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Re: TTT
1. I had a great time having the kids to myself yesterday.::sigh:: there go the sahm pangs again...
2. DW's first reaction to last week's "and now we wait" news was really disapointing to me. Thankfully she's turned it around since
3. i have pink eye. again. if i find out which one of those little buggers is the constant carrier, they are getting voted off the island!
4. its funny to me that our family was shocked beyond shocked with our Daisy baby surprise last year...fast forward a year and now they keep asking when the next call is coming!
5. I'm bummed that the adoption tax credit is changing - that would have been a wonderful college nest egg for the kiddos
6. i hope Sprout's behavior settles back down now that christmas is over.
7. Everytime RB walks by her picture with santa on the fridge she says, "Miss you Santa! Thank you for the lipstick! love you, see you next year!" lol.
8. she is all sorts of too much.
9. Sprout's daycare teacher did her make up today adn i totally didn't even recognize her. wow, that's bad.
10. off to see if the clinic is open for some eye drops...
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1. It suddenly feels like Jen's pregnancy is going by really fast.
2. We found an OB near my parents who specializes in multiples and had great word of mouth, and set up an appointment for two days after Jen moves out there. I'm relieved to have that settled.
3. I'd love to have a quiet, relaxed week at work, but things originally scheduled for October were postponed to this week and next week - ugh.
4. I'm going to try to give up sugar (except for a few special occasions) again on Jan 1st. It's not a resolution per se, just a good time to try it again.
5. My uncle unexpectedly gave me cash for Christmas. I'm going to squander it at Sockdreams.com.
6. I'm addicted to the game Glass Towers. I played it for half an hour this morning instead of getting ready for work. I might need to uninstall it :-P
7. I made my grandma's rolls for Christmas, but her instructions were less than precise. They didn't taste anything like hers. I think they need to rise a second time after you shape them, but who knows.
8. I'm not sure why I bother cooking anythng for family dinners when my brother and mom are so much better at it. I should just enjoy their talents
9. My coffee buddy is here, so I will stop there!
1. RB cracks me up!
2. I just bought tickets for us to go to Medevil Time for NYE with the kids (well, at 6:30pm) I think they will love it. I can't wait to surprise them!
3. I was technically only out 1 day (Friday), but still feel like I have a ton to catch up on.
4. I love the Tracy Chapman's New Beginning CD. I am listening to it now on my phone.
5. Yesterday we put the kids in camp while L and I had a whole day to ourselves. We stopped at TJ Maxx, went to have coffee, went to lunch, and saw a movie. Ahhh. A whole 8 hrs of kid free time.
6. I am a bit bummed that L is heading off to a hotel to write for two nights this week. She has a big dissertation deadline that she can't miss and since the kids are in camp, we are leaving later than normal and getting home earlier than normal. She needs all of the uninterrupted time she can get. Thankfully, she will be home for the long NYE weekend.
7. Last night we picked up the kids from camp and got home by 4:30. It was awesome. We had time to fix dinner, clean, play a game of Scrabble, and read. I really wish we could get home that early every day. It would make life so much easier and less rushed in the evenings. Getting home at 6:15pm with kids stinks.
8. We took down the Christmas tree and all of the interior holiday decorations last night. With the tree we had to reconfigure the living room and it was so cluttered and cramped. Normally, we move a chair or two to the basement/playroom while we have the tree up, but with the ILs here and a friend coming over for Christmas, we needed all of our seating. It feels so open and clean now!
9. This weekend will be spent culling the boys' toys. There is a lot of stuff down there that they never play with. And we need the room.
10. Off to work.
1. RB is SO funny!
2. Getting ready to leave in a few hours. Brazil, here we come...
3. I haven't been back since I moved here six years ago.
4. I'd be FINE not going.
5. I can't believe how completely not excited I am by this trip. It's summer, it's the beach, it's gorgeous, and I'd rather be in Boston.
6. I guess I really don't like it there.
7. My parents are excited to see J, though. Boy, are they excited. Crib-buying, car-seat-borrowing, toy-purchasing, baby-proofing excited.
8. Thank goodness for J's godmother - staying in the condo and taking care of our dog. We chose well.
Seriously, she's awesome. Much longer commute for her, but she's still staying at our place. LOVE.
9. This turned into an "I'm not excited about my vacation" post. Sorry.
10. I guess it would be different if I had permanence. Even the thought of having to go back there to live is too much to bear. It's not home. It never was.
