today is 10dpo, i have cramps and for the past two days my breasts have been so sore on the sides, so this morning i looked at them and darn if there isnt a bruise on both of them on the outter side. apparently the bra i had on a few days ago didnt agree with my tata's! lol.. I am really expecting af to come within the next 4 days. i'm bummed :( but, the good news is that tami and i are going on our cruise in only 24 days. it seems like we have been waiting forever, we booked it in june! YAY.. so, that is something to look forward to, and hey, if i'm not PG then i will be able to enjoy a yummy pina colada while looking out at the ocean while on the ship :D yay!
I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe new years!!!! HAPPY 2008!

update

stupid blog. i just typed the blog and then it dissappeared.. so i will type it again.. bugger. lol.. today is 8dpo, i dont feel much of anything other than heartburn, and sometimes i get heartburn, so that is not unusual. My temps are not doing anything out of the ordinary. here is my chart http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065

we are in North Carolina visiting tami's mom and her husband and some of her aunts that live here. We got here thursday and will be going back home tomorrow.

baby dust to all, i hope everyone is having a good holiday season!

hop aboard the train. choooo choooooooooooo

I'm on the geritol train. they say there is a baby in every bottle, we shall see :) nasty icky taste, but i figure it is vitamins so it can't hurt to try!
Just got a very very positive opk. hoping tonight we will inseminate, since we are using fresh it should hang around for a few days and wait for the eggie! i'm very excited to be ttc again after the few months we had off.
i hope you are all having a great holiday season!!!! and i hope you all get what you wish for :) me? i'm wishing for a bfp this month!

baby dust donations being accepted. we accept visa, mastercard, amex, discover, pay pal and we also accept donations through magic wands! :D
update: we are not doing ici tonight, we are doing it tomorrow night.. i usually ovulate 48 hours after first positive opk so we should be good with tomorrow, wish luck :D

avon calling-correction

:) ok, i am now an independant avon rep. so, if every you want avon or know of anyone that does, please please please feel free to go to my avon site and order :D www.youravon.com/lclements

thanks girls.

Hopefully we will be back on the ttc train in about 3 weeks :) yay!!

ps-avon has a lot of nice gifts (just just makeup and skin care) and also a lot of great stocking stuffers.. i know what will be in my stocking this year

thanks for the heads up about my typo sherri :) -- i had said that i was not an avon rep.. that was a booboo.. i AM an avon rep..

well, if all goes well, we should be back to ttc this next cycle. :) dave is going to be back sometime in the next week or two i think so we should be good to go next cycle. today is 6dpo of this cycle, so i have approximately 3 weeks till i ovulate again :D here's hoping for a december bfp!

hope everyone is having a good holiday season!

thank you to shari and tammy.. lol.. would you believe we have been so busy lately with the store and homeschooling cody that i COMPLETELY forgot i had a blog?!! how insane is that?! lol.. we have been good. we have been taking a break from ttc for the past 3 cycles now due to our donor being away for work. hopefully we can get back to it next cycle. although, i really must admit that after trying non stop for a year this break is quite nice not having to deal with the stress of the tww. :) i hope everyone had a great thanksgiving!!!!!!! love you all!

how excited am i?!

YIPPEEEE.. the daytona beach news journal came to our store and did a story on us. here is a link to the story. once your there you have to click on the words "store offers products for gay patrons" to read the story.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/business.htm


yay.. on the ttc front i'm waiting for af to come which should be in about 10 days or so.. then hopefully we we will back to trying next cycle :)

i've been so bad at posting, havent i? sorry.. bad laine!! well, update is that we are not inseminating this month eitherl. dave wont be back until the beginning of november and i should be ovulating this week. maybe it will do my body good with these two months off. hopefully we can get back to it next month with a bfp! (i hope) not much else has been going on really. quite boring actually.. lol.. but i guess that is a good thing! :)

she'll be comin round the corner when she commmeeesss...

