Sold

Our house sold!!!Yay!!! Our house sold over the weekend so we have been busy trying to find a place to live since our new house wont be ready for at least 6 weeks. We will be homeless starting in mid Feb. So between the packing, moving stuff to storage, changing address on a gagillion things and making sure we are not homeless, keeping up with our new house and of course work and school things are extremely busy around here.

On the baby making front, I started my cycle today so I will be taking Clomid and Dexasomething soon. I will also have an ultrasound on day 14 to see if and how the clomid worked. This will be my last cycle with my current obgyn so either I am pregnant at the end of this month or making an appointment with the specialist. I am thinking if this cycle is a bust we will wait until we are settled in the new house before going to the specialist. We'll see how it turns out.

Have a great one everyone!

One of The Big Debate

Disclaimer: This is my opinion in my blog. You are free to disagree but only in a nice way.

So I go attend night classes to obtain my MBA. This semester I have a marketing class. The professor is good and really gets the class involved. In todays lecture something was said that most didnt pay attention but I did. We were talking about changing demographics and one of the points was that 'more kids are getting raised by others'. ???. Does that mean what I think it means? Yup the ever debatable issue of working mommies. My sister and I have this discussion all the time. I think its a decision that every family must make looking at whats best for them.

I dont think that sending your baby to daycare means that you are letting someone else raise your kids. I think there are some great working mommies out there as well as some great stay at home mommies.

I will more than likely be a working mommy. Munchkin will go to the child care place at my employers central office. It is top notch as I work for a federally funded early childhood education organization lol. I am completely comfortable with their care. I really like my job and would like to be able to continue at it. Now this might change when we acutaly have a child but this is our opinion at the moment.

If anybody wants to chime in on this great debate, in a respectable way, feel free

Can you see it?

I have a pretty long commute to work every morning, about 45 minutes each way. The good thing about it is that its back country roads so not too much traffic. Along the way I see cows and lots of green pasture. Sometimes even some deer. This morning I turn the corner and this is what I see. (Yes I stopped in the middle of the road to take a picture, there was no traffic) Can you see it?

Its A RAINBOW!!!

P.S. I carry my digital camera in my purse just in case I see something cool. hehehe

Just for Fun

This is me:

You are The High Priestess

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.

The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Just for the record, this thing does tell the truth about my moods. Hehehe

This is L:

You are The Wheel of Fortune

Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of
intoxication with success

The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Just Chilling

Hey everybody, this is L, Sandra and I are just chilling out and enjoying some down time. The new house is coming along. The second floor is framed and they are getting ready to start on the roof trusses.

Take it easy!

L

Weird

Frances over at Unyielding tagged me. I am supposed to write 6 things that are weird about me. Thanks Frances for my first tag! :)

• I am anal about my socks. All my socks are ankle socks and the lines have to fit perfectly over my toes otherwise it drives me nuts
• I am claustrophobic and cant stand being enclosed. This is one of the reasons I have an open door policy at work lol
• Along with the above is that I dont like big crowds very much. This probably comes from not liking to be touched by strangers lol
• I have a fixation with monkeys. I just love them. My guest bathroom is monkey. I have monkey socks, slippers, blankets, almost anything you can think of.
• My toes look like Vienna Sausages. Long and skinny. Very weird
• I could only think of five and even those arent very good lol
• Edited to Add: I thought of another one: I do not like edges of food. For example, I only eat the brownies in the middle of the pan, rarely eat the crust of pizza :)

I am supposed to tag five people. So you gals are it:

• Lisa at In Due Time
• Jody at Just Keep Swimming
• Larissa at The Waiting Womb

Okay I could only think of three lol.

What she said...

Ditto to what Frances says in this post:

http://unyielding.blogspot.com/2007/01/yah-what-she-said.html

House

Here are some pictures of our new house. They are working on the first floor now.

I am freaking out a little because in order to buy the new house we have to sell our current house. Please send us some prayers to help sell our house. Thanks

A Rant

Why cant life be simple? Why are there always decisions to make? Arghhh. I feel like a very selfish person right now. One on hand a want a baby, any which way I can get it. On the other hand I want to be pregnant. I want to feel life grow inside of me. I know in my heart I will love my child the same no matter how it comes to our lives. I dont know what I want.

Over the past few weeks, we have heard some news that have dimmed our hopes on an adoption from Mexico. I knew from the beginning that adopting from there was hard but now I am thinking its almost impossible. It hurts my heart from having to walk away from it but I am starting to understand that my hope there is fruitless. We have not walked away completly. At this moment we have decided to stay on the list and keep hoping until our US paperwork expires. If there is no adoption by then we will very sadly walk away.

We have also decided to seek fertility treatments. I have one more round with my Ob/Gyn and if that doesnt work then we are going to an RE. The selfish part is that I am willing to do whatever it takes for this to work. I never thought I would get to this point but I have. L and I have decided that we will have a health/fertility loan if there gets a time we need it. Our insurance doesnt cover fertility so its all on us.

I finish my rant by saying that life is rather hectic and busy besides this baby business. Work is busy, I start school next week (only 2 classes left after this semester), and I am still going to the gym.

Oh yeah if anyone knows any good books about infertility and such please let me know.

Feel free to leave a message and make me feel special.

Exercise?

I joined the gym a couple days ago and today was the first day I got to go. Hmm...right now about all I can move are my fingers lol its is so depressing but I hope my motivation continues. I am just not happy with the way I look and want to lose 15-20lbs. I am excited to finally get to this. I also hope it helps baby wise. Thats what I think about while panting on the treadmill hahaha :)

Ok gotta go try to move my muscles lol

New Year

A new year, a new beginning. Here are some of my favorite quotes (the ones in blue are my favorite for this year).

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
-- Thomas Fuller

Don't lose hope. When it gets darkest the stars come out.
-- Unknown

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
-- Pope John XXIII

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.
-- Unknown

Por muy larga que sea la tormenta, el sol siempre vuelve a brillar entre las nubes.
-- Khalil Gibran

El que la sigue la consigue.
-- Refrán

Nunca desistas de un sueño. Sólo trata de ver las señales que te lleven a él.
-- Paulo Coelho

La huella de un sueño no es menos real que la de una pisada.
-- George Duby

LUCKY '07!!!!