It feels great to return to my normal routine. As much as I adore traveling and exploring, I love my day to day life just as much.
These days, my life is full with dog walks, working, cleaning the house and ovulation kit testing.
It's a little odd to be talking about trying to get pregnant but it also feels liberating, in a way. We want to get pregnant very much but it's no longer followed by, more than anything.
There are a couple of factors not working in our favor. The first is our age. Forty is awfully late to be trying to get pregnant for the first time. I don't recommend reading up on the trouble with your eggs after forty unless you are ready to sigh heavily. Basically, eggs kinda suck after forty but really, who can blame them. You're born with an infinite number of eggs and the ones left at this age are over it. They are ready to dream another dream or get fertilized. Second, I'm infertile. So that's not gonna make it easy.
I don't produce progesterone and without that I won't ovulate. I take an oral progesterone to balance my estrogen (unopposed estrogen put women at high risk for breast and ovarian cancers) but it's not a form of fertility treatment. Just recently, I started taking Clomid and that will get me in ovulation mode, I hoped.
And....I'm ovulating.
There were several methods for predicting my ovulation. Let's talk about the one I will not be using. The cervical mucus discharge one. Nope. No thank you. I have no interest in analysing my discharge. I'll pee on a strip thankyouverymuch.
The liberating part is that we are both completely at peace with not getting pregnant if it doesn't happen for us. I'm not sure how much further we are going to go into the fertility treatments but for right now, we are content.
My catch up melts from the last few weeks:
These days, my life is full with dog walks, working, cleaning the house and ovulation kit testing.
It's a little odd to be talking about trying to get pregnant but it also feels liberating, in a way. We want to get pregnant very much but it's no longer followed by, more than anything.
There are a couple of factors not working in our favor. The first is our age. Forty is awfully late to be trying to get pregnant for the first time. I don't recommend reading up on the trouble with your eggs after forty unless you are ready to sigh heavily. Basically, eggs kinda suck after forty but really, who can blame them. You're born with an infinite number of eggs and the ones left at this age are over it. They are ready to dream another dream or get fertilized. Second, I'm infertile. So that's not gonna make it easy.
I don't produce progesterone and without that I won't ovulate. I take an oral progesterone to balance my estrogen (unopposed estrogen put women at high risk for breast and ovarian cancers) but it's not a form of fertility treatment. Just recently, I started taking Clomid and that will get me in ovulation mode, I hoped.
And....I'm ovulating.
There were several methods for predicting my ovulation. Let's talk about the one I will not be using. The cervical mucus discharge one. Nope. No thank you. I have no interest in analysing my discharge. I'll pee on a strip thankyouverymuch.
The liberating part is that we are both completely at peace with not getting pregnant if it doesn't happen for us. I'm not sure how much further we are going to go into the fertility treatments but for right now, we are content.
My catch up melts from the last few weeks:
Faves from above: (Enchanted Candle Co - this is halloween) (RG - pie crust / harvest bake sale / apple butterscotch cake) (RG - cool beans)
Beezy-Tarts - pink sugar cookies
Beezy - lavender sugar cookies
Candles by Victoria - marshmallow campfire
Candles by Victoria - trix are for kids
Candles from the Keeping Room - sunrise delight
CFTKR - kiwi strawberry
Daphne's Divine (no longer in business) - strawberry boo berry cuppy cake
Daphne's Divine - serendipity birthday cake
Dairy-aire - waffle cone vanilla bean noel zucchini bread
Glitterati - sangria white peach
HHS - grandma's serendipity strawberry cream cake
I Heart Wax - serendipity danish butter cookies
I Heart Wax - berry explosion zucchini noel
I Heart Wax - blackberry jam butter cookies zucchini noel
I Heart Wax - lemon pound cake cotton candy
Jack Be Nimble - orange chiffon cake
L3WW - boo berry zucchini bread vanilla bean noel
Lake Providence Lodge - rainbow sherbet
Lake Providence Lodge - lemon pound cake