omg! this is how my day is going! just posted a HUGE blog and my hand hit some button on my keyboard and it is GONE.. all of it! GONE.. i'll try to remember what i said. .. af is on her way i can tell because i have been crabby alllll day. i feel like crying for no reason.you know, a big huge good cry! and of all days there were not sappy crying movies on lifetime. at least i'm at work today and tami doesnt have to deal with my crabbiness. i have told her when i get home i wont talk much and then go to bed so i dont get cranky with her for no reason.. lol
also, i must vent about my day at work. now, i know most people dont carry cash, i use my atm card for almost everything. but i do have a bit of change laying here and there in my car. So, today i had a sale, someone bought one thing and their total was under a dollar. they put it on their credit card. grrrr... i mean, if i buy something for under a dollar i either dig out change for it or i buy more stuff so i dont have to put something so little on a credit card. after the credit card fee's we get nothing pretty much. think we will make a policy that if something is under 3 dollars they will be charged 25cents. that way we wont have to be losing money on credit card fee's. i guess it will be ok, most places have policies regarding that anyway. oh, also i had someone exchange a bracelet for another one. said they just didnt wear it and wanted different one. so i said ok, the bracelet looked fine enough. then tami told me later she knows that the bracelet was worn. for crying out loud. why would you buy and wear a bracelet for two months and then exchange it for another one?! so, THEN after i posted that huge blog i lost it and had to type it all over again.. lol.. now do you see how my day is going?! lol.. pms pms, i hate pms. nasty grumpy monster that pms. wreaks havoc on our minds and hormones. on a happy note, tammy is going to have a beta done friday and i'm so hoping she is going to get that bfp!!!! and i am sending amy and sharon lots of prayers so that they are the ones to adopt the baby :) they so deserve it !!!!

hopefully tomorrow i'll post and not be so crabby.. lol.. thanks for reading though :D

happy tuesday

happy tuesday to everyone! today is 8dpo for me, so soon af will come and then we can start a new cycle ttc.. yay. its weird, my temps this month are same as normal, remember last month they were way different? i really think it worked last month but just didnt stick. so, i guess i know my eggs are able to be fertilized. now, to get the little bean to stick! sorry i havent been writing much, i have been trying to stay off of the obsessions on computer for a bit because i know as soon as this new cycle starts i'll be on the computer 24/7 obsessing again.. lol..

ok girls, where are all the bfp's for this month???!!!!!!!! tammy.. how do you feel? your temps are beautiful!

i've been a baaaad girl!-- UPDATE

UPDATE: well, it looks like we will be sitting this month out. he is really distracted with getting things ready for his trip, so we are going to wait until next month. which is fine because then i dont have to endure the tww this cycle.. lol.. also, that will give me TONS of baby dust to send to all of you girls and i wont have to keep any for myself :D

sorry, i have been a bad girl and havent posted in so long!!!! Today is cd 11. i should ovulate between cd 14-18. as i said Dave(our daddy) will be leaving tomorrow for two weeks for work up north. If all goes well he will be coming over to our house late tonight/early tomorrow morning (2 or 3am, the things we do for a baby..lol). We figure it is definately worth a try since fresh sperm can survive for 3-5 days. it is a better chance than NOT doing it at all this month. so, we shall see. :) dont know that i'm looking forward to yet another tww though. ugh. that stressful crazy two weeks.

on a fun note, aradia's blog the other day with the jibjab video gave me a day of fun..lol.. i sat online at jibjab half the day making video's. thanks aradia!! lol.. the link to the blog is www.tlcfamilyalbum.blogspot.com if you have any troubles getting to it, holler at me. i dont think i made it private, but just in case i did let me know. One or two of the video's wont play all the way through dont know why, but the others should be good. the one of the can can is with me, tami, cody(ds) and two of our dogs corky(the poodle) and blue (the lhasa/schitszu mix) :)

more tomorrow, will let you know if we did the AI. i'm assuming we will, but seeing as how iti s 2-3 am, i dont want dave to have to be rushing around and getting no sleep when he has to drive from florida to NH. :) send us lucky baby dust!

btw, tammy, hope the ultrasound today showed big healthy follies ready to pop :D

laine, helper of all things furry and small

so, i received this email today and i think it is such a wonderful thing for the orlando area. so, i'm asking all of you to read this and if you would like please sign the petition :) thanks!

