http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/ Infertility and Adoption online interactive support community for your family-building efforts. Information and discussion includes infertility, adoption, pregnancy, parenting and surrogacy issues. en Thu, 23 May 2013 23:38:09 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/ http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/24668-embaby-transfer-tomorrow-friday.html Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:25:09 GMT Well, out of my 7 eggs, only 2 were mature and out of those 2, only 1 fertilized :( . We didn't want a lot since this is it and we didn't want to freeze, etc. but we wanted more than 1...I actually wanted twins :D .

So, we go in tomorrow at 8:30...I'll be looking forward to the bedrest! Whatever that means exactly...with 2 kids and a hubby, we'll see!! :tongue:

We have everything set for the morning...Wesley will be going to the neighbors before school. We'll then drop Tori off at my mom's. She'll spend most of the afternoon there, then Greg will pick her up.

My biggest question is our house...it's on the market and we could have possible showings on Saturday. Right now, since the market is really bad, the only showings that are being scheduled, are ones from serious buyers...I'd hate to lose a prospective buyer due to bedrest..my RE recommends 2 days....

As far as the new house goes...I drove out today and they were working on it. The foundation was poured a couple of days ago. When I got there today, they wood had come for the framing...this was about 2:15. Well, we went back out around 7:30 after we dropped Wesley off at TKD and they already had a lot of the bottom framed, and they were still working! :yikes:
Amazing how quickly these things happen!! Greg wants me to start bidding pool company's...like I want yet another thing on my plate!!

Off to have my carrot cake...my last indulgence before the ET...then only healthy foods for me :rolleyes: :D ]]> ScrappyCat http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/24668-embaby-transfer-tomorrow-friday.html http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/24930-egg-retrieval-tomorrow-tuesday-25th.html Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:09:58 GMT Well, it's finally here. And so much going on to boot! I was so nervous about my Hcg shot last night...I had to get it at 10:00 pm and around 8 I was just restless. I went and layed down as I didn't want to do anything else!

Tori is sick...took her to the dr today. She has hand, mouth, foot disease. Just what I need right now, right? Mom is coming to watch her tomorrow as she can't go to MDO till Thursday now. She's also missing Dads with Donuts :( . Just as well, I need to be at the dr at 9:30 anyway. Greg was going to meet me there after dads with donuts and we were going to have mom take me.

The retrieval is at 10:00. Then we'll see what happens. So nervous. To think in a week I'll be preggo...no negative thoughts here! I've been eating like crazy to...fattening up so the baby will have plenty of cushion :D

Okay...off to nap while Tori is...she probably won't stay down long! ]]> ScrappyCat http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/24930-egg-retrieval-tomorrow-tuesday-25th.html http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/27325-feeling-nervous-weepy-awful.html Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:41:47 GMT We're officially cycling for IVF. I'm currently on BCP's. I've had 2 U/S's both being good. I go in on the 29th for my biopsy then I start Lupron.

We've never done this before. With Tori we did injectible IUI's, so I'm used to sticking myself...I'm just very nervous about the whole thing. Because of personal convictions, we don't only want to implant a few. We don't want to freeze either, because this is it. Another baby (or twinkies!) and that's it.

I think the BCP's are making me more emotional than I should be! I totally got after ds today, and I couldn't stop....just kept going on and on. He was very appreciative (we talked about being grateful, etc) for the rest of the day!!

5 minutes ago I knew exactly what I was going to blog, but now my mind is just a jumble...more later I guess. ]]> ScrappyCat http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/27325-feeling-nervous-weepy-awful.html http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/38214-elises-valentine-surprise-pics-included.html Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:28:41 GMT Well, as usual, my LA friends came through in abundance! I received so many wonderful things to give to Elise on Valentine's day. When I called my SIL to tell her, she cried on the phone!

I think the mailman was a bit ticked! One day I had boxes and boxes at my door. I was so excited till i realized they weren't for me!!!

