RC 1*CD 22

Yeeeehawww! I finally got a high reading on the FTMT today and yesterday. I thought I would never O!!

Christmas was great! We celebrated over the weekend at BJ & Small's house. Both Moms were there too! We were ready to inseminate if we needed to, but to my disappointment, my body said "Bah Humbug!". I think we were able to get by the whole weekend undetected, although MIL might have had some suspicions. One morning she woke up to the 4:30am temp alarm and asked me if I had set it to go off at that time. I replied "Yes, but I accidentally set it too early!" Hee Hee Hee! Also at Xmas eve dinner, she thought it was weird I wasn't having any alcoholic beverages (we like to party together). I just told her I was recovering from an old hangover. But I think I put that one to rest when DP served us up some purple hooters (me included)! She had stealthily added blackberry torani to mine instead of the alcohol! It looked just liked the others (tasted pretty good too), so no one had a clue! I had a blast with that one!!

So we are set to do the BD tomorrow and the next day! Maybe we'll bring in the new year with a little firecracker!! Hopefully I will get a peak reading on those days!! FX!

RC 1*CD 16

*SIGH* I was very disapointed this morning when I got a Low on the FTMT (I also fit too snuggly in my fat jeans, but that's another sotry)! I had lots of creamy CM when checking this morning, but when I checked agian later I had EWCM(bout .5 inches)??? This is soo confusing! No matter how much I read about the signs, I still can't seem to predict when and what will be happening next. Maybe I should just stop analyzing so much into it and just go with my gut feeling! HA! Me? Not do any research? RIGHT! That would take a lot of will power.

*sing* "Oh where oh where can my little egg be? Oh where oh where can it be?"

RC 1*CD 15

I was super excited to find out yesterday that my CM is turning watery!! I didn't think I would get this excited, but just the thought of trying to get pregnant puts butterflys in my belly! Even though I know the odds are aginst us, I still can't help but feel hopeful that it might happen on the first try. My FTMT is still at Low though. :( So now I am thinking I may not O around xmas but maybe the week after! See! What did I tell you, if I try to predict it, just to drive me crazy, it will happen at some other time. Maybe I just get too excited.

The Moms at work were talking about how artificial corloring, especially red and yellow, will cause some kids to go crazy hyper active. I found it very interesting. So I tried to do some research about it online and here is an article I found:

At age four, Tina Kleiber's son Derek began having problems with his
behavior.
“He would become very emotional, cry at the drop of a hat.” At
other times Derek would become very angry even aggressive. Years later, Kleiber
noticed the mood swings in her daughter Brandi as well.
“She would throw
fits- lay on the floor- kick and scream,” Mrs. Kleiber recalls.
After some
research Kleiber figured out her kids' moods changed after eating food with
artificial coloring- specifically red and yellow.
“It's a hard thing,” says
Kleiber, “because you tell anybody about it and they're like, ‘Colors? How in
the world are you allergic to colors?' And I say allergic because it's so much
easier than going down the line of everything it can do to them.”
“[Children] may have hyperactivity; they may act differently; they can have
a rash; they may have problems with vomiting or diarrhea,” explains Dr. Stan
Cohen, a pediatrician with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Medical experts
say food dyes can affect a small percentage of kids but stop short of
conclusively linking it to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
“It has
not been shown consistently that every child with ADHD has problems with food
dyes, nor that every child that has problems with food dyes has ADHD. But there
is a population of children that has both ADHD and a reaction to food dyes,”
says Dr. Cohen.
He adds that food dyes are regulated by the Food and Drug
Administration and for most kids are perfectly safe. But he points to a larger
issue: the food itself.
“The real problem with these food dyes is that they
make these foods more palatable so that they're more exciting when in fact
there's better food out there that is colored all the time- they're called
carrots and vegetables and fruit.”
As for artificial dyes, Tina Kleiber
removed them from her kids' diet following a program developed by the Feingold
Association- a non-profit organization that helps families concerned about food
additives.
Kleiber noticed an immediate change in her son and daughter.

“Within three days of not having any of those colorings in his system
he was normal,” she says. “You can actually see it happen- you can see when they
change and that feels good. It feels good.” link to this article

Wow! Who would have thought!!

