Yesterday Jake and I got up early, really early actually. We drove the short drive to Bellingham. And got to meet our new Fertility Doctor! Dr. Branigan. Everyone in his office was extremely nice, very outgoing and some even very very talkative.
The visit was not really what I had expected. Not at all actually. I am not sure why but I always thought it would be very clinical and sterilized. If that makes sense at all. I never thought that it would be warm and welcoming.
Over the next hour or so Dr. Branigan gave us all kinds of information about girly and boy parts, what can go wrong, what can help, and what he thinks is wrong. All along the way he was making sure we completely understood, well as much as one can about all the different hormones and when the start, spike and go away. There really was a lot of information crammed into that hour.
After an ultra sound and looking at my ovaries, he thinks there might be small problem(s) with each of us. It might be good news. We are not sure, of course, at this point what is wrong. But we have some answers and an idea of where to go next.
We do have another ultra sound next week to see how my eggs mature and the swimmers are going to be tested. I am very confidant our doctor will not lead us down a road we don't want to go or a road that is not something we need. I am very excited to see what happens. I will post more later.
I'm ready to know what is wrong and get it solved.
I'm ready to have our family.
I'm ready to be a mommy.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Yard & Garden **update**
I can not believe how fast my garden is growing!!! I now know that I planted way to many plants in here. But, it is 8x8. I thought that was big enough to hold all of this. They didn't seem that big when I planted them. Oops.
I am really excited about the corn, even if my mom says its really hard to get actual ears. We will have plenty of corn stalks to decorate with in the fall!
I'm also very excited about these strawberries. There are tons of them and I was sure that I wouldn't have any fruit from it this year. Woohoo!!
Wow, my little garden is growing up :O)
On another note...the front of the house looks so much better! My mom was in town last weekend and we got the last bush out and trimmed the only we we are going to keep. I'm not sure 100% what we are going to do in this area but one idea is a deck to fill in the area in front of the door all the way out to the edge of the front room. I really like this idea, I think it will give the odd shape of that area a reason. Like it was meant to have a deck there. Another idea is to put a bird bath back by the window so Milo and Bella could watch them. But as my mom pointed out...we could do both. Have a deck and a bird bath. So who knows. I know my mom is trying to work it out so that my dad and Jake's dad can visit for a week or so and get the deck in and new floor in the kitchen and bathrooms :O)
I hope. I hope. I hope. We shall see.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
I miss my Grandmother
A little over a year ago my Grandmother passed away. I think about her all the time. And miss her very much. Tonight, while looking for some of my wedding pictures on myspace I found this and though I would share it tonight.....
I have just learned that at the first service for my Grandmother I have the honor of reading something she wrote to a cousin of my Mothers a few years ago. Here it is...
Alethe Green Clodfelter: Reminiscences of my youth
As written to a nephew about 10 years ago
.. ..
As a child I was quite shy. Perhaps one reason was that I seemed to be known as Vernon's or Evelyn's sister - or "one of the Green girls." Also with a January birthday the question was "Shall we wait until the following year to send her to school?" So I was 7 1/2 when I started school and always felt old. My mother said she felt that climbing the hill to catch the bus would be too much for me.
.. ..
My childhood was wonderful. We always had chores to do. The first responsible job I remember having was waiting at the end of the lane at the farm and putting a little rock in a pile as each cow went through the gate. I don't know if I couldn't count to 25 or 30, or if the cows spaced their going though so I wouldn't keep track.
.. ..
I remember always having a lot of relatives and friends staying with us during the summer. When fall came and everyone left it was lonely. That may be the reason I've never liked fall. School was not hard for me, yet I was not at the very top of my class. In second grade the teacher thought I read well enough that I should go on and do second and third grades that year. In 1932 I had the honor of being elected Battle Ground High School student body treasurer (there wasn't a dime to take care of in those days, so the job was very easy.) My senior year I was Vice President of the class. Apparently it didn't mean much because at the time of our 50th reunion something was said about the V. P. and I asked who it was.
.. ..
I think one usually finds a gift, or talent that one enjoys and mine was fixing people's hair. My high school years occurred during the depths of the depression and I fixed people's hair for 25 cents. I bought a pair of shoes for $1.98, a dress for $2.98 and a coat for $6.00 for graduation with the money earned. People just didn't have a dime to spare in those days. After graduation I went to Portland to spend a few days with some friends before summer work at home. Each day I would go to meet the friends when they would get off work. One day the Personnel director asked me if I'd like to work there too. Of course I said "yes", and from then on I had no help from home - and didn't need it!....
