Christmas

We spent Christmas with Adam's family. We had a great time! It even snowed in Alabama on Christmas! It was the first white Christmas since 1989!

And now... for some pictures...

Merry Christmas All!

CONCEIVE!

I went to my OB/GYN annual appointment yesterday. The appointment went well despite it beginning by a miserable 15 minutes in the waiting room SURROUNDED by pregnant women of all ages, shapes, sizes,  etc. The girl sitting beside me was 37 weeks pregnant with twins, and she looked miserable!

There was this random older lady that started quizzing the super-preg beside me. She ended her conversation by looking at the pregnant lady and saying, "I'm here for a mammogram, it's obvious why you're here," then she looks at me and finishes by saying, "what are you here for? Are you expecting too?" I just looked at her and calmly said, "Pap smear." She shut up.

My blood pressure was good 110/68, my weight was good 189 (with boots, jeans, tshirt, and a sweater on). My doctor was VERY pleased with my 5.8% A1c (even though my Endo hates it being that low). So, then we got down to business and talked about the TTC mess.

Basically the moral of it is, "If at first you don't conceive, try and try again... for a year." Now, I wasn't at all surprised by this, in fact most sites, books, magazines, forums, etc. say that you should try to conceive for 1 year before seeking fertility assistance. I was just a little unsure. It is just hard to try and try again for something and expect something to all-of-the-sudden be different. I believe that that might actually be Albert Einsteins definition of insanity in fact. Anyways...

She said if after a year of trying we still are coming up short, she will look into things further. Sperm analysis for the dear husband, and a laproscopy for me... surgery isn't on my current things I want to do list, so I'm good with waiting for a while longer.

As I was leaving the appointment she handed me some magazines to take with me. One of them was titled "Conceive." It cracks me up so much... like it's a declarative statement. OK, I say... I'm working on it!

I think it went well, all in all, and I guess I left there no better, no worse than when I went in. At least the Pap is over for this year! Anyways, I believe that God works in his own time, so I'm gonna just try to trust Him to take us down the path that He has laid out for us.


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(On a side and totally unrelated note... I went to Surin West today for lunch, anyone want to guess who my server was... Christina? Rachel? I think you ladies might have an idea... Gabriel. It was way weird, and he was so CREEPY. As he handed me the check he said, "Holy SHIT! You're married!" Um... yeah. )