Some Thoughts

*Today is 3dpo and I have terrible heartburn - my one symptom from when I was pregnant last year.  I don't even want to think about it - I'm sure my body is just playing terrible tricks on me.

*The thought of being pregnant again actually scares me to death - what if my body rejects pregnancy again?

*Then again, it could all be in my head and it's really way too early to tell anything anyways.

*We had a Snow Day yesterday and it never snowed until 4 O'Clock in the  afternoon.  It was wonderful!

*Only 2 more days of work and then we are on vacation for a week.

*We get to go to a 12 hour crop on Sunday - bring on the scrapbooking!

*Olivia is coming to play from Mon to Wed - we are looking forward to it.

*We can finally go snowshoeing this weekend because we got some snow yesterday (5 inches).

*Next week marks the beginning of year 5 of our TTC journey - we should be on child 2 by now.

*Did I mention that we are on vacation next week?  YAY!!!

Day One and the Stowaways

Our first day of vacation was spent driving to New York and it was actually an easy 450 mile drive. We got our tent all set up and I pulled out the grill to start making dinner. I opened the grill to start it and saw this:



To which I said to MJ - "Oh, some mice must have built a nest in the grill when we had it in the shed - I good thing I saw it or we would have had a nice fire when I started the grill." So, I took the grate off the grill and lifted up the burned cover to get the nest out. That was when I saw four beady little eyes staring back at me:



Now, I hate mice!!!! I quickly closed the cover and made MJ go look. Once I was over the initial shock, we did as any good scrapbookers would- we took pictures!

So, we walked into the woods and dumped the suckers out along with their nest. One of them ran away quickly and the other was quite stunned - all I kept thinking was that there may be more in the van!






After we relocated our new friends, we had a great dinner and enjoyed sitting by the fire. We went to bed early because we had to get up the next day and head for Indiana.

On Friday, we made it to Indiana with no problems, had another nice evening by the fire and headed out to the Wis.consin De.lls on Saturday morning. We'll leave that for tomorrow's post.

We're Home!

We are home and we had a fabulous vacation! I am working on posts to update everyone about our vacation. We have lots to tell and plenty of pics to share. We made it home on Sunday night and had a nice relaxing day today. It is always nice to come home and sleep in your own bed! The dogs and cats missed us and are glad we're all home and back together again! Be watching in the next few days for a bunch of updates - I am breaking them into separate posts...

On the TTC front, I took my last BCP last night and am now just waiting for my cycle to start. I would assume that it will be in the next couple of days. Then we jump on the crazy TTC bandwagon again. To tell you the truth, I am scared to death. I am so afraid that the BFP will come again and it will all just end the way it did last time. We'll just keep thinking positive and remember that the doctor has faith that my body knows what to do and I can get pregnant again.

Glad to be back!

We're on Vacation!

AHHHH!! One of the joys of being a teacher is vacation - a break from the hoodlums! This week is April Vacation and we have been counting down the days! It will be so nice to have a week to just sleep late and do whatever we want. On Tuesday we have some teacher friends coming over to scrapbook for the day, Thursday the dogs have to go to the vet and next weekend we are going to Ya.nkee C.andle in MA to meet some friends from New York for the night. So, just enough to keep us busy but with plenty of downtime as well.

BUT FIRST - on the more exciting front, we have our first ultrasound on Monday morning. We can't wait! My mom is going to come along with us as well which will be lots of fun. We will be 7w6d on Monday, so we should be able to get a decent look at the Chicklet. I have definitely been exhausted and the nausea comes and goes in waves. I seem to either have a really good day or a really bad day and nothing in between. It is nice to have those good days though!

That's it from here - we'll be sure to post an update when we get back from our appointment on Monday.

In Like a Lion!

Well, March is certainly coming in like a lion! We are slated for another foot of snow tonight and tomorrow. I think I would rather have all of my hair pulled out one strand at a time than have more snow. That probably means a snow day as well, and we just had a week of vacation - we don't need another day off. I'm officially done with winter.

Speaking of winter, the Winter Carnival was a bust yesterday, so we just stayed home and hung out with Olivia. We played W.ii, colored, ate cookies, played on the computer, etc. It was a great day. Today we will return her to Mom and Mama.

