Greta had an appointment today to measure follicles. Apparently she has two that will be ready in two days. :) This may just be the month! She goes in on Wed to measure the follicles, and if all is well, we'll inseminate either Friday or Saturday. YAY!!!
Maybe this is the month - maybe, maybe, maybe! :)
I'm struggling to keep up with this blog because we haven't had great news to post about - but I guess that's life, huh?
But - she's only going to be there for two weeks. So - ugh. It's gotten to be today pretty bad, but I guess I'll be okay.
Anyway - Greta's follicles weren't big enough for IUI, so she started on clomid again yesterday - 100 mgs a day for five days. We'll see how that goes I guess.
On to other news:
My grandmother fell the other night and my mom freaked because she thought she broke her hip. Luckily, it wasn't her hip, but unfortunately it was her pubic bone. :( It is broken in two places. So - what comes with a broken bone? Lots of pain medication. Normally that wouldn't be a bad thing, but if you add lots of pain medication to an 89 year old with dimensia, you get a complete disaster. She fell again last night. This time, she broke her collar bone and bruised all of her ribs. So - my mom and step-dad are trying to figure out wat to do because my mom can't lift my grandmother to help her to the bathroom - and my step-dad has to work. So- we're not sure what to do.
Also - in other news -
A childhood friend of mine got into a horrible motorcycle accident yesterday. His sister and I were the best of friends since we were in preschool - but we've become quite distant since I came out of the closet. But, nonetheless, they were my family for over 25 years.
He wasn't wearing a helmet :( He's still alive, but he is in critical condition - he is in Trauma ICU at Shands. :( There's more problems than not with him, but the biggest thing is he has a ton of blood in his brain and is in a coma. He's 37. He has two children.
Please send good mojo to my family and my friend. :(
~Tara
- Mood:
worried
She had a great time last weekend - finally being able to drink a beer. LOL So - she goes back to the doc on Friday to start a new IUI process. So - here's to try number two.
sigh
- Location:Home - as usual
- Mood:
determined - Music:LMN
So - we're 11dpiui, did an hpt and got a bfn.
That's our story and we're sticking to it.
We're already trying to figure out how to make our office a nursery. Our office is a separate sitting room (with doors) inside our bedroom. It will be a fantastic nursery because it's IN our room - and not across the house - which is where the third bedroom is. Since the baby will only be in his/her room while he/she sleeps, it's not important to us to have the baby in the far bedroom. When the baby reaches about a year old or more, I would assume we'd move the baby to the third bedroom. By then, maybe we will have been able to purchase a nice sofa bed for the front room for guests. :)
So - there's the plan. We SERIOUSLY need good mojo coming our way. Hopfully we have a little baby brewing in there!!!! :)
- Mood:
nervous
So - 11 it is. I've decided I have to just go with it. I can't make her younger and I can't keep her like a baby. She's starting fifth grade in a week. One week. ONE WEEK she starts fifth grade. She got her teacher assignment the other day and she got a bit upset, but she was also upset last year when she found out she had a guy as a teacher, but he proved to be the most amazing guy and the best teacher she ever had. So - I'm really hoping this new teacher will work with her like Mr. Boyer did. So - anyway - TOTALLY off subject. Our baby is 11. :( Do you know what that means? Two years before she's a teenager; Four years before she gets her learner's permit; Five years before she's driving and will have her own car; Seven years before she graduates from high school. Jees - I'm so freaking old...I'm so freaking O L D.
Moving on --- We're getting closer to the baby time. Greta's one step closer to the day! :) She starts on clomid this week, so maybe next week will be the magical time. I'm hoping that we'll get pregnant the first time, but I'm realizing that it's going to take probably at least six cycles. :( We did find a donor - a WONDERFUL looking donor who's incredibly credible. He's amazing - and very attractive - and there's no major health issues in any of his family (we have three generations of health issues), and he just seems like an awesome candidate. We had one donor that we liked better, but he wasn't available. If for some awful reason we need more than three vials, we'll try to get the second donor (if he's back in the program).
So - I think that's it - I'm emotionally over it today. :(
BTW - Mady's party was SENSATIONAL yesterday. She had another luau and it was incredible. We had a double water slide in our back yard and the girls had an amazing time!
Mady's school supplies are purchased
Mady's birthday decorations are purchased
Mady's cake has been ordered
Mady's birthday present is purchased (and received)
Mady's school clothes have been purchased
Mady's school shoes have been purchased
So - what do I have to do yet?
Buy food for Mady's birthday party
Buy Margarita glasses (plastic ones) for Mady's party
Buy Pina Colada mix for Mady's party
Polish the floors before her party
Get guest room prepared for my parents
Mow yard
Give Buddy a bath
Cut Halley's hair
Not too bad, eh? I have until her party, which is August 9th to get the majority of this crap done. Although - the floors will need to be done sooner rather than later, and the yard will have to be mowed more than once - but I think we'll be good.