Lasting Scent Candles - lemon heaven
Orchid Lake Candles - key lime pie
Rosegirls - lemon wildberry birthday cake
Rosegirls - strawberry serendipity *gift*
Rosegirls - strawberry jam strawberries & cream *gift8
Rosegirls - raspberry keylime pie *gift*
Rosegirls - pumpkin carrot cake *gift*
Rosegirls - raspberry coconut bread *gift*
Sassy Girl Aroma - blueberry creme brûlée birthday cake
Scent Illusion (no longer in business) - birthday cake coconut pumpkin pecan waffles
Scent Illusion - almond serendipity
Sniff My Tarts - sugar cookie lemon sugar vanilla bean noel
Sniff My Tarts - marshmallow cake pistachio pudding lemon pound cake
Sniff My Tarts - pink sugar type
Sniff My Tarts - cotton candy bliss
Sniff My Tarts - vanilla waffle cone
Sniff My Tarts - fresh strawberry pink sweet cream
Sniff My Tarts - sweet cream buttery brown sugar crunch berry crisp *gift*
Streetman Company Store - pumpkin pecan waffles
Streetman Company Store - berry orange margarita
Streetman Company Store - cranberry lime peach tea
Streetman Company Store - flirt ***LOVE***
Streetman Company Store - berry bread
Streetman Company Store - coconut grass
Sugar & Spice - coconut cream pie
SuperTarts - berry jam butter cookies
Thirty Street Wax - blueberry pumpkin patch
Thirty Street Wax - pumpkin sugar cookie
Thirty Street Wax - pumpkin hot buttered rolls
Tiffany Candles - vanilla bean noel sugared cronut
Vintage Chic Scents - happy days
Vintage Chic Scents - the great pumpkin
Weekly State of Affairs:
Pending orders:
Rosegirls - sampler - (10/18)
SMT (10/25)
Streetman Co. Store (11/7)
Watched:
Gone Girl (good! I like the book slightly better but this is still worth a viewing)
Sex Tape (horrible)
Neighbors (worse than sex tape)
Frontera (enjoyed it)
The One I Love (liked it)
Begin Again (really liked it, Keira Knightley has a sweet singing voice)
Last Week's Erin Condren:
Perfume of the Day:
{Coco Mademoiselle edp}
How embarrassing that the bottle is smudged with my finger prints from my lotion-y hands. I have loved Coco Mademoiselle for years and have had a bottle in my fragrance repertoire all throughout my 30's. I think, after this bottle, I'm going to try the more mature Coco. I'm not sure I'll stay too far away from this one though, I've been chased in the mall many times by women asking me what perfume I'm wearing when I choose this one. And this is the truth:
Sunnee.. this is so wonderful the Clomid has you ovulating! It seems funny/odd to ask, but is this the first time your body has ovulated? Do you still get 'that time of month' when you do not ovulate? Besides being happy for you that your body is ovulating, it makes me happy to know that you and Curtis are at peace with whatever the outcome is.
ReplyDeleteYep.. utterly obsessed or uninterested.. LoL! Sounds just like me, too ;)
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@Lynda - I don't think it's the first time I've ovulated but I think ovulation is few and far between for me on my own. I do have a period because of the progesterone and before I was taking that, when I was younger, birth control would start a period for me --both without prompting ovulation.
ReplyDeleteYes, we are cut from the same cloth with that last quote :)
Remember my sister! She had a laundry list of problems and she had her first baby at age 40. =)
ReplyDelete~Deb
@Deb - I often think of your sister. And every time you post a pic of that sweet baby face nephew of yours, my hope meter skyrockets.
ReplyDeletePraying it is meant to be for you sweet friend. Your vibrancy, compassion, humor and level headed ness would make you an amazing mom.
ReplyDeleteLove that last pic. Side note- no idea Scent Illusion is no more. Hm.
Okay, it's almost scary how our lives are paralleling each other's right now lol. I also recently found out that my body produces very low amounts progesterone and will be likely starting fertility treatments (i.e. progesterone and Clomid) early next year. It has been scary watching my cycles get further and further apart just over the course of this year. I would love to hear how you are feeling throughout this whole process, would you mind if I messaged you to chat about it all? I wish you all the baby dust in the world Sunnee <3
ReplyDelete@Julie - thank you for the sweetest words ever. <3 I think Scent Illusion shut down about 2 months ago.
ReplyDelete@Jacqui - I could not wait to text you when I read this, reckless driving and all <3