Well hello! It's been a little bit since I've stopped by. There's been SO much going on, I'm not sure where to start.
My parents & brother just left after being here a week for Thanksgiving. We had an absolute blast! We made gingerbread houses and went to Occoquan and the National Zoo (we saw a cheetah fight between 3 brothers....very cool...and scary for about 3 seconds) - those are just the highlights. Sometimes I hate having people visit, not because it's an inconvenience or anything, but then it makes me miss them so much more when they leave. It's easy to stop missing them so much when it's been 6 months, but the fresh missing isn't fun. And who knows when we'll get to go home again...
It's almost Christmas! I have half the presents bought and the other half are planned and budgeted - just waiting for the money to appear on the tree outside to purchase them. Ha! Hubby's getting a gun - I told him I was willing to splurge on the one condition that he keeps my freezer full of meat. I figure if we spend a few hundred on a gun, he (theoretically) could save us MANY hundreds on meat. Maybe I'll start using venison as our main meat instead of chicken. Mmmm.
And of course, the main focus of my life has been baby-makin.
FAIL.
I absolutely can't seem to get pregnant. I think we're going to stop trying for the next few months - probably until after February - and just let things take their course. No more charting or stressing or planning. I need a break! After my birthday in February, I'll start charting again and if nothing by April/May (which makes the big, ugly, scary ONE YEAR mark), then to the doctor I shall go. In the mean time, I'm going to try to lose as much weight as possible. I don't have a real goal in mind (ok well kinda...) but just as MUCH as possible. Cause I definitely need my starting point to be as small as possible so I don't look like a tank/whale/ship/ whatever if/when I actually get pregnant. I want to have a basketball pregnancy....
My most recent reads,
Something Borrowed & Something Blue by Emily Giffin
are some fabulous books that Lindsey (find her blog here) recommended I read. In the second one, the main character is pregnant (what a surprise....) and she's super vain and is determined to have a "basketball pregnancy". This is where you remain a perfect stick and just look like you put a basketball under your shirt. I could only hope......
So...that's pretty much my current life in a nutshell. Boring, eh?
