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100 Day Challenge
I started my 100 day challenge! My goal is to clean daily and maintain what I declutter. Currently just finished day 4. If you would like to follow my progress you can find it here.
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I want to drink the water
People often talk about how if you drink water for a specific place you will end up pregnant. One of my favorite bargain sites just put up a post about drinking from their water cooler if you wanted...
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Life Update
I have been struggling to write, so I am just going to bullet point what has been going on. My younger sister is pregnant AGAIN with #3 (if you know me IRL please don’t go posting on her FB pages she...
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I miss blogging
Grad school has taken over my free time. The evening time that I used to spend blogging is now taken up with grad school homework. For the first time every I find myself trying to get my homework...
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Positive Outlook
As you know my new motto for life is, “Not if, but when.” Infertility has shaken my faith to the core and in the last six month or so I have been rebuilding it. Just a few simple changes in my daily...
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When Life Feels Almost Perfect
It has been a long time since I have posted. There has been a lot going on but not much to write about. Tonight was the first night in a long time I felt the need to write down feelings. Sorry if...
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Still Here
I have been meaning to post for months now but every time I start a post I never finish. Here is a really quick update and hopefully I will be writing more soon. Gradschool: Finished my first full...
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Bitter is not Better
Over the years of IF I have met many people and created many new friends. I will fully admit I have bitter moments but they don’t happen very often anymore. About a week ago I had a bitter moment...
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Dear God
Dear God, We have become very close the last 6 months and I feel very blessed to have found a new church home. This new church home has taught me many things and has helped me to get to the place of...
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3 Years, Loss, and Infertility
On Monday Ant will be 3 years old. It has gone by so fast. Last year around this time I got very depressed about not being pregnant with our second child and knowing we were several years away was a...
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The Dreaded Question
Some how we have made it almost 4 years without Ant asking this question. “When am I going to have a sister or brother?” Tonight as I am putting him to bed he asks me. Granted I am in shock over other...
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Planning for Transfer
We have known for awhile that in 2014 we would transfer our last embryo. Part of me has been anxiously awaiting adding to our family. In the last 6 months my life has completely changed. In May I...
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Dear Totsicle
Dear Totsicle, (Our frozen embryo) This week we met with the RE about bringing you home. At this point I am excited and scared. I am excited about the possibility of your older brother Ant having a...
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When to transfer?
The whole prospect of adding to our family is very exciting but I am finding this time around very different. My initial thoughts were participate in my last schedule race and transfer Tosicle. Since...
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Things I have not missed
Things I have not missed about IF: Visits to the REs office for blood work and u/s Frequent visits to the REs office for test Scheduling your life around IF
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On the down low
Keeping secrets has never been easy for me, I was the person who over shares. DH asked me if I could try to not tell the whole world this time around and wait a normal (whatever that is) amount of time...
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The no talk zone
You can tell you are at a RE appointment when it is completely quiet in the waiting room. Everyone’s eyes are on their phone or a magazine. The women’s faces are sad, exhausted and hopeful. This is the...
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Mix of emotions
I had my mock transfer yesterday and it has created a mix of emotions. In the last 4 years I have enjoyed my freedom from infertility (minus a melt down or two). For the first time in a long time we...
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Snowy Day
After many years of living with infertility I have learned that life is short. It is so important to not let life pass you by. At the end of February we traveled to Disney World for Ant’s 4th...
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