Subject: Extreme Home Makeover Petition for Pet Rescue By JudyGuess what! Extreme Home Makeover is considering building us a shelterand we need you to sign the petition! This is what happend: Rose, the owner of the Red Lion Pub, contacted them a couple of monthsago and told them about how Judy lost her kennel due to zoning issues.They were intrigued because they had never done anything like a kennelbefore, so they asked for a video. That was a trick, getting a video ofJudy and her home without her knowing it but fortunately our treasurer,Abel, is pretty darn clever and pulled it off. Weeks went by with nerya word, then a phone call: can you get together a petition to show localsupport for Pet Rescue By Judy? Can we ever!!! And that's where we arenow. If you would like to sign the petition, please go to the link on ourhomepage, http://www.petrescuebyjudy.rescuegroups.com/. And let your friendsknow too. And keep your fingers crossed! Of course, we still need the 3 to 5 acres on which to build the shelter,but we are hoping that someone will step forward and help us in thatarea too. I don't suppose any of you know a banker or investmentcouncillor with a client who needs a tax break..... The down side toall of this is that we had to let the cat out of the bag and tell Judyabout the possibility of Extreme Home Makeover helping. She was stunnedand thrilled. And afraid to hope. But hope is what has kept her goingall these years! Let's all hope together!

the direct link for the petition is:
http://www.petitiononline.com/sep2007/petition.html

get to know laine..

well, i have decided to introduce myself :)

i was born in 1976. :D fast forward.. when i was 4 my mom and grandmother took me to new york city to try out for a strawberry shortcake commercial, we were sure i would do great because ever since i could crawl i was always singing and memorizing commercials (even to this day i sing commercials.. lol).. well, there i was, blond hair big blue eyes pretty little dress, in the waiting room, waiting to go in the room for my tryout turn, a room full of little pretty girls all with blonde hair blue eyes and pretty little dresses, we looked like a roomfull of stepford children, lol, well, it was finally my turn. i got into the room, saw myself on the teleprompter thingamajiggy, and forgot my dang lines.. lol.. oh well, so much for my acting career.

fast forward again, when i was 8 i was in a car accident, injured my spinal cord, so i am a paraplegic, luckily the injury was very low and so the only thing i can't do is walk. i dont feel bad for myself because it could have been much worse!

fast forward to 19, i got married to my "high school sweetheart". when iwas 21 i realized i was not happy and that women made me happy and "complete". i got divorced and met tami :) Cody, tami's son, was 4 when we met.

Tami and i have been together for 10 1/2 years. on september 26th we are going to have our 10th year anniversary for the day we made a committment to each other! :D

my quest for a baby: when i was married we tried and tried for a baby with no luck, after we were divorced is when he decided to tell me that he is sterile and cannot have children, but declined to tell me this (jerk!!!!!!). in 1998 when tami and i had been together for a year we decided to try to have a baby. so, i went to a RE and underwent tests, blood tests to check for everything under the sun (lol) and an HSG (i hope to never have one again, it was horribly painful).. all the tests were good, i was good to go to ttc!! yay!! well, we tried for 2 months with clomid, trigger shot and iui. no luck, after two months we decided it was too expensive so we had to put that on hold..

Fast forward to 2004- we moved to florida and decided to try for a baby again. we used tami's brother as the donor this time. our timing was kind of screwed up, well, we did that for 2 months then he decided to move 18 hours away. so, we had to put ttc on hold again.

Fast forward to august 2006.. finally we have the money to order the sperm from a sperm bank, so we ordered vials for 12 months. no luck. then we asked a wonderful friend of ours to be the daddy for us :) he agreeed, and last month was our first try with him. We think the egg and sperm met but did not implant. so, here i am on cd 2 of cycle #14 ttc (if you count all of our tries over the years then this will be cycle # 18) sometimes i feel like being pregnant and becoming a biological mother is a distant dream that may never happen. but then i tell myself that it will happen when it is meant to happen. Cody, tami's son, is now 15! i can't believe it, wasnt it just yesterday that he was 4?! we have decided that in april of 2009 if i have not conceived yet then we will try ivf. We chose april 2009 because we will have the money for a few tries at that time.

if you have gotten this far in this blog, thanks for reading :) and now you know me!!!! yay!

ugh.. cd1

stupid af.. stupid witch!! showed this morning, i'm icky feeling and crampy. But, got my hair cut this morning before work :D so that made me feel better. on we go to cycle #14 ttc. I could be wrong, but it seems like something tried to happen but it didnt stick. oh well, i shall not dwell on that. i will look forward to our next try in 2 weeks.

a special thanks for all the girls that have been my cheerleaders the past month.. tammy, cindy, aradia, shari, tami, and anyone else i forgot to mention. love you all :)

12 dpo-i'm on strike

here is today's chart http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065 i decided not to test today, i really feel like af is coming, have the cramps and my cm is watery like it usually is before af. but, i'll take any and all comments advice. lol.. also, i'm on strike.. NO AF.. af should be banned from the ttc zone!!!!!!!!

