Going To The Home Land

It is official! Purchased the tickets for the Oct. 31st Chiefs v. Chargers game in Kansas City, Mo.  I am so excited for this trip! We are staying longer than 2 days like our typical turn around trips. We are flying on Saturday morning and not coming home until Tuesday. I have been Google'ing and researching all the things I want to do and see while we are there.

I definately want to go to a real pumpkin patch. Since we are going to be out of town for halloween we have to celebrate it there. I can't wait for a traditional hay ride, although I heard they are extremely uncomfortable and a better idea than actuality. I got some brochures on different farms and am so excited to go pick a pumpkin and go through the corn maze!

Kansas City is also the city of fountains so I think we are going to do a walking tour of parts of the city to see all the different kinds of fountians.

We are also going to go to a tour of a hometown brewery, tour the Harley Davidson factory, and hopefully take a tour of the Arrowhead Stadium on a non-game day. We are so excited for this vacation. This will be our first real vacation since our honeymoon. We are calling this our anniversary trip.

I am excited to be out there and be able to go into a Wal-mart or Target an actually buy Chiefs gear. Living in California makes it difficult to get anything and usually have to resort in buying over the internet. This typically isn't such a bad thing unless you want to try something on! We are definately going to get our annual Christmas ornament while we are in KC as well.

The countdown begins! 87 days until we depart!!

Watching The Clock...

I feel like that is all I do these days... I watch the clock at work waiting for the time to go home. I watch the clock at night when I toss and turn all night, hoping I don't sleep through my alarm and am late for work. Watching the clock and doing the countdown to get my degree and finish school. Watching my biological clock since this conception process is taking way longer than expected.

And the worst wait of all... the time between periods when you are dying to take a pregnancy test to see if your efforts paid off but instead you just wait and count the days!

Quick Update - POSITIVE!

So this morning I got my first actual positive OPK!! Now we have to BD a lot and hope for the best. Pregnancy test to be taken around August 10th.... the waiting kills me!!

Peeing in Mini Cups

This morning I got my first almost positive OPK so I think we are on the right track. For the last 9 days I have been only getting the one test line to appear. This morning the ovulation line started to barely show. It isn't darker than the test line so I know I am not ovulating but I think my body is responding well to the Clomid. Hopefully if timed right we will have a BFP HPT by the end of this month!

Daily Thoughts of Someone Suffering from IF

I saw an awesome video made by a fellow IF sufferer whose blog I stumbled upon...

http://vimeo.com/keikozoll/whatif

LOVED IT!

CD 9 - Last Clomid Day

So I have taken my last pill for this first cycle of Clomid and I keep thinking to myself... am I supposed to feel something? I thought I had a hot flash a while back but was probably all in my head and most definitely due to the temperature outside. So as I sit here I am pondering what I am exactly, if anything, supposed to feel. I haven't experienced any real symptoms: no blurry vision, mood swings out of normal, dizziness or hot flashes. So how do I know this stuff is working?

Also, peeing in a cup daily to insert little OPK sticks is definitely not my idea of fun either. I was told to do it daily through this entire cycle to track for next cycle if this one isn't successful. So here I find myself daily straddling the toilet aiming to get pee in this mini cup that comes with the cup... again not my idea of fun but totally worth it if this stuff is going to work!

Now that I have taken the last dose its time to wait, which of course is the hardest part! Hopefully between the Met and the Clomid my cycles will "normal" and I won't have to wait even longer to start the next cycle of IF meds.

Is this a heat wave....

or a hot flash? Ok, I don't know if it is all in my head because I am taking new medication or if there really is a heat wave. It is 8:30 at night and I am still sitting in my living room sweating. Ugh. I love summer and I will miss it when fall gets here but I can't wait for it to cool down!