FX that I get a high reading tomorrow!!

RC 1*CD 9

Recovering today from the Peppertree xmas party! Super fun! Everyone says that's the best xmas party they've ever had! Drinks and bowling, my kind of party!

Still just twidling my thumbs waiting to get closer to O. CM is creamy. FTMT low.

I learned to today on the FF board, that if I drink soy milk from CD 0-8, I might be able to O earlier. I think I will try it next cycle (if there is one, FX)! Sometimes I wish my cyle length was a tiny but shorter (only during TTC). Doesn't hurt to try something new. Could be an old wives tale, but heh, what the heck!

RC 1*CD 6

Not much to report today, except that once again I am in a bah humbug mood! I think it's because I woke up late and had to rush to work! And of course, once at work, I noticed I had a medium sized hole in the inner thigh of my jeans, NICE!!!

Still getting over AF, I think she will be leaving today. yipee.

This weekend I took some photos of my friends prego belly. I got the colored ones back but I'm still waiting for the B&W (very excited to see those). There were maybe 3 good ones! I've decided I don't like my fogger lens all that much. Maybe I have to play with it more to get the effect I want.

Note to self: After reading my posts, DP informed me that she loves Rootbeer, just not Barq's!

RC 1*CD 2

I wish my cycles were predictable!! It would make it so much eaiser for BJ! I was just trying to figure out today when I think I wil be having O. If I take my average cycle length of about 34 days then count back the luteal phase (which is usually 15-16 days), that would put us right at about December 25th or 26th! It always sems to backfire when I try to plan the timing, but it's so hard not to!

Aie!! The family is going to be here. We're going to have to be super stealth to pull that off with them all down staris! HAHAHAHA! I'm sure we can devise some kind of game plan. At least we'll already be at BJ's house.

We are trying to keep it a seceret this time. It was just so hard when everyone knew what we were doing and have to tell them about the BFN each month! Took it's toll. I like it much better this way. People aren't constantly asking me how I'm feeling and I'm not babbling my mouth off about those phantom pregnancy symptoms (makes you feel real dumb when that test comes up negative LOL).

RC 1*CD 1

Yipee! AF is finally here! We are offically on round 2 cycle 1!! It seems like forever since the last inseminations. Wow it's been a little over 2yrs. We had charted I think 6 cycles and had tried on 3 of them all resulting in a BFN :( . After reviewing my charts I could see that on 2, our timing was horrible! Horrible! 1 way too early the other way too late! We did manage to get one right on the dot, but I guess the little bean wanted to wait.

"We are ready for you now little bean! Please come to live with us!!"

I don't think I have ever been this excited to see AF! I feel like a total wacko being this extatic! So on to the scrutinizing over CM and ovulatory pains! Hip Hip Horray!!

Well, well, well! I have found the culprut to my crazy awful headache! When DP and I bought lunch on Sunday, she had orderd a Coke and I a Sprite. Well upon returing home she discovered it was rootbeer (she HATES rootbeer), so I offered up my clear bubbly beverage for hers. I found out that Barq's rootbeer really does have bite! I had nooo idea it had any caffeine in it (while growing up, rootbeer was always on the parental approved list). It is the ONLY rootbeer which contains caffeine, hence the catchy slogan. Yup, I'm a little slow. No more Barq's bite for me!

I have the hugest headache today!! It feels like I'm going through caffiene withdraw, but i couldn't be since I have given up that guilty pleasure! We haven't even started cylce 1, yet I can't think of anything else but that!! Must find other things to occupy my mind...good luck.

RC 0*CD 38*DPO 14

My weekend was sooo yucky! I was in such a bad, horrible mood! I feel bad for J. I was a little more than a pain! I can't wait until AF is here! I hate the mood swings! I have such horrible ones. Not very optimistic today, everything seems gray and cold. Life seems hard right now. I just want to curl up and sleep all day! POOPY!

RC 0*CD 34*DPO 10*

Well, today I am just trying to paitently wait for AF to arrive. I am soo excited to start trying! I feel as if AF is near becuase I definately feel edgy, angry and depressed! Great mood for such cold weather!!