Health wise, Elise is doing better...for those reading but don't know her story: She's my niece who was diagnosed with Leukemia when she was 2 (just turned 3 actually). She had a bone marrow transplant in November. She's confined to her house or the doctor's office...that's it...no stores, no friends, nothing. She went to the doctor on the 13th and her numbers are looking good. They are back on the rise, so the bone marrow transplant did work (fingers crossed/prayers continued).

I still have things that are coming in the mail for her, which is great! I'll make another run over next week sometime with load #2!!!

I put the gifts that were bought for her in individual bags (Christmas ones, but who notices?) and put all the valentines in a bag that I decorated with stickers so she could have her own just like her brother.

Here are the pics:

1.) the empty boxes!!!
2.) bag of Valentines
3.) bags of goodies from y'all out there reading this!!
4 and on....Elise, Elise, Elise!

As you can see you made one little girl very happy. I wasn't sure what kind of reaction I would get. She tires easily and has totally changed due to all the radiation (cranial and full body) she had to receive in order to have the transplant. She was so cute...one of the things that has happened as well as her changed personality is her taste buds have changed...but she said as she was going through everything and saw the chocolate: My taste buds didn't change for chocolate!! I don't think she was planning on sharing with anyone!! :D Her hair is starting to grow back...it's itty bitty fuzzies right now, but they are so soft!

Thanks again my friends for making one little girls day EXTREMELY special. :hug: :hug: :hug:

Okay, so I don't know how to upload pics! You can view the pics here on the LA thread!

http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/foru...39#post4526239 ]]> ScrappyCat http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/38214-elises-valentine-surprise-pics-included.html http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/38488-im-stuffed.html Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:51:42 GMT We went out for V-day dinner tonight. I'm doing WW and my weigh in day is the day after V-day. I told DH I did not want to weigh in after eating a huge dinner, so we went out early :D

I ate WAY to much. I'd been waiting and waiting for this day and just over indulged :sick: I was planning on exercising as well tonight, but my tummy still hurts!!!! I was hoping to lose a pound this week, but now am just hoping for maintaining my weight!!! The over indulgence explains why I gained 15 lbs from Halloween till New Years! I'm 2 lbs away (or was before tonight) from having it off, then moving forward and I just ate, ate, ate, tonight!!!

Now, a dilema...I'll probably post this on the LA board in a few weeks. My SIL made a comment a few weeks ago about her baby shower. I gave her some things of T's since she's expecting...I mean some EUC expensive things. Then she made a comment about what people will get her at her baby shower since she has so many things now. Let me mention now that I gave my other SIL a bridal shower. She's from a different state and nobody here would have given her one if I hadn't stepped up. So, back to my other SIL. When she made that comment, I had to wonder...who is giving her a baby shower? I sure hope she doesn't think it's me. I've never mentioned it before to her. Maybe her boyfriend's mother is...I don't know...but I sure hope she isn't thinking it's me!!! Is that awful of me or what? She's due in the summer.

Back to Valentine's day...do you get your kiddos gifts? We always have...I need to go shopping for the kids tomorrow. Of course I'll have one with me, but she won't know any better! I already bought DH somethings, just need to wrap it! I can't wait...I'm a huge kid when it comes to gifts myself :D

Oh, update on my neighbor...I mentioned before her son was going into the army and her moving and such...well, there is a For Sale sign on her lawn today. Now, I consider her a good friend and I've been asking and asking her about moving and she's alway said no. Then boom, a For Sale sign. She didn't even have the nerve to tell me. I'm really hurt by this. Mainly because I've been asking her. Another friend of ours (ex-neighbor) is her realtor. She's been over quite a bit last week and at one point I even asked why and she made up some lame excuse...now I know it's because she was taking pics and stuff. This makes me really mad. I haven't confronted her about it yet. Not sure when I will... ]]> ScrappyCat http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/38488-im-stuffed.html http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/38991-another-lonely-day.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:22:14 GMT Well, the weekend was great. Greg was actually home. Did I mention he was/is working horrendous hours? The past two weeks I was part of the *single mom* club and let me tell you it sucked!! I don't know how anyone chooses to do that voluntarily...hats off to them I guess.