11dpo

here is today's chart, its up a tad since yesterday http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065 still way above coverline, but the cramps i have been having concern me cause they are just like af cramps, none today yet so far. i am not feeling AT ALL WELL today. have been up since 5am with wicked diarrhea.. i dont feel good at all, stomach is feeling so shaky like i'm going to vomit, but not. sorry if TMI.. lol.. anyway, af should be here between tomorrow and monday, so we shall see.. i think af has her arriving on monday but it is not unusual for me to get her a day or two early, so any day now we will know for sure. i think i might take a test tomorrow morning again if my temp hasnt fallen too low. we'll seee how i feel.

10dpo- bfn

well, we tested this morning, bfn. :( maybe too early? my temp did go down a bit today.. i have had cramps for 3 days, so either i'm implanting or af is coming early? af is due sunday or monday. what do you girls think? http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065

9dpo

well, here is today's chart http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065 i'm FREAKING OUT! had af type cramps last night, implantation?? hmmmmmmm... we are testing sunday morning.. 4 more days.. please let my temps stay up!!!!

8dpo

well, the temp spell is broken.. its HIGHER by a tad bit today :D here is the chart http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065
it is morning, so the only things i have to obsess about so far today are:
*temp a tad higher
*pimple on cheek when i woke up
*bloated

ok girls, have at it :)

7dpo and weirded out!

sorry i was mia yesterday, i was keeping busy offline. i cleaned out my closet, i must say that is a nasty job that NOONE should ever have to do..lol. not many symptoms yesterday really, dont have swollen glands anymore, just had a few weird type crampy feelings off and on. today, a bit of the same so far. but my temp has definately got me weirded out!! how do you explain it? its soooo odd!!!! here it is http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065 this is 7 days of almost the same temp! weeeirrrdddd.... and it is the same thermometer i have been using for a year.. a fairly new battery so that isnt the reason. hmmmmmmmmmm.. ok peanut gallery, what say you??

5dpo ramblings

well, i must say first that this month is not quite as hot as it was last month so i cant say that my temps have anythign to do with that. they are still up there..here is the chart http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065
what does it mean? it is soooo very different than other months, and as i have said before i have been charting my temps for over a year. below are symptoms so far today, i will update as i get more..
*woke up with a big whitehead on my face, wasnt there last night when i went to bed
*slight cramps last night when i was going to sleep
*i'm constipated, and i havent been for a few months cause i've taken the activia challenge(damn that stuff really works and its YUMMY)
*i think my bra is tight today, and it is a new bra just got last month, hm, maybe it shrunk in dryer?
*still have swollen glands on right side of neck

UPDATE: dont feel so good right now, dont know if i'm gonna vomit, if i'm hungry or if i have to take a trip to the girls room.

update on 4dpo

well, now i'm having pinchy nagging cramps lower right abdomen.. more obsessing :D

*nagging cramps
*bloated
*hot and tired
*i have been hiccupping off and on for 3 days.
* slight heartburn/indigestion
*slight headache
*still have swollen glands on right side of neck, dont feel sick or have sore throat though

4 dpo obsessions, the saga continues

here is my chart for today http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065 this is my main obsession today. if you'll look at my previous charts below this month's chart you will see how clearly different the temps are. they aren't usually so high right away. so, yep, that is my main obsession today. can you beleive that is my only obsession so far today? i will update the blog later if i have any more obsessions to add for the day :D

Thanks to all of my peanut gallery, love you gals!

