Happy Birthday

To Harley! 1 year ago today, Lady had her litter of 7 puppies.

We were lucky enough to get to adopt a little tyke from the litter.

Went drove out early one morning to West Virginia to meet Harley (although then her name was Misty) and her brothers and sisters. Our life hasn’t been the same since.

So Happy Birthday to my cuddle buddy

 

Helper on the computer

Wearer of sweaters and sweatshirts

Lover of blankets and toys

Lover of sunshine

Hogger of bed

Hater of Christmas pajamas

Chaser of Jersey

All around sweet dog with a great personality

Stretch Armstrong with chicken legs

 

Climber of tables (she doesn’t do this anymore)

  

 

Thanks Harley for picking us to be your people. I can’t imagine life without you.

Studio

I have this room. A room that when we first moved in, we painted pale green with a blue border. A room that was to be our nursery because we were going to get pregnant soon. A room that was going to hold my yarn, but soon, it was gonna be a nursery.

Over the last year, this room became the place where we just stored things that didn’t have a home. The closet is full of Christmas decorations, the floor was covered in yarn paraphernalia. It was pretty much a mess. I knew where things were, but we certainly didn’t leave the door open. Not just because it was a mess, but because the dog would eat the yarn, and the cat would use it to sleep on.

Mike asked me one weekend when we were cleaning, if I wanted to clean out that room.

I said no. It was too depressing to clean. If I cleaned it out and it was still a craft room, that meant we still weren’t close to having a baby. I wanted to be able to clean it out and it become a nursery. I didn’t go in there except to grab what I needed, or to wind yarn. It shouldn’t have all my craft stuff, it should have a baby.

Well since that won’t happen for most likely another full year (doinig IVF at the beginning of the year and then waiting 9 months, if it even works), I decided well I need to get the yarn out of the living room (Mike asked if it was taking over).

While we were at Ik.ea yesterday buying the bed part of our sofa bed, we found the desk piece that fits onto the bookcase I have in there. So we got it. Might as well move my sewing up there too so I’m not sewing on the dining room table on Thanksgiving day.

It may look unorganized but I can tell you where everything is.

Bags waiting to be finished, yarn waiting to be made into something. Scrapbook stuff waiting for..well nothing because I don’t scrapbook with paper anymore. The little cubby on the far right, second from the top-the one jam packed-that is all odds and ends from projects I’ve made. Never know when you might need a scrap.

Ok forgive the plethora of lamps on the top of this cabinet. And the gumball machine. And the random candle. And the Easter decoration that keeps finding it’s way out of the holiday bins. I was really showing off my roving (on the bottom shelf) and you can see my spinning wheel on the left side. The basket is a basket full of stuffed animals and the blankets Granny made.

Someone else wants us to have a baby ASAP

I have a feeling that other than Mike and myself, there is someone who wants us to have a baby more than anything else.

Harley as a squirrel for Halloween. It was a bit small on her though

Harley in her Christmas jammies

How cute is that puppy butt?!?!

 

Yep, we are those people. Actually, I shouldn’t say we, it’s really just me. Mike just goes along with it to make me happy.

 

I started to make her a sweater since she’s so long, none fit, but I grossly miscalculated her shoulder width and it was way too small, so I’m gonna rip it out and start that part again. It’s gonna be cute!! That one is more practical since she does shiver in the cold

Who’s the lucky gal?

And the winner is……

 

 

The Caruthers Family!  From all the way across the pond.

The finished product on the glass head. This picture makes the top looks wonky, but it’s not I promise (if you notice in the background, my cute Ikea shelving that was supposed to hold decorations has been taken over by yarn!)(oops)

Another angle

 

Anne, could you send me a note with your address either to my e-mail or on facebook? I’m going to see if I have enough to make little miss Ella a matching hat, so it might be a few days before I get it in the mail. Do you know the circumference of her head??

In case anyone cares, Anne and her husband Brian are college buddies of ours. We were all in Alpha.Phi.Omega together –a co-ed service fraternity. Brian was President when I rushed. You won’t come across two nicer people that’s for sure. And they have an adorable little girl, who from the blog looks like she has just as great a personality as her parents.

 

Congrats Anne! :)

Festival of Suck

1 CBC blood draw

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4 E2 and LH blood draws

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4 Meet and Greet with the ultrasound wand

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7 nights of injections (525 IU of Folli.stim)

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$100 in co-pays

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1 f’n follicle at 13mm on the RIGHT and none over 10 on the left

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Cancelled Cycle

 

Start your engines, IVF here we come.

 

So I’m to call on CD1 or if I don’t get a period then call after Thanksgiving to get one started. We will re-evaluate the plan and maybe start bc pills in Dec. Hopefully if we can get all our ducks in a row we can do an IVF at the beginning of the year

Since 2009 has been a festival of suck, 2010 has to be better right?

Duh

Clearly I have forgotten how to tell time. It was 2 years ago this week that I had a pregnancy breakdown, not 3.
So I guess I just celebrated my 2nd blogoversary. The start of my third year...

I really should proof-read better. :)

I'm almost done with the hat. I figured if I was doing a give-away, I should probably go ahead and finish the actual project. I have a bit of knitting a.d.d. when I'm knitting in the round without a pattern. I can surf the interwebs while knitting but then I end up side-tracked.

ok...back to knitting. I just had to post that I can't tell time

Blogoversary

Today is my blog-o-versary. This starts my 3rd year of blogging. And it doesn’t feel like I started yesterday, it feels like I started 3 years ago. 3 years ago on this day, I had a pregnancy breakdown in the parking lot at the police station because I didn’t have enough change to get out of the parking garage. That spurred me to start a blog. A journey of our road to parenthood. The first year I blogged mainly about pregnancy loss. The second year I blogged about infertility.

I’m not sure where to take this blog during it’s 3rd year on the interwebs. Hopefully sometime in the next 365 days, this will become a place for me to chronicle the journey once again to parenthood. Before that, it will probably be my place to discuss IVF protocols.

Until then, I think I’m going to focus on crafts and other happenings in our life. I’m sure I will still talk about infertility, because well, it’s what we are in the midst of right now.

So in honor of my blog-o-versary and my crafts, I’m gonna give away one of these:

Only not in that color. It will be in color 26. It’s a dark red/maroon color. The yarn is a cashmere/wool blend that is incredibly soft.

All you have to do is…leave a comment :) I will pick a random winner on Friday. So you have until then to enter.