# 3 and a bad cold

Not much more to say that the title didnt already give away. We did #3 this morning on my second day of peak, despite the fact that I am pretty sure I ovulated on Peak Day 1. But, it cant hurt, right?

I also seem to have come down with my annual December flu/cold. Boo! I spent the day laying on the couch reading and playing games with W and the fam. Rough :)

PEAK!!

I always feel like I won the lottery when we get a peak! I want to run around the house singing, "I have a golden ticket..." I guess it gets back to the fact that so much of this 'game' is wait..wait..wait and a peak (!) means action. I tested just before dinner last night so we did insem #2 before we went to bed. Not sure about a third, but we will most likely shoot for tonight or tomorrow morning just to be safe. Then hunker down for a new years TWW hopefully full of beach walks, sand dollars and some low-key family time.

Happy Peak to all and to all a good day!

Insem #1

Happy Holidays! I feel like there is alot of good news out there in the blogasphere these days -- what an exciting time! Cheers! Nothing too exciting on the homefront. We were really worried that I would peak on Friday (Christmas Day) but in the spirt of the holidays, I was able to hold off for a few more days. We flew into the Bay Area on Sat night and did our first insemination yesterday, after 3 days of 'high' and no peak in site. We always get nervious about 'missing it' so often are a bit overkill on the number of inseminations we do. But luckly we have an amazing KD who is willing to humor us! Yesterday was a bit of a mad-dash - after a busy day of post-christmas family-time, dinner and blah-blah, we picked-up the 'goods' and headed home for #1 of this cycle. Traffic and a new type of syring made it a less than ideal process, so I am glad we get to try again tomorrow :) Sometimes its best to just laugh, this whole process is so crazy.

Cheers to all of the good news~

Snowy Day

Its one of those wonderful all white and fluffy snowy days that you can really only appreciate on weekends. We are curled up at one of our favorite coffee shops in the Square doing some work and preparing for the weeks of holiday / family time ahead. I'm on CD 9 today, so I started the 10 days of POAS fun. I actually like it the first few days because it makes me feel so proactive. Most of the TTC process is about patience and waiting, so at least it is something that I can do. After taking last cycle off, I am really excited about getting back in the swing of things (its amazing how long 6 weeks can feel..what did I do with my life before I started counting each day??) I am really optimistic about this cycle, for no apparent reason, other than I love the holidays.

Day 1

There is always something exciting about starting a new cycle -- its so hopeful, and to a "planner" like me, its an ideal time to check out the charts and envision how the month will play out. We took last month off (as the logistical nightmare of a Thanksgiving Day ovulation was nearly impossible), so it feels like we've had a long break. I am really excited about this cycle. The timing 'feels' perfect!

Not exactly a technical genius..

So until we figure out how to add in a cool side-bar link of Our History, we will have to do it the old-fashioned way...

Its seems typical to start of by introducing ourselves, so here is a bit of background on who we are and where we are in the whole process. We moved to the Boston area two and a half years ago so that W could get her doctorate. We met and ‘married’ in the Bay Area; I grew up there and we plan to go back in a couple of years. W is from around here, in fact her parents live exactly a mile from our house, so we are enjoying being near them and friends from college for the time being.

We started this whole "process", just as you would expect an academic and a book-worm would, by taking a parenting class (at our local LGBT community health center) and reading every book in the minuteman library about alternative families. W has absolutely no interest in carrying a child and both of us are committed to adoption. We talked about domestic adoption, foreign adoption and then finally getting pregnant ourselves. We started by focusing on foreign adoption, but soon realized that our ‘legally-married in MA’ status was going to make it complicated. In the end, we decided we would try to birth a child and then adopt a second (and possibly third). We broached the subject to one of our best friends and after nearly a year of discussions, we decided we were finally ready….ready for what, we didn’t know.

Our KD lives across the country, so logistics were going to be challenging. We timed our first ‘try’ around a vacation out west. When that didn’t work, he ventured out east, unfortunately a few days too late. We tried again back out west the subsequent month and then decided to take a month off.

We are both pretty Type A, so when the baby-making didn’t work out our first two tires, we were pretty shocked, disappointed and confused. There have been a lot of complicating factors (when aren’t there), so we are trying to be patient, take deep breaths and ‘keep on trekking’…..and this brings us to the present (in abridged form) -- peeing on 10 sticks, waiting two weeks..and, unfortunately, repeating...

So here goes, my first post! [deep breath]

Why start now, you may ask, after months of stalking, urrr...diligently reading... other blogs, getting to know the main ‘characters’, lapping up all of the advice? It must be something about Thanksgiving….

I was/am still really hesitate to author a blog. I mean, its a lot of pressure to have an audience...I am generally a private person, and am certainly not witty (nothing seems worse than a ‘boring’ blog) and to be honest, I don’t know if I have all that much to add to the large dialogue. Compounding it all, is that fact that I am terribly dyslexic and therefore rely on spell check for pretty much every word (why they don’t have autocorrect in this interface is beyond me). But…after reading all of the recent Thanksgiving posts, and realizing that I too am thankful for this online community, I figured it was time to stop ‘lurking’ and contribute – at the very least, to say thank you to all of the bloggers I follow, and let you all know how much I appreciate all of the insight I have gained from you.

Ok, the real reason I decided to start posting….we _finally_ came up with a cleaver title :)