Blog..blog! It's NOT FUNNY!!

We finally got Mr. Smiley to let us know it was time to get swimmers. We were able to inseminate 3 times over the weekend! Well, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but it still counts as the weekend, right?

Today is day 4 of the 2 week wait until we find out if the "super sperm" (thats what he says he has) worked or not. Fertility friend says that we were right on the money with the chart of temps and OPKs and such, but we all know that, that doesn't always mean you get pregnant. Obviously, since this is taken us officially a year to get to this point. Granted we did have to take a few months off here and there for medical reasons, etc.

Not trying to get our hopes up or anything, but for the last few days Sheila said shes been having twinges and such going on in her uterus. Similar to the first time when she got that pelvic infection. Here we are at day 4 and so far shes not doubled over in pain...could be a good sign?? Again not trying to get our hopes up! HAHA and I quote.."there's not any pain like the first time, so I don't think I have an infection, but there is weirdness, so something is going on in there!" She also says she has pressure like she has to pee, but not really having to pee. Interesting..veryyy interesting. o.O

We shall know for sure the outcome around May 27th. Wish us luck! I just want to be done with this part of the process already!!

Sheila wants you to see this. I was hoping to be able to post this video on the actual blog, but the people blocked it from being embedded. Bummer. It'll make this blog title make more sense..

-Amity

Back in the saddle again!

So here we are again! Actually back in the saddle. We've taken a few months off to collect our thoughts and stop being so discouraged over this process. Never imagined it would be a year since we first started trying, but "experts" do say it can take a year for healthy heteros to get pregnant. I know in the last post I mentioned about good news on the horizon. I waited a while to post, so people's feelings didn't get hurt and everything could be discussed before now. Anyway, we've found another donor! We're still going to use our current donor, but now hopefully by having another sample it'll help. I know wishful thinking...I think it'll also be good because then we won't really know who the biological guy is.

Sheila is currently on day 11 and according to fertility friend she should start getting ready to pop her egg around Monday. What fertility friend doesn't know is that she took Soy Isoflavenos to help aid this processes. It's like an herbal Clomid. Take 160mg for 5 days during Aunt Flo and voila! magic eggs are supposed to form! Haha yeah right, but it was worth a try.

Hmm..what else has gone on...We bought a new pack of Clear Blue Ovulation sticks and the little digital reader thing was broken! Sheila called the company and they're sending her a brand new box! It's like $40 a box, so that was really nice.

We were nominated for a Leibster Award a little while ago thanks to our our cyber friends, Jen and Meg (who are currently in the hospital having their baby!!!)

-Amity

The Liebster Blog Award works like this:

Say thanks to the blogger who nominated you, and link back to them.

List 5 blogs (ideally with fewer than 200 followers) that you feel deserve the Liebster Award and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog. Copy and paste the award to your blog.

SO...without further ado, here are some blogs that you might enjoy.

1. Wiegand Writes
2. 2 lesbians and the journey to make a baby
3. Married life of the rich and famous
4.  Our Baby Making Journey
5. Seasoned with Love

Oops...

Kinda let this fall off the end of the internets...still no good news. Haven't been trying in the last couple of months due to schedule conflicts. Possible good news is on the horizon, so everyone keep their fingers crossed until then! Tata for now!

-Amity


In honor of it being Tax Day I give you this:

Here we are again...

I'm running out of titles that don't sound like ones I've already used......

Anyway, the time has come again to inseminate! You guessed it...last time didn't bring us a cool birthday/Christmas gift. Try, try again and again and againnnnnnnn

I've been very lazy these last 2.5 weeks and haven't put in Sheila's temperatures in Fertility Friend. She's just been using the ovulation test papers and we look at them an determine if the line is dark enough. Makes me think of this Eric Church song.. just a little different. http://youtu.be/-Q8pFqXFAtI

Nothing has been going on that's super exciting. Random people that I've friended on Facebook for games or for my business page have announced they were pregnant recently. I think they need to rub their good luck off on us! Well, not necessarily ME, but Sheila. :P

I don't think I've mentioned it on here, but we got solar put on our house the day before Thanksgiving and finally last Thursday (1.5.12) everything meshed and it got turned on! It wasn't the solar company's fault it wasn't on sooner, but our electric company. They screwed up our paperwork and then made it sound like it was the solar people's fault and then they looked at the paperwork again and was like, oh looks like we had all the correct info after all, hehe. Sorry we put you a month behind now. I'm just glad it's finally over with and now they're paying me instead of me paying them!

If anyone wants to look into going solar, you can get a referral from me and we'll both get $500 when you get your system installed. I leased my system for 20 years, so I didn't have to buy the panels because who has $30,000 just laying around?? Not me. I only pay $60 a month for them and the electric company pays me for the extra electric the panels are producing that I don't use. So far, it's up to 87kWh that SRP (electric company) has to pay me for and it's only been on 5 1/2 days! The website is www.sungevity.com, but you can only get the $500 if you get a referral. Sometimes during the year they do a $1000 for you and me referrals. It's pretty awesome..I think.

Hmmm Hmmm Hmmm I think that's about it...like I said same ol' boring people here..nothing happening.

-Amity

Funny pic: I added the WTF bubble.