Wesley is in Taekwondo, and he's a black belt. That means his class is M/T at 7:30-8:15 and Tue 6:45-7:30. Tori goes to bed at 7:00...can you see where I'm going with this? If Greg isn't home to take him or pick him up, I have to find someone to help me out and I HATE doing that. I have a neighbor who is herself a single mom, but her kids are grown and in college, more on that later! Anyway, I have to call her up and ask her to come down so I can have a warm body here while Tori is sleeping...I'm not even going to get into how much the kids miss their daddy! Anyway, Greg assured me it was only two weeks, well, here it is Monday, 11:21 pm and I'm sitting at the computer while he's still not home. But, he did say the good part is things will settle down from here.. :rolleyes:

Okay, back to my neighbor...she has one totally overachieving daughter who is on a full scholarship at Texas A&M (great college here, about 2 hours away). She's a sophmore. Her son on the other hand did 1 semester of college on a full 4 year ROTC scholarship and decided he loved ROTC so much that he enlisted in the Army. They drop him off tomorrow (her and her ex) at his hotel. Well, actually they are taking him to dinner, then dropping him at his hotel. The recruiter will then pick him up in the morning and escort him to the plane, where he will then fly to Georgia for his basic training...9 weeks of basic training. I couldn't imagine that. She assures me she's fine, but I know I wouldn't be, so I doubt she is.

Her daughter was accepted as an intern for the summer at local church but the catch is she has a host family she has to live with! So my friend/neighbor is truly an empty nester. I feel for her because while my loneliness is only temporary, hers is kinda permanent. I also have my kids till 7:00 and 8:30 (bedtimes) and once G is gone tomorrow, she won't have anybody. Her daughter has an apartment at her university, so she rarely comes home. I know she was thinking of moving to Austin to be near her parents and brother, but I don't want her to leave...

On that sad note, I'll sign off for tonight. ]]> ScrappyCat http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/38991-another-lonely-day.html http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/39202-giving-blog-thing-try.html Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:05:27 GMT Okay, here it goes :D . I guess I'm officially a blogger. This will be good for me. I've tried the journal thing, but pen to paper bores me! I love the computer, so maybe this is what I need.

I'll start with my day. We went to the Children's museum today with our playgroup. T had a fabulous time. She just loves crawling through tunnels and such. She had fun looking at the aquariums and dinosaurs! We then ate at P.F. Changs. It was good, but I wish I had ordered something different. I ordered the LoMein, so that T could eat off of my dish. Had I truly thought it out, I would have as for just a side of lomein for T and ordered something much more healthy for me. Turns out I wasted too many points (WW) on that meal and it just wasn't worth it.

G is still working late. I was hoping he'd be home tonight. We really miss him. W and I watched a movie, Garfield 2, after I did my step aerobics. I wasn't going to do it because I was hoping G was going to be home, but since he wasn't I did it.

I think I'm going to go catch up on my Grey's Anatomy! I have them taped and hadn't watched them because I missed one, but then decided that was crazy, and started watching them yesteday. Now I'm hooked again!

I signed T up for MDO for next year today at one of the preschools around here. I went yesterday to get the form but the director had left and the secretary told me to come back today at 9:00. So, we did. At 9:20 I went and asked her what time registration actually started and she called the director's assistant and was told from 10-12. :rolleyes: Anyway, I told her I had to leave because we had to be somewhere at 9:45 and she took all my information and my registration check and told me she would fill it out for me and put it in the right spot! That was really sweet of her to do and I was totally excited! She felt bad for telling me 9:00 the previous day!!

There is another one that has open registration on Monday. I'm going to sign her up for that one too and see if we get into either of them...the one on Monday can be done online and you don't pay your registration till you have a spot. That's good!

Well, that's all for tonight. We have a super busy day tomorrow so hopefully I'll stay sane!! ]]> ScrappyCat http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/blogs/scrappycat/39202-giving-blog-thing-try.html