3dpo obsessions

todays chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065

todays obsessions are:
*very hot and flushed today
* still very tired
*tight, bloated slightly crampy feelings in lower abdomen
*swollen glands on right side of neck
* dizzy if i move too fast
*kinda cranky feeling and all around miserable feeling, just wanna lay in bed and do nothing
*hardly any cm, usually i have tons of it
*very bloated

Those are todays obsessions :) now, there is a bug going around, our "daddy" has had a fever for a day or two, so maybe the above symptoms are in fact a bug.. what say the peanut gallery??

lets start obsessing, shall we?

ok, i have decided that i will notate on here every little obsession i have during this tww, that way if af comes in two weeks i can look back and say to myself "see, they are not real symptoms so stop obsessing".. i know i'm not alone here girls.. lol.. that is what keeps me sane, knowing everyone ttc has these same troubles. so, today is 2dpo todays obsessions are:
*my temps are super high, arent usually this high right after ovulation
*i had a 30 second crampy type feeling in my lower abdomen, left side.
*very tired and hot (did i mention we live in florida and it is SO HOT OUT)
*achy pain in my left hip area
stay tuned for tomorrow's episode "3dpo obsessions"

2dpo

so, last night tami had a dream that she brought home a little baby girl :) then today i took a nap and had a dream she brought home a baby and i was playing with her and she was so beautiful. but, i forgot to feed her for a week!!!! but she was ok, just hungry. oh my, what a dream..lol.. i'm tired today and hot and just wanna sleep. think a bug is going around. our donor is sick today, tami doesnt feel good. blah.

think i'm either 1 or 2 dpo today. here is my chart for today, i obviously ovulated.. lol.. that is a huge temp rise today. http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/46065 now into the dreaded tww. :D wish us luck. we did insem 3 days before, 1 day before, day of and day after ovulation. :D i think our timing was definatly good. hopefully it takes the first time around with fresh.

well, i'm very tired today, i didnt sleep well last night. dont feel so good today. had a huge glob of ewcm this morning that stretched like 4-5 inches! we will be doing insem tonight again, think tonight might be the last night. i MAY have ovulated yesterday. :) we shall see.. ff should give me confirmation in a day or two on that. so, today MIGHT be 1dpo..i'll update and let you know as soon as ff gives me that coverline. wish us luck!

definately positive.. this is today's opk. we did insem last night and will again tonight and tomorrow. i should ovulate either tomorrow or tuesday :)

we have liftoff

got first positive opk today at 1:53pm. here is a pic of it.. isnt it glorious?! lol.. so, we will do the sperm dance tonight and every night till i have ovulated which is usually about 2 days after.. so for the next 3 days. here are the events that were out of the ordinary that occured today. 1-a huge swarm of dragonflies were all flying around in a swirl around outside, our neighbor told me they are angels swarming around me.(she btw doesnt know we are ttc). 2-a friend of mine came by and surprised me, brought me fertility oil to rub on my wrist and belly, three fertility candles that i am to burn all at once and a little fertility goddess in a beautiful little black pouch. 3-just before she showed up with that(which was a surpise) i got the positive opk! good signs? i hope so!! also, for those that like astrology, i was born when the moon is in aries position and todays position is in aries!

well, today the opk is getting darker, closer to positive. i use the ovulation daily test strips and i almost always get a gradual increase so i can usually see the surge as it is getting closer. we did our first ai last night. will be doing another tonight, we plan on doing one every night until i'm sure i have ovulated. our donor is very very wonderful. he is a great guy. Most lesbian couples dont want a daddy in the baby's life, but we are looking forward to it. our baby will be luck to have two moms and a great dad in his/her life. lets hope that this month is the month! i have good feelings about it! Thanks tammy and aradia and everyone else that has been checking up on my cycle. you girls are like gold to us, friends i have never met but will keep close to my heart forever.

waiting

well, still negative opk, no surge yet, but i will be getting it any day now so we are going to be doing first insem tonight. :) if we do it now until i have confirmed ovulation then there should be swimmers there waiting for the egg at all times, giving us the best chance. wish us luck :)

Not much else going on really.. i'm at work, it is such a slow month. apparently noone wants to shop. must be too hot, everyone is hibernating in the ac. i dont blame them!

i am madder than a hornet! i just saw the season finale for army wives. if you have seen it, then madder than a hornet is all you need to understand.. lol.. how oh HOW will i survive the long wait?? when does the next season start?? tomorrow?? oh please..lol.. it is AGONY!

ok ok, so i'll try to digress.. lol waiting for positive opk, any day now.. :)

cd 9

we are on cycle day 9. Just waiting for ovulation now. should be anytime between monday and friday :D baby dust!!!!

