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processed 9dp3dt

Ok so fine. YES I have been testing. Often. And getting sad because things have been alabaster. Stark white. Which meant my hope sails were swiftly sinking and I was bracing myself for the super sized sad. I got a nice test with my W pregnancy at 8dp3dt (eight days passed a three day transfer, [...]

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#vlogmom

This is the video that I recorded last week and now it is finally time to share it. I imagine my answers will come as NO surprise. Share your answer in the comments

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beautiful peony

1. My peonies are beginning to bloom and they are jaw-droppingly stunning 2. W tests boundaries every 3 minutes 3. I have lots of work on my plate (and some of it is design so that is particularly satisfying) 4. OMG what is going to happen on the finale of Smash??? 5. Listen to Your [...]

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I have been a Mother for just over three years. I seek out advice from my friends daily on how to be a better Mother. (This mostly means being a better Mother through understanding my son.) My Mom pretty much flew by the seat of her pants. Her Mother, my Grandmother, was perhaps not the [...]

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Explaining Pollination

by on May 8, 2012

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smelling roses

Our navy car is now yellow, thanks to the great pollination situation that is happening in the Northeast. As we climbed into the car this morning W got pollen on his leg and exclaimed, “What’s this STUFF?!” This, obviously, prompted a science lesson about flowers and bees. Which then brought us to the “baby seeds”. [...]

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Putting the F in FET

by on May 6, 2012

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FET day

Oh hi. Yup. It’s me. FINALLY updating whoever is out there on how Friday went. Let’s have a play by play, shall we? I couldn’t help but compare this FET to the one I had in 2008. In both cases I stressed about who would take care of my number one responsibility while I was [...]

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#VlogMom: Oops

by on May 3, 2012

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#vlogmom

I goofed and did the wrong theme for the vlog this week, so you will have to wait to see me on the youtubes again. SORRY! Since I am taking the next few days off to get knocked up I had a fair bit of work to do at work and I also wanted to [...]

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Today a skilled embryologist took a straw out of a freezer and allowed the contents within to thaw. The contents are my embryos. Two celled smidges frozen in 2007. I will know some time thursday if they survived and what quality they are. photo credit: Aaron Landry via photo pin cc

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injecting PIO

In 2007 I asked you guys to walk me through giving myself PIO (progesterone in oil) shots in my rump. As usual ya’ll did not let me down and the comments from that PIO post are quite kick ass. (HA! See what I did there?) I later found out that a good number of folks [...]

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