it that you go
through when you finally get it, it's definitely your miracle.