I think that's about it for this update.
Oh - Greta's next appointment is the 31st - so we'll get the papers signed that we need to create the account with PRS, and I think we'll know a little more about our IUI process. :)
- Mood:
tired
So - I've had some things change around at work, which isn't out of the ordinary. Generally though, when things change around I'm usually in the "know". Well, this time, I was so far out of the "know" it wasn't funny. AND the changes effected me and my direct report. So - we're going to be reporting to a new attorney. I don't have a problem reporting to the new attorney but change is so difficult. I hate having to prove my worth over and over and over with new teams. But - whatever. Ten and a half years at the same company, one has to expect change, right?
With that said, I think I'm going to take a personal day tomorrow and just figure out my place in the department and the company. Everytime something like this happens to me if I just take a day I'm good. So - that's what I'm going to do. :)
Anyway - that's all I have for now.
- Mood:
complacent
So - the girls and I went to paint at Get Fired Up, with is the pottery painting place in downtown Melbourne. We had a BLAST! Greta showed up a little after 12 with lunch, and we painted until around 3. Then - I took Mady's little friend home, and Greta went to pick up Ethan (our friend's little boy), because we promised to keep im for the night.
Ethan is quietly sleeping in our make-shift nursery (which will be our baby's nursery - the bonus room right off of our master suite), Mady is playing online, Greta's killing people on the XBox 360, online thingy and here I am posting a new blog. What a wonderful life. :)
BTW - have I mentioned recently that my Mady will be 11 in a couple of weeks? We ordered her cake today from Publix and it is sooooo freaking awesome! She wants a Wii for her birthday. Couldn't find one in the stores down here, but I was able to find one on Ebay. Haven't rec'd it yet (which is making me a bit nervous), but I'm hoping it'll be here in time!!!
In other news, on the education front: I registered for my first MBA class today. Class starts on August 13, 2008, and my first class is Business Communication. I'm actually a little excited, because I LOVE communication classes. Even though a lot of the class is objective, there's a decent amount of the study schedule that's comprehensive.
Well, this update is a bit longer than I intended it to be, so I'm going to wrap it up.
Great weekend everyone!
- Mood: tired
Greta took her first prenatal vitamin today. :) She didn't throw up and she successfully swallowed it on the first try. :) She's going to get her labs done tomorrow, bright and freaking early. Then, she has to go to work - ON A SATURDAY. :( I'm taking Mady and her little friend Kaitlyn to the pottery shop and we're going to paint until around 3. THEN...I have to take Kaitlyn home, go pick up Ethan by 4:00, and then bring him back to the house. Our friends are going out on a date in Orlando, and it takes about 45 min to get there. So - (why that matters I have no clue) - I'm keeping Mr. E-Train tomorrow night. I'm going to run by Toys R Us, I think, and pick him up a new couple of toys. The stuff he has here is like 3 months old - and he's about to start walking. Since we're going to have him from Sun - Fri of next week, we're going to need some stuff I think.
New subject:
Can I just say how freaking excited I am to be OUT OF SCHOOL until August 13th? I got an A on my Appellate Brief, which means that I made a solid A in my Capstone class. I also made an A in my Career Development class. I can't wait to check out my GPA for the whole program. I hope it's at least a 3.5. I made one C this program, but I lso made a couple of B's. I hope it all averages out. I want to graduate Cum Laude again.
I think that's about it. Not too bad at the updating, huh?
Tara
- Mood: tired
So - we can do a cycle once a month. Since it's IUI instead of IVF, it's not nearly as invasive as the IVF cycles are. The only medication she'll be on will be Chlomid (sp), and the ONE injection to release the follicles (egg(s)) right before insemination. Our doctor thinks she has a really good chance of getting pregnant. YAY! She's going for blood work on Saturday, and she has another doc appointment on July 31st. That appt will send us for the Chlomid. She'll be on that medication for five days, and then she'll go back for an appointment to check the size of her follicle(s). Once the follicle(s) are the right size, then she'll do the one injection to release the follicles, and then we'll go for insemination. After the insemination, we'll know if she's prego in 2 weeks (thus called the two week wait).
I'm currently looking around online to find message boards of some sort for lesbian couples that are going through this process. If anyone knows of any out there, please let a sister know. :)
- Location:living room :)
- Mood:
hopeful - Music:So You Think You Can Dance
In Feb, Greta and I will have been together five years. I think we're about as committed to each other as we possibly can and I think we have a pretty damned good relationship. We're still in love - just as we were four and a half years ago. We've made many dreams and goals come true and still have a long list of things to-do. We're to the "baby" piece on that to-do list. Now that we have the specifics ironed out (which doctor, which sperm bank, who's carrying, names, etc.), we're ready to go. I just really hope and pray that everything works out medically and we'll be able to get pregnant the first time. I'd hate to have to go through the disappointment of not getting pregnant over and over and over. I've done that before, and I just can't even imagine going through all of that again. But - alas, we're really trying to go through this with a positive attitude. We're going to need to set some boundaries so we know when enough trying is enough. We'll have this discussion at some point I think....just not today. LOL
Anyway - that's my update for the day.