1. Christmas was really wonderful. I'm sad its over, but it was so great.
2. I wonder if I will get anything done this week? I think my new years resolution will have to be to gain some productivity at work!!
3. There's a big sale on Tea Collection clothes... which I love, but they are still SO expensive. I have a few things for Gwen sitting in my online cart waiting for me to make up my mind.
4. Trying to get ahold of my tattoo girl to make an appointment for the end of February... damn holidays making it difficult. ;-)
5. I filled out a form for one of those class action suits a year or so ago... just got a check for $18.04! It's nothing special, but I never get anything for those things, and that's a lunch.
6. Which reminds me... I have to run to the bank! Guess we'll do 6 for now!
Maybe I don't have a heightened sense of smell, but I've never smelled any vagina on my pants. -- TSD
Bloggity Blog - You know you want to...
1. Third attempt...the first two on my phone didn't work out.
2. Tomorrow is the girls first visit with their mom, I am nervous.
3. I need to make a sensory table/mat/book/something for Owl, textures and self produced sounds (crinkle, rattle, etc) seem to calm her and help her process her emotions.
4. I need to call the utilities today and have them transferred to the new house, we are moving in 3 days!
5. J keeps insisting that the little girl's stay in our room at the new house, I need my space back... Maybe we can meet in the middle and keep the pack n play in our room for the nights when Apple won't sleep.
6. Owl has a strong dislike/fear of toys in her age range so we bought her infant toys for Christmas.
7. J has a video of one of the raging, emotion processing fits Owl had at my Dad's house, I wish I could show it but it shows her face. I give her time outs for those fits (not a trouble timeout, an emotional recovery timeout) but I'm wondering if it's enough, maybe a weighted blanket would help too?
8. I bought some Best Bottoms covers for Apple last week, AMAZING, they work so much better than the Thirsties covers. Cloth diapering mamas, GO BUY NOW.
9. I made a "52 Thing I Love About You" book for J's stocking stuffer gift, it was more well received than I thought it would be.
10. I need to blog, I think I will make that a priority during naptime.
Two Mommies Healing Hearts
how about just a hug? I know it can get dangerous with flailing limbs, but she's still a baby and you can get the hang of it. I found/find hugs to be a lot more productive than weighted blankets and all that because then they have my warmth, smell, and heartbeat to help center. though she may still be touch-averse from her abuse...
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This. She tolerates touch when she is balanced but not during rages, it's the last thing she wants. I've found that laying her in the crib with 2-3 thick blankets on her helps to calm her but she ends up getting hot.
Two Mommies Healing Hearts
1. It's another 3 day week for me. I love having the time at home but that does not help my inbox or sense of sanity here at work.
2. I purged a whole carload of E's old clothes, toys, and other stuff on Friday. It felt so good. Here's to keeping up the momentum...
3. At this point I have no NYE plans. While part of me thinks going out would be fun, there's no special woman to share the fun with so I'm cool with just having time at home puttering away. Is that odd?
4. I am now in the 2 month wait period to see if my purchase of a short sale house goes through. 2WW's I feel your pain!!!
5. I am both excited and scared at buying a home all by myself. I want it so much for E and I though...having a place of our own and being settled for good is so important to me.
6. I am waiting to tell E about the house until the 2 month wait is over and the inspection goes ok. It's so darn hard though because I am so excited!
7. My parents got E a doll for Christmas that has her name. She started calling it E... 2. Too cute.
8. E woke up early this morning to a bad dream and climbed in bed with me. Yawn.
9. I need to meet with my boss to talk about transition plans for my projects in preparation for my move to the new hospital closer to home.
10. I hope everyone has/had good holiday celebrations!
1. I loved watching the girls open their gifts and just play, magic!
2. I need a chosen family ASAP!!! Anyone want to sign up? :-)
3. I cannot stop thinking about the new baby. I am so worried.
4. I want CT to get a good news call right this minute!
5. Pandora is freaking amazing! She is so smart, it's scary.
6. LMC and PBS are playing nicely together today! Alert the media :-)
7. DW's reaction to her surprise gift really hurt my feelings.
8. Did anyone get less holiday cards than usual? I feel like we got less this year. Less loved? Sent to old address? Less cards being sent out? Who knows!
9. Did I mention I can't stop thinking about the baby? I have a strange feeling we may put ourselves in a position to accept the placement if the need should arise. I can't believe we may go through this again.