We are also going to a scrapbooking class this afternoon to make a Never Ending Card - pictures to follow! I love going to these classes and learning new things.

On the TTC front, we are still plugging away - my estrogen level was still really low on Friday, so I am staying on the same dose of Foll.istim (75iu) and going back for bloodwork on Tuesday. My body always stays low at the beginning and then my levels seem to jump literally overnight. I will probably go back again on Friday and then we will monitor things much more closely after that. I would assume that the IUI will be next week sometime around the 11th or 12th.

Happy March!

Fun with Olivia

So, as I said in my last post we have Olivia for the weekend. She is always lots of fun. We started our day yesterday with the all important BRAND NEW episode of The Back.yardigans. Missing it would have been a tragedy!

We played some W.ii in the afternoon and then we made some projects. Markers, glue, paper, and scissors are all a five year old needs. We now have a beautful snowflake and a butterfly card hanging on the fridge!

Then came time for cookie making. Olivia got all of the cookie cutters she wanted and lined them up ready to go. She very nicely made selections from all seasons so we ended up with everything from Christmas trees to hearts, to bunnies and much more.

I just love this picture - I was sprinkling flour on the island to roll out the cookies and MJ happend to snap a pic at the same time!

Here she is cutting out the cookies.And of course, she had to make sure the frosting was good to eat!

According to Miss Olivia all we needed was purple, pink, and white for frosting because "Those are Valentine's colors, you know."

We had lots of fun frosting and sprinkling the cookies. I'm not sure if more frosting went in Olivia's mouth or on the cookies. I know that more sprinkles ended up on the floor than on the cookies! We had to vacuum when we were done!



Here is one tray of our final creations!

Today we are off to a Winter Festival in the town where my parents live, so we'll have some good pics and stories from that!

Vacation Update

We have had a great vacation and can hardly believe it is practically over already. We ended up having to call in the troops (my dad and brother) to help us dig out of the storm - they were life savers - we just couldn't do it all alone. The snowbanks where the plow went by were up to my waist. When we finally dug out the mailbox, it was broken off the post, so we just stuck it in the snowbank!

Anyways, we had a great trip to Fox.woods - we had lots of fun, but darn those machines that just kept eating all of our money! We had a fabulous room and MJ was quite excited that we had a KING size bed (I'm kind of a bed hog)!



I was excited that you could sit on the "throne" and talk on the phone!!



It was so great to just get away for a couple of days. On the way home we stopped at IK.EA and did some shopping which was fun as well.

Yesterday we were cleaning machines and we emptied all of the furniture out of the bedrooms upstairs and cleaned the carpets, etc. Definitely a necessity when you have two dogs and two cats.

This morning I went for bloodwork to see how the meds are doing. I will continue stimming for at least another week. I'll get the results later today.

And, finally, we have our favorite five year old Olivia for the weekend, so I'm sure we'll have some fun posts of our adventures with her!

15 inches

We went to bed last night in the midst of a snowstorm with no power. We woke up this morning to this:

Um, yeah, we got a little bit of snow overnight! It is beautiful though! I am sitting here looking out the window at just a blanket of snow. The poor dogs couldn't even get out to go pee this morning.

In other news - we went to my parents for dinner last night. Alan (my brother) made ribs, beans, cole slaw and corn bread. Can we say YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY! The funny thing is that we though it would just be the five of us (MJ, myself, mom, dad, and Alan). Well, add another 7 people to the mix and we practically had a party. It was lots of fun and great food too!

Tomorrow we are heading to Foxwoods - a casino for the night. It should be lots of fun and hopefully we can win some money! If not, it will be a great mini getaway.

Back to Reality

One of the best things about being teachers is that we have April Vacation! Even better was the fact that it was absolutely gorgeous here in NH this past week. It was in the 70s and 80s every day! It was a welcome relief after the 100 + inches of snow that we had this winter.

But now it is back to reality - here we sit on Sunday afternoon - vacation is over. It is back to work tomorrow. At least it is raining today, and is supposed to on Monday as well. That makes it a little easier to go back to work.

Not to mention the fact that we have to get up extra early tomorrow morning because I have to have blood work done to check my levels. Let's just hope that they are good and the meds are working nicely. If all goes well, we will hopefully inseminate this weekend.

Please, oh please let this be Lucky #7!