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!