Happy Mother's Day!

I know I'm a day late, but the reason I'm late posting is because I was spending time with my MOM! After church, Brad and I had lunch with his mother and his side of the family. Then we went over to see my Mom! I really looooove my Mom. She's one of my very best friends and has been since the day I moved out of her house! Ironic? I love you Mom! You are the BEST mother in the entire world and you did a wonderful job raising me :o)

Mother's Day was a little different for me this year. I almost felt like people in church were staring at me, thinking 'Oh poor thing. I know she feels bad today.' Especially when the preacher said he realized that a lot of us in the congregation were struggling with Mother's Day because we wanted so badly to be a mother and couldn't be right now.

Today is day one of Clomid. Wish me luck!

Our test results

Remember all the instructions I told you there were regarding Brad's SA? Well here they are, along with everything else that's happened today! The nurse told us that we had to abstain for three days so we could get a good sample. Then once we got the sample into the teeeeeeeeny vial (inside the cardboard holder in the previous post) we had exactly one hour to get it to the lab. We live about 30 minutes away from the lab AND I had to drive through school traffic this morning to get there and I made it with 10 minutes to spare!! Oh, and did I mention that I was instructed to 'keep the vial warm' until I got it to the lab? The nurse told me I had to put it between my boobs as soon as we got the sample until the time I saw her at the lab! As I was driving in to town this morning, I couldn't help but feel like everybody on the road knew exactly what I was doing and what I had hidden you-know-where....

So the results came in from his test and my bloodwork from yesterday. He is fine, I am not. Surprise! We knew that. My TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) was 0.02. The normal range is 0.32-5.00. And my doctor said that that basically confirms his assumptions that I'm just not ovulating correctly. So we got the green light on Clomid. Now we just have to wait for AF. I will take 50mg on days 3-7 and have an ultrasound done on cd12. I can't wait!!

It's Show Us Where You Live FRIDAY!

Head over to Kelly's blog by clicking the button above to see everyone else's rooms! This week, we are showing off our living rooms!

My favorite room in the house! We just finished painting it green! I love everything about our living room! (Notice The Catch on the wall? Marriage is about compromise, right?)

Brad plans on getting a 52 inch flat screen as soon as that tv goes out!

And every living room needs a cute little furry baby in it!

I also love my vaulted ceiling! But I did NOT love painting it!

Brad and I could live in those recliners. Seriously. They are like sitting on clouds. In fact, I'm sitting in mine as I type! :o)

Here is Bella's toybox that stays in the living room. She loves her Santa Claus no matter what time of year it is!

Remember me talking about this picture? What do you think? It's my favorite part of our living room!

And because I was in no mood to blog last week, I'm a week behind! Last week was kitchen week, so here's mine!


I love that I can wash dishes/cook (haha, right?) and look out into the back yard. One day, I'll be able to watch my kids play in the backyard!


The table we have eaten at maybe 5 times!



I love my cabinets...I just wish there were more of them!


And a couple of the more sentimental pieces in my kitchen are the three feathers I have that I got each of the three years I went to Honduras on a mission trip.

I hope to have the opportunity to get many more feathers from Honduras!

And last, but not least, what kitchen would be complete without an autographed picture of David Copperfield on the fridge??

Now it's your turn! Show the bloggy world your living room! (And kitchen if you are lazy and didn't do it last week like you were supposed to!)

I'm SO excited!!

I know I said I would post to the post I wrote this morning, but this deserves its very own post! I explained everything that has been going on to my doctor (that we have been trying for three months, but mainly the 47 day long cycles) and he didn't like that at all! He said that women ovulate around 14 days before their period starts and with me, by the time I actually ovulate, my uterine wall isn't able to support an embryo. So it's virtually impossible for me to get pregnant with such long cycles. That's the bad news. But there is suuuuuch great news, too! He is going to put me on Clomid!!! So I had to have some blood drawn for some tests to make sure nothing else is wrong AND Brad has to give a specimen for a semen analysis.

Is that thing scary or what?!?

There are allll kinds of instructions for that thing! But I'm going to leave all that for another post! Anyway, he also said that normally he likes to put women on the pill for a month so they can have one good cycle to get the body back in rhythm before putting them on Clomid, but he wants to just go ahead and try the Clomid for a month and see what happens! So if everything with my bloodwork and Brad's semen analysis comes back ok, we will start! I just hope we can hurry and get all the tests and everything done so that I can start it this next cycle. So far, AF hasn't shown up....let's keep it that way until we get the go ahead from my lovely, wonderful, oh-so-my-favorite doctor! I haven't done much research on Clomid yet. Any advice IF ladies?

D-Day

Today is the day I've been waiting on for two months! My doctor's appointment! Halleluah! I took a test Tuesday morning and it was negative.....and then I took a test this morning and it was negative, too. So I guess I need to convince myself that I'm not pregnant this cycle. And the ironic thing is, I think AF will be knocking on my door today. I hope she waits until AFTER my appointment, because I will most definitely be scheduling a new appointment if that happens. Did I mention that today is CD46????? Is that torture or what? I really hope my doctor can do something about these looooooooooooong cycles. They are killing me! And I'm going to chart my bbt next cycle, too. So maybe that will help us get pregnant! I'll post the results from my appointment on this post later today, so stay tuned!!

How did this turn into a post about April's kids?

Yesterday afternoon Brad and I picked up Reece from daycare to spend some time with her. I took some pictures with my camera phone but I have NO clue how to get those on here. We had dinner at O'Charley's with our friend Jacob and then we headed over to Northport to watch Brad's nephew play baseball. Reece loved watching the game and was a perfect angel the entire time! I could just eat her up!

And I am SO happy to tell you that Griffin loves me again. Around Thanksgiving, Griffin was eating a piece of ham and I walked up to him and got a bite of it. He got SO mad at me and has barely spoken to me or had anything to do with me since! In the past week or so, he's turned a corner and decided that he likes me again! I'm so excited!

Peyton, on the other hand, worships the ground I walk on and always has! I love that kid! He was with me when I bought the paint for my living room (around 2 months ago?) at Home Depot. April liked the color so much, she decided that she wanted to paint her bathroom the same color, so when I brought her my left over paint Peyton tells everyone in the room, "Allison bought that paint at Home Depot. I know, I was with her!" How does he remember stuff like that?

I go to the doctor tomorrow! YAY! I don't think I have ever been this excited to go to the gyno! :o)

I'm still here.

I haven't gone anywhere. I just don't have much to say. There isn't anything on my mind, other than the fact that I want a baby and can't have one right now. And I'm sure most of you are tired of hearing me complaining and crying about that. I still have a glimmer of hope that I might be pregnant, but who knows? I am going to the doctor on Thursday and hopefully he will be able to give me a definite answer then. At least I'll know then and won't have to keep guessing. Maybe I'll be more chipper tomorrow...