.. ..
Vacations were always spent at the farm, and I worked at the store for 4 1/2 years and attended U of Oregon night classes until I won a scholarship (small but still OK) to Beauty School. I worked during the day and went to school at night. At that time the State of Oregon required 1500 hours of work experience before one could take the State Board exams. I thought the 1500 hours would never end! It took 3 years!.
.. ..
I lived in a boarding house in Portland and a girl friend went with a young man from Newberg. He had an acquaintance who lived at the same place as he, (another boarding house) and he brought the young man to Portland for weekends. I heard the young man was somewhat different, but very bright. My friend told me that she had told the young man that I would go to the Mazama Winter Formal with him. I was quite upset, since the reports about him were not very good. I told her I wouldn't go. Well, she won, and I went! The young man was very polite, and seemed to be almost normal. His name was Harland, and I began dating him. My landlady told my mother "Harland bears acquaintance. He's all right!" I married the young man in 1938. All these years later we are still married. Yes, he really is all right, and also very bright!
I have just learned that at the first service for my Grandmother I have the honor of reading something she wrote to a cousin of my Mothers a few years ago. Here it is...
Alethe Green Clodfelter: Reminiscences of my youth
As written to a nephew about 10 years ago
.. ..
As a child I was quite shy. Perhaps one reason was that I seemed to be known as Vernon's or Evelyn's sister - or "one of the Green girls." Also with a January birthday the question was "Shall we wait until the following year to send her to school?" So I was 7 1/2 when I started school and always felt old. My mother said she felt that climbing the hill to catch the bus would be too much for me.
.. ..
My childhood was wonderful. We always had chores to do. The first responsible job I remember having was waiting at the end of the lane at the farm and putting a little rock in a pile as each cow went through the gate. I don't know if I couldn't count to 25 or 30, or if the cows spaced their going though so I wouldn't keep track.
.. ..
I remember always having a lot of relatives and friends staying with us during the summer. When fall came and everyone left it was lonely. That may be the reason I've never liked fall. School was not hard for me, yet I was not at the very top of my class. In second grade the teacher thought I read well enough that I should go on and do second and third grades that year. In 1932 I had the honor of being elected Battle Ground High School student body treasurer (there wasn't a dime to take care of in those days, so the job was very easy.) My senior year I was Vice President of the class. Apparently it didn't mean much because at the time of our 50th reunion something was said about the V. P. and I asked who it was.
.. ..
I think one usually finds a gift, or talent that one enjoys and mine was fixing people's hair. My high school years occurred during the depths of the depression and I fixed people's hair for 25 cents. I bought a pair of shoes for $1.98, a dress for $2.98 and a coat for $6.00 for graduation with the money earned. People just didn't have a dime to spare in those days. After graduation I went to Portland to spend a few days with some friends before summer work at home. Each day I would go to meet the friends when they would get off work. One day the Personnel director asked me if I'd like to work there too. Of course I said "yes", and from then on I had no help from home - and didn't need it!....
.. ..
Vacations were always spent at the farm, and I worked at the store for 4 1/2 years and attended U of Oregon night classes until I won a scholarship (small but still OK) to Beauty School. I worked during the day and went to school at night. At that time the State of Oregon required 1500 hours of work experience before one could take the State Board exams. I thought the 1500 hours would never end! It took 3 years!.
.. ..
I lived in a boarding house in Portland and a girl friend went with a young man from Newberg. He had an acquaintance who lived at the same place as he, (another boarding house) and he brought the young man to Portland for weekends. I heard the young man was somewhat different, but very bright. My friend told me that she had told the young man that I would go to the Mazama Winter Formal with him. I was quite upset, since the reports about him were not very good. I told her I wouldn't go. Well, she won, and I went! The young man was very polite, and seemed to be almost normal. His name was Harland, and I began dating him. My landlady told my mother "Harland bears acquaintance. He's all right!" I married the young man in 1938. All these years later we are still married. Yes, he really is all right, and also very bright!
Monday, June 7, 2010
IronMan Coeur d'Alene: HELP
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!