YAY

af is here.. yay!! right on schedule.. 2 weeks till we try.. i'm so excited!! :D i'm fertile.. i am very fertile fertile, i am fertile, i will have big fertile healthy eggies..

any day now

af is due any day now.. :) then we are on the two week countdown to baby making time!!! i have decided temp taking after ovulation is dumb.. lol.. i will continue to do it to monitor my hormones or whatever, but we didnt try this cycle and ff gave me possibly triphasic.. how dumb.. BOOOOO.. lol..

update

well, today is 6 dpo. for reasons uncontrollable we were unable to insem this cycle. but, we will be trying this month. :) yay! i must confess taht these past two months have been kinda nice not having the stress of the tww. i'm not feeling good this week, so of course if we did try this cycle right now i would be convinced i'm pg.. lol.. i'll try to remind myself of this next month when i'm going through the dreaded tww. Lets all pray that this next cycle is THE ONE! :) thanks for all the emails and comments i have gotten. you are all wonderful! so glad we have a great online buddy system :) i couldn't have gotten through the past year without you all! so, here's some sticky baby dust to all my NW gals and online buddies!!!!

anxiety!

i should be ovulating any day now.. anytime between now and next wednesday/thursday.. I am getting so anxious! is it time yet??!!!! :D

zippidy dooooo daaaaaaa

YAY.. today is cd 2. It is the beginning of a wonderful journey! We have a wonderful person that is going to be our baby's daddy. we couldn't be happier! in 2 weeks we will start. I have good feelings about this and am telling myself that i am very fertile. i hope it is mind over matter and it will work the first month! :) i couldn't be happier! i'm contemplating starting a website. anyone have ides for the name? i'm open to ideas..

hope everyone that reads this is having a wonderful week!

it is definatly summer

it is SO flippin hot out this week! is it winter yet? lol. It has been a good week, tami and i changed our days off. now we each have 4 days in a row off. it is nice! Also, for the first time in a year i'm waiting for my period to come! the sooner it comes the sooner we can start trying to have a baby again! i have good feelings about our new venture! :) yay!

unstressful

i'm enjoying this month break. it is nice to now have that stressful two week wait wondering if i'm pregnant or not. :) i have good feelings about our new venture. life is good! now if only i could lose these pesky 20 pounds!

a new journey

well, we are taking this month off. we have asked a good friend of ours to help us have a baby and he agreed :) i feel good about the decision! so, maybe the past 11 months of bfn's was just God's way of saying that it wasnt meant to be that way. i am hoping this is what is meant to be now. so, i have a happy sense of relief and a good feeling about this. we will resume next month :)

bad news

well, af showed yesterday :( onto cycle 12 i guess.. but on a good note my best friend from high school is here on vacation until tuesday so we have been catching up and having a great time.. tomorrow we are going to seaworld. :)

13dpo

well, i'm still triphasic. no symtoms at all though. had af cramps saturday sunday and some yesterday, none today.. who knows what is goign on my my body.. i really hope this is it!!

triphasic

ff gave me triphasic today, though it gave me triphasic in december too. i dont have any symptoms or anything, but there is hope. pray with me!! :)

CRUIIISSSINNNN!!

yay, we are booked for a 3 day cruise for this coming january to the bahamas! i am so completely excited. yipppeeeeeeee! now, we will probably get pregnant and be 8 months pregnant on the trip, but i dont care! that would just be icing on the cake. on that note, today is 9dpo and nothing, nada. my temps are normal post 0. had achy cramps today like af is coming, so we shall see. but i'm happy cause we are going crusin! yay..

8dpo

well, today is 8dpo, not much to report :(

on a side note, tami and i went to orlando gay days at disney last week. we had a wonderful time!! :)

Sorry i have been bad at keeping up to date, bad laine, bad!! i will try to be better about it.

cd15 and i wait

well, today is cd 15 and still no positive opk, monitor still says low.. i sure hope this is NOT an anovulatory month.. so, i wait....

bugger!

today is yet again cd 3, af came on mothers day of all days :( onto cycle number 11.

craziness

well, tami went to dr yesterday cause she has been sick for 2-3 weeks. she may have either mono or bronchitis, we find out tomorrow morning. we have to get our pool pump working and pool filled to the top so the leak detection people can come monday, so after cleaning the filter for over an hour last night we started filling the pool then the water stopped. of course we have well water, and it seems our well pump stopped working. so we have had no water since last night. hopefully they will be able to fix it today. we have to do laundry because tomorrow we have to go to miami until sunday for the aquagirl festival. today is 9dpo for me, my temp is still up, but not above normal, and i have had cramps today a bit and am starving. i had oatmeal an hour ago and now i'm starving again for a burger and milkshake! and i'm so tired. could be pms.. booo.. i hope not!