10. Remind me that I am doing our own holiday celebrations from now on. Hold me to it when I start to waffle next year.
1. I cannot believe how much I miss being pregnant. I cant believe C will be 6 weeks old on Friday.
2. I was diagnosed with postpartum depression. It sucks.
3. Things with Jenn and I are really rocky right now and I'm not sure how it will all end. I really think its related to #2.
4. I have another month of maternity leave but I'm already dreading going back to work.
5. Christmas was great! I can't wait until C is big enough to play with all of the toys he got.
6. I can't believe I spent $140 on a pair of jeans.
7. Some days I wish we didn't have dogs. We've spent more on vet bills this year than on medical bills related to my pregnancy.
8. I'm sad that we won't be able to purchase any vials of C's donor because the ones that are left are being stored at another person's RE clinic. They are willing to sell them but we have no way to store them since we didn't work with a dr when we were TTC. I talked to our sperm bank and they said they couldn't store them for us even though they were originally from there.
9. I'm not looking forward to school starting back again. I thought grad school, working full time, and being pregnant was tough. I can only imagine how tough it will be now that C is here.
10. That's all I've got for today!
1. Christmas with little N was the best christmas of my life. We dug in our heels and stayed home (alone) and it was pure christmas bliss.
2. Poor little bug is having a hard time adjusting to the normal routine. He had a heck of a time with all the people and noise. He is the 22 grandchild and 17 of them were at Christmas. CA. RA. ZY.
3. He is also about to hit 3 months and I think we are feeling the effects of the 3 month growth spurt on top of the over stimulation. He wants to eat, sleep, poop, and is crabby through it all. Poor little boy..
4. We are visiting my very best friend tomorrow in her new house! She bought her first home, closing a few days before Christmas, I can't wait to see it.
5. K got me a yoga gift certificate. I used to be huge into yoga but kind of fell out of it. I cried. a lot. when I opened it. It was the most perfect gift she could have given me after being pregnant, giving birth, and breast feeding. I can't wait to reclaim my body, even if for only 1 hour
6. She also got me a hammered silver necklace with N's name on it. Beautiful.
7. I am going to write up my birth story before the new year.
8. N is nearly out of his 0-3 month clothes and it is making me weepy.
9. Speaking of weepy, we started on his vaccination schedule. We got the DTaP so far and OHMYGOD. He screamed like someone lobbed off his arm
like for over 10 min. it was absolutely awful. I am dreading going back for the next 2 in a few weeks. (this sounds familiar, I may have posted this last week?)
10. I love school vacation, having K home for 9 straight days is (really) all I wanted for Christmas.
1. My wife is working a late shift tonight, so she made our dinners this morning. I cannot describe how happy I was, getting home late after a haircut and some errands, to just pop something homemade in the microwave. Love.
2. I had a good conversation with one of the midwives today about diagnostic tests recommended by the RE we saw. I always think they are going to act like I am paranoid and impatient when I ask for testing but she was very supportive about setting everything up and now I'm just excited to get my period next week (literally the first time I've ever said that) so we can get going again.
3. Christmas was nice but I cannot believe how much unhealthy food I ate over the last couple of weeks. I'm having brownies and egg nog after dinner and then that's IT -- tomorrow I'm weighing in and going to the gym and counting points again. It's gonna be ugly.
4. My family is planning a group trip in March and I've been daydreaming about announcing a pregnancy to them while we're on vacation. Probably shouldn't set myself up for disappointment, but...
5. I set a goal on Good Reads to read 50 books this year and I am only up to 48. I have been scheming to see how I can read 2 whole books in the next four days, while working normal hours and spending time with my wife. Hmmm. Why does it matter so much to me?
6. We are still trying to figure out what to do on NYE. Someone in our group of friends is throwing a (hopefully low-key) party and we're kind of supposed to be going...but we also kind of what to stay home. My wife has NYE and NYD off, which NEVER happens, and we could have a baby (!) next year, so it seems like we should live it up. But we're tired. And apparently lame.
7. That's really all I've got...
9 IUIs = 9 BFNs
IVF October 2012: 22 eggs retrieved, 17 fertilized, 5 frozen
ET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Blighted ovum discovered at 7w5d; D&E
FET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Missed m/c discovered at 9w5d; D&E
Karyotyping: normal ~ RPL Testing: normal ~ Hysteroscopy: normal
FET #2: 1 blast transferred 10/25; BFP 10/31!
EDD 7/13/14 ~ Induced at 37w4d due to pre-eclampsia ~ Born on 6/28/14
*Everyone welcome*
Better late than never for my TTT: