My Weekend

The demo went really well. I was shocked - I always get so nervous whenever I have anything at my house - I just want everything to go smoothly and for everyone to enjoy themselves. But more people showed up than I thought and everyone had a nice time - the food was good and everyone liked the Southern Living Items - I got over $ 100.00 in free stuff - which was very nice. But I do not think I will have another demo again any time soon - it is so much work.

Trying to Keep Busy

This is a break cycle for me - which I really have a love/hate relationship with - I love it because I am off all the meds and I feel normal - not bloated or tired and I do not have to keep up with all the appointments and make up all my time from work - my life goes back to normal somewhat but then I hate it because I feel like we are at a standstill - that we are in limbo - that I should be doing something. Either way - it is still emotionally draning - it is something that is always in the back of my mind and I am sure it is in the back of DH's mind too. So to try and keep myself busy during my break cycle - I decided to have a Southern Living at Home demo. It is my very first demo and it is tomorrow - I have about 12 people coming and I hope everything works out well. We do not have the bigger house so I am worried there may be a space issue. I plan on going food shopping tonight and cleaning all morning tomorrow - it starts at 4pm. They have really good deals this month so I am hoping to get a few things for myself as well.

Here is a recent picture of us with our friends - it was taken at a St. Patrick's Day party at a friends bar. John insisted on growing out his facial hair because it comes in really red and he thought he should look the part for St. Patrick's Day - he has since shaved.

I made an appointment to speak to the RE

I have an appointment on April 7th to speak to him since I have not seen him since he told us our diagnosis back in Oct. and I do not think that is right and second - I think there is something more that can be done - maybe have me on a higher dose of Clomid or on a low does of injectable drugs or on both Clomid and injectable drugs to better our chances - I have to fight for this - I do not think they are doing what is right for me - they almost messed up my last cycle - I just want to better our chances. I am going to make an appointment to speak with him sometime in April. Maybe he will suggest a few more cycles of IUI's with injectables or something - before moving on to IVF - since John numbers keep increasing - I just need to speak with him in order to ease my mind and make sure I am doing everything possible for us to have a family.

Very First Post

Hello Blogoshere,

My name is Jackie - and this is a blog of all things TTC. Me and my husband John have been TTC for 20 months now - wow - 20 months - I cannot believe it. We have done two IUI's so far - both of which were negative. We are on a break cycle for the month of April and will do our third IUI in May.

A little background

Me and John met on a blind date on January 8,2000, I was 18 and still in high school and he was almost 24. He moved into my apartment after my mother passed away in Ocober 2000, only 10 months after we first started dating and we have been together ever since. We got engaged on August 31, 2002, one week after my 21st birthday. We brough our first house in March 2005 and we are still trying to fix it all up, it is alot of work but it is slowly and surely getting done. We got married almost 4 years after we got engaged (no one thought we were ever going to get married) on June 24, 2006, of course with my luck it rained on our wedding day - but it still turned out to be a great day. I went off birth control pills the day of our Wedding and we officially started TTC in September 2006 - it has been a long hard road but we are getting through it and one day (hopefully soon) we will have a baby.