Is anyone still out there?
- Mood:
excited
So, I think I’m going to start posting on LJ again. Weird, huh? It’s been YEARS! But, I have been reading some of my old posts, and so many things have changed! I owe it to myself to update this LJ and journal our journeys that are up and coming.
What’s changed, you ask?
Well, I just completed my last paper for my Bachelor’s Degree. Remember when I started school???? It was in Jan 2005. I’m sure I posted about it. I’ll have to check that out. Anyway, I’ve completed my AS degree and BS degree. I begin the MBA program on August 13th. Nice, huh? I should be finished with that by August 2010.
I’m still with the same company. STILL working from home, but home has moved. J I’m in Melbourne, Florida now. I’ve gotten a few promotions since my last post, and I’m now over the Civil Subpoena Discovery team in the Legal department. My team and direct reports are responsible for objecting to, or producing for legally properly served civil subpoenas. Big change since I first started posting LJ, huh?
For the biggest news, Greta and I are trying to have a baby. :) Mady is nearly 11, and hopefully in a year or so we’ll have a little one in the house! Our first appointment for the reproductive specialist is Thursday. The biggest shocker here? Greta’s going to be the one to get pregnant. I was going to do it, but after having some serious medical issues last year, I had to have surgery in January of this year, and I can not have any more biological children. L Thank GOD for Mady.
So – is anyone still here in LJ world??
- Location:work, aka living room
- Mood:
content - Music:HGTV
So - it's been entirely too long since I've updated this thing!! Everything's so new I don't even know which button's to push!!
I honestly can't remember the last thing I posted about (just signed in and clicked on update journal), so let's start with the basics.
We moved again - surprise surprise! We're living in Melbourne now. We love it. We have a great house in a great neighborhood, and Mady is really close to her best friend. As a matter of fact, we're only three blocks away. I'm still with AOL working from home and Greta's working for Liberty Aerospace. I've done a bit of traveling for work recently, and have just had a fantastic girls weekend in Orlando!
I don't think there's anything else worth mentioning right away, but I am intending on keeping up with the journal again - I just hope I have the energy to do it!! :)
So - that's the news. Nothing else to report.
:-D
Let's give it a try, why don't we?
So - I just finished the last of my final papers that I have to do. I still have a final exam (I hope and pray the professor will open it up for me to take - it seems I got carried away on my paper and lost track of time - the damned thing closed an hour ago). So - I hope he'll do that, or I'm bound to make a C or worse - which would REALLY piss me off. UGH
New news? Nope. Greta is still working in Savannah - and she may go to Alabama, then Kentucky. Can I just say that I HATE it that she is working away from us and cannot stand the thought of her working so far away that we can't see her every weekend? UGH UGH UGH. We'll know more soon enough I guess, but I hate the though of it.
My new classes, Advanced Legal Writing II and Humanities, starts at the end of January. Doesn't look like I'm going to get much time off this time. That sucks too. (I think thos post is turning into a whine fest - I'm sure it won't do much for the requested posts, huh?)
I have to go to bed now - it's 233 am - and I am one tired bitch. LOL
Nighty night!
Part 1 - LLLOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG post. So long that it had to be put into two posts. LOL
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- Location:At home
- Mood:
satisfied - Music:Christina's Court
- Location:Home - as usual
- Mood: satisfied
- Music:Christina's Court - LOL
Greta's still in Savannah. UGH The good news on that front is that she's going to be here for five days over the Thanksgiving holidays. :) I hate that we have limited time to spend together and we only see each other about once a week, but it certainly makes me value the time we have together FOR SURE. The time that we have seems priceless now. I really do miss her and cannot wait until we don't have to count the hours before she has to leave again. I know she's sick of it too - for real. She's stuck in a hotel suite thingy with Buddy and I'm sure she's sick to death of it.
So - in other news - one of my closest friends is going through some serious shit right now. UGH It makes me sick to know the shit she's having to deal with and having to go through - basically alone. Clearly I'm not going to go into all of it here in a public forum, but you know who you are....I'm here for you!
So - Turkey day holiday. Again, all of my family is coming to my house. YAY!!! I love not having to travel and find places for my animals and/or leaving them alone. It's not fair to them. So - in turn, my little tiny townhouse will be converted to a hotel suite. LOL The same thing will happen for Christmas. Greta's mom is coming here from Texas. YAY x 2!!! :-D I can't wait for the holidays this year. I am on some good meds and can handle just about anything this year. LOLOL
Anyway - I guess that's about enough for now.
Look forward to some updates!!!!
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