7dpo

well, 7dpo today. not much to say really. no symptoms. have kidney pains today, dull ache, think i'm getting kidney infection or uti. ick. i really am going to be upset if this cycle is a bust.

we have been really busy. tonight we have a social dinner for the business guild. this friday we are driving to miami for a festival. i'll be happy when we have a day off to just rest.

1dpo

well, finally, today is 1dpo. good timing, hope it works this time.. not much else to write, think i'm catching the cold/flu that tami had last week. gonna lay down now.

finally

well, today is cd 17, finally had a surge yesterday morning. did first ici last night and second one tonight. so approximately 13 and 37 hours past positive opk. since i got the surge first thing yesterday morning i may have surged sometime between the night before and the morning. hoping hat i ovulate tonight or tomorrow morning so there should be swimmers waiting for the eggie :)

12 dpo

sorry i haven't written much in the past week. been kind of busy. we had two events this past weekend. Both were until about 2am. we were so tired by sunday!! I think i'm recovered now, lol. on the ttc front, today is cd 12. no surge yet, swimmers arrived yesterday. :) I should be getting my surge anytime between tomorrow and sunday. lets hope this is the month!

took two of my furbabies the the spa yesterday to get baths and haircuts, they are beautiful. and my handsome little man furbaby went to the doggy spa last week and is so handsome! :D

more later.

cd 4

swimmers are ordered! :D not much else going on today, just wanted to say my little baby swimmers are ordered.. yay.

grrrr. stupid AF anyway!!

well, today is cd 2 for me now. booooo.. i can't belive we are moving onto cycle #10. i know that God has a plan and the baby will come when it is supposed to, that is what we keep telling ourselves but it is so hard when i see young (i mean like 16 yr old) mothers at the store and i think, why??!! why not me??!!! oh well, ok pity party is over, i promise :)

tolerance part two

i almost forgot.. if you want to read about ryan keith skipper, there is a beautiful myspace page dedicated to him, if you visit make sure you have your volume on and a box of tissues!

http://www.myspace.com/inmemoryofryan07

tolerance

tonight we went to a candle light vigil in daytona for ryan keith skipper. He was viciously murdered for being gay last month in polk county florida. he was 25 years old, a college student, a wonderful person who loved to have fun and smile and laugh. My heart aches for his family and friends. We (tami and i) made a guest book for everyone at the vigil to sign and it will be given to his parents. I can only hope that his untimely death can heal in his family's hearts and maybe something good can come out of this one day. So, at the vigil there were 25 heart shaped balloons, and i was doing ok until at the end we all let the balloons go. it is just so sad. Everyone in the world has differences. and we dont have to like those differences but i think it is our place in the world to respect those differences. I think our biggest test of being on this earth is tolerance. we are all supposed to respect and tolerate the differences this world is made of.

on the ttc front, today is 12 dpo and my temp has been dropping the past two days and today i have been very cranky (sorry tam, i love ya) and weepy. so, i guess we go onto cycle 10.

10dpo

well, today is 10 dpo and i have no symptoms. nothing, nada, zilch! the sore nippies have gone away, yesterday i felt dizzy but that is gone too. my temps are not overly high, just normal post ovulation. starting to lose hope on this month. :( boo! i guess there is always hope until the witch shows.

8dpo

well, today is 8dpo. not much to report really. temp still above coverline. dont feel good today, think i'm catching a cold. throat hurts and i have been caughing and i feel rundown. Have had sore nipples for a few days, but dont know if i can count that as a sign or not as i know my body likes to play tricks on me during the tww. also my pee has been really smelly. dont know if i have a uti or not.. oh well.. off i go. more tomorrow.

7 dpo

well, today is 7 dpo. temp is up high today, but i dont really have any symptoms.

yesterday i drove home, 13 hours driving. i was so tired when i got home i went to sleep and i slept for 13 hours!! i guess i was really tired.. lol. i had a good visit at my parents house! :) but, i am glad to be home, i missed everyone here.

snow!!!

oh my gosh! so, as i said yesterday i'm in VA this weekend at my parents. woke up this morning and it is snowing like crazy.. i haven't seen snow in like 3 years.. wow.. its freeeezing but the snow is pretty. :D

on the ttc homefront, i started getting cramps low down last night, same spot i get af cramps. today i am still getting them a little bit. we'll see, hopefully iti s a good sign. today is 5 dpo.