We need volunteers for the run course for both day and night shifts.
Its a lot of fun cheering these amazing athletes on to their quest for the finish line.
Please volunteer a few hours.
Iron Man is Sunday the 27th of June.
Please, if you or anyone you know MIGHT be interested...please please let me know.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Fertility here we come.
Today, on my lunch break I made a phone call. A phone call to a fertility doctor up in Bellingham. So Jake and I have an appointment at 8:30 am on Tuesday June 15th. I'm excited and nervous at the same time.
We will see how it goes...it better be worth it, full of lots of information because its going to be expensive.
Cross your fingers. I know mine will be!
We will see how it goes...it better be worth it, full of lots of information because its going to be expensive.
Cross your fingers. I know mine will be!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sparkle
This past weekend my best girlfriends and I went to see the new Sex and the City 2 movie. It was really nice to go out to dinner with just the girls and talk about girl stuff. From babies, to men, to sex, to work, to families and everything in between. It is one of the things I miss the most about living on the other side of Washington State, away from all my girls. It was absolutely the perfect 'girls night'!
But while we were watching the movie, Carrie kept talking about the "sparkle" and thinking that her and Big had lost it. Starting with the staying in every night, to having a TV in the bedroom. And it all leads to Big suggesting that they take 2 days off each week. Now not 2 days to go be with other men or women, but to do what they wanted to do away from the other. Like for Big it would be lounging around and watching TV all day long. And for Carrie it might be going out to dinner and shopping with the girls, or working on her next book.
The movie made me think...What does it mean to loose your sparkle? What does it mean if you loose your sparkle? How do you keep your sparkle alive even after 5 or 10 or 20 years?
I've heard of people who feel like the sparkle is gone and their relationship with their husband or wife is more of a friendship then a romance. Should dates stop as soon as you get married? Or within the first years of marriage? Or should they continue to be as important as they were when you first meet? Should sex be looked at differently? Should it just be something to make babies or should it be something done for enjoyment and pleasure and togetherness?
I can tell you what I think about each of these questions, but I would hope those who know me already know the answer. But what do you do if your husband or wife thinks differently? Its amazing how differently two people in a relations can feel about the questions above. And I know that sometimes you might think one thing but because of schedules and routines something completely different happens.
So, to all of you out there...what do you think? How do you keep the sparkle alive? Candles and a romantic dinner? Date nights? Vacations? Love letters? Flowers on a random day? I would really love to know.
But while we were watching the movie, Carrie kept talking about the "sparkle" and thinking that her and Big had lost it. Starting with the staying in every night, to having a TV in the bedroom. And it all leads to Big suggesting that they take 2 days off each week. Now not 2 days to go be with other men or women, but to do what they wanted to do away from the other. Like for Big it would be lounging around and watching TV all day long. And for Carrie it might be going out to dinner and shopping with the girls, or working on her next book.
The movie made me think...What does it mean to loose your sparkle? What does it mean if you loose your sparkle? How do you keep your sparkle alive even after 5 or 10 or 20 years?
I've heard of people who feel like the sparkle is gone and their relationship with their husband or wife is more of a friendship then a romance. Should dates stop as soon as you get married? Or within the first years of marriage? Or should they continue to be as important as they were when you first meet? Should sex be looked at differently? Should it just be something to make babies or should it be something done for enjoyment and pleasure and togetherness?
I can tell you what I think about each of these questions, but I would hope those who know me already know the answer. But what do you do if your husband or wife thinks differently? Its amazing how differently two people in a relations can feel about the questions above. And I know that sometimes you might think one thing but because of schedules and routines something completely different happens.
So, to all of you out there...what do you think? How do you keep the sparkle alive? Candles and a romantic dinner? Date nights? Vacations? Love letters? Flowers on a random day? I would really love to know.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Favorite quote.
So I think I have just found a new favorite quote. A friend of mine is having a difficult time with the illness of her grandmother and someone posted the quote on her facebook page. I love it.
"Beautiful pictures are developed in a dark room...So if you see darkness in your life, know that a beautiful picture is being developed by God"
What a great way to look at things. The cup is always full, right?
"Beautiful pictures are developed in a dark room...So if you see darkness in your life, know that a beautiful picture is being developed by God"
What a great way to look at things. The cup is always full, right?
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