4dpo

i'm at my moms in Virginia. my brother and his girlfriend came up for a few days from california, so i decided to come visit. drove here yesterday, 13 hours, i am TIRED still! i will be coming back home on sunday. today is 4dpo, my temp has been the same for three days, strange! dont feel anything as far as symptoms go, but then again i have been so busy the past two days so my mind hasn't had the time to over analyze anything which i sa good thing. i'll update tomorrow :)

2dpo

well, 2dpo today, not much to report. temp is 98.02 today. my coverline is 97.7. so, lets hope it stays above for 9 months

1-dpo

yay, my temp went up today which means i more than likely ovulated yesterday. we did first vial in the afternoon and another vial last night before bed. here's hoping the eggie and the spermie met :D now we wait!

happy monday

well, yesterday was a stress and a half! we are on the pride committee for this year's pride fest in daytona. to keep it short there was a button pusher that showed up to yesterday's meeting. pushed all of our buttons and caused us all to lose our temper.. grrrr.

on a happy note, today my temp is way down which means today is the day of ovulation and the swimmers are arriving today. yay. so, when they come we will do the first vial and then tonight do the second vial. then starts the dreaded tww. yikes! let this be the one!

eggie appeared

well, today is cd 12 and i got a peak reading and the eggie appeared on the monitor today. i seem to be right on schedule for ovulating monday. whoo hooo.. as i generally ovulate two days after the peak reading. yippeeeeee. :D on a personal note, i still have the worst backache today, feeling blah again.. boo :(

it's friday

it's friday, cd 11, negative opk, not much to say today really. i'm tired and i have the worst achy lower backache.. blah. my temps are still even and not all over the place like usual before ovulation. yay. let this be the month, oh pleaaaase.

it is a beeeeyouuuuteeeeful day!

well, it is a beautiful day in florida today. i love the weather, it is a shame i have to watch it out the window. boo, adulthood bites sometimes.. lol. Today is cd 10. monitor read low this morning (thank goodness..lol) cant ovulate till at least monday when swimmers come. i have been taking royal jelly and omega complex fish oil for the past week and i must say i see a difference already. first off, my body has been quite regular the past week.. lol. (i have no shame, do i?! lol.. oh well, i have learned nothing is private when ttc..lol, i know you other girls ttc will agree with me that we tell the most secret things about our bodies to those we have never met..lol) my pre ovulation temps have seemed to be a bit more even since i have been taking the pills as well. my cm is, how do i say this, less odor than previously. So i am hoping that my body is currently making a nice big healthy follie (i wouldn't mind if my body went berzerk and made more than one nice big healthy eggie!)

on an off topic note, i love my woman! she is so sweet, got an email from her that she sent from her laptop last night after i fell asleep and she opened the email with "good morning beautiful woman sleeping beside me".. awwwww.. isn't she the best?! after 10 years i'm still so much in love with her. it is indeed a happy beautiful day!

shameless plug

ok, shameless plug tami and i have a glbt store in south daytona beach, florida. we also have a website store at www.allthingspride.com visit us :D

first blog

i'm so excited to start a blog! first things first, introductions: I am Laine, 31 yrs old. My dp is tami, 36 years old. We are raising our son, cody, 14 yrs old. Tami had cody from a previous marriage. He was 4 when we got together. (yep, we have been happily together for 10 years). I am in a wheelchair, paralysis of the legs from a car accideent long time ago. I have gone through icky testing in 98 to make sure i am ok to conceive and carry a baby and all went well. So, here we are in 2007 ttc our second child (first one for me to give birth to).

we are currently on cycle #9. yikes.. seems like such a long time but really it feels like it was just yesterday that we did our first home ai cycle. i am on cd 9 right now and i usually ovulate between cd 14 and 16. The little swimmers should arrive monday which will be cd 14. hoping i dont ovulate early.. yikes. Wish us luck! :D hopefully #9 is our lucky month! more later! i'll see if i can get a picture of tami, cody and i to post here!