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Entries from June 2009

All Systems Go

June 29, 2009 · 9 Comments

It’s been all systems go lately on the whole weight loss front.  I’ve been quite determined to lose the IVF weight and to get healthier.  It’s been almost two weeks, and I’m down over six pounds.  I’m thrilled and working hard.  It’s been difficult to squeeze it in, but with some creativity I’ve managed it.  I’ve turned Braden into my little workout buddy.  He now knows where  his thighs are.   I think we have Bil.ly Bl.anks to thank for his learning that one.  He knows how to do a proper squat.  That is courtesy of G.illian Mi.chaels.    Not only am I getting healthier, but I’m teaching my son a lesson as well. 

Those of you on Facebook that I’m friends with know that my air conditioner died over the weekend.  We’ve suspected problems for two weeks.  The unit kept freezing over.  A friend of ours works in the industry.  He took a look on Sunday.  There is a hole in the unit, condenser and coils need replacing, and was out of freon completely.  The model is six years old, but is no longer being made.  There is no fixing it.  It will cost us $2,500 to get a new air conditioner.  Fun.  We put a few pounds of freon in it, and it should last us a few days while we figure things out.  Once it’s gone, our home will resemble a nudist colony.  Let’s hope nobody rings the doorbell!

Things have been a bit crazy around here, but we will manage.  The little people that reside in this house have been extremely entertaining.  We have started potty training.  Every time Braden pees on the toilet, we do the potty dance for him.  Imagine dancing in circles waving their arms all about while singing in an overtly happy tone, “Braden did peee peee on the potty!  Braden did peee pee on the poooootttyyy!”  This is perfectly fine at home, but beeeeyond embarrassing while in a public restroom, and rest assured he will make you do so.  The things we do!  The only thing more amusing is when he expects everybody in the room to do the dance.  Over the weekend, my parents, Justin, and I did the dance at the same time.  If only there were a hidden camera.  I’m sure it looked absolutely crazy!  Although, he does now do the same dance for me when I go and even claps!  Oh yes people, I get cheered for now when I pee.  Life is good like that!

Miss Genevieve has finally decided to have a personality.  That sounds terrible, but she has pretty much done nothing but eat, sleep, and poop for the past (almost) four months.  She is finally alert, moving her arms and legs, smiles, and coos.  We were starting to get a bit worried there!  However, now that she is awake, we are firmly aware that we will have two very entertaining children. 

We’ve been busy grilling in the backyard, swimming in the pool, going to the zoo what feels like every to every other weekend, and keeping busy.

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Vacation Planning

June 11, 2009 · 4 Comments

This is the front runner so far!

Ok, so we have a few places in  mind, but we love this place!  Of course, we’re all just looking at things at the moment.  Tell me what you think!

 http://www.karismahotels.com/

 Azul Sensatori Hotel

This link shows the location.

http://www.karismahotels.com/riviera-maya-mexico

 The actual resort’s website.

http://www.karismahotels.com/resort/azul-sensatori-hotel-karisma

 Why am I in love with this place?  Two reasons.  One it is super kid friendly, and second it is also romantic!

http://www.karismahotels.com/resort/azul-sensatori-hotel-karisma/designed-family

Hey, they also have cooking lessons, candlelight dinner on the beach, babysitting services, a mom’s morning jogging activity (they provide jogging strollers and you take your infant out with other mothers,) parents night out (babysitting while you go out to dinner,) and they have a “menu” of Fisher- Price toys that you select from and have them delivered to your room! 

I can smell the salty sea air already people!  I simply can’t wait!

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Ugly Beautiful

June 9, 2009 · 3 Comments

Our family seems to be passing a cold around for the past few weeks.  The minute you feel better, you get hit by it in another version.  One week you have the stuffy nose and sinus pressure.   The next week you get a sore throat and runny nose.  It’s a viscous cycle that has managed to get all four of us sick.  It’s an ugly scene over here.

However, it’s beautiful that I got to use the words “family” and “four of us.”  I will say there was absolutely nothing beautiful about cleaning up my son’s vomit yesterday afternoon.  Oh noooo.  No amount of infertility, heartache, or IVF will convert you to a vomit lover.  How’s that for a beautiful sentence?

I found Eve screaming and sneezing this morning at 4 am.  I picked her up and started booger patrol.  Then we heard Braden coughing and whining over the monitor.  Off Justin went to collect our sick gem.  Next thing I knew I had Eve on one side of me snuggled up and Braden on the opposite side doing much the same.  I was snuggling my two snotty, coughing, sneezing miracles.  It was ugly beautiful.

Ugly beautiful is also how I feel about my time spent in the trenches working so hard to have moments like this morning.  It was an ugly place to be, but it yielded some pretty beautiful results.  It’s interesting to me how the journey changes and shapes who you are.  I no longer view infertility as my identity, but rather a piece of who I am.  To understand me, you must understand that time in my life.  

Perhaps I’ll write more on that later.

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Vacation Dreaming- Updated

June 8, 2009 · 4 Comments

My parents have decided to take us (my family and my brother) on a vacation at the end of the year.  We have many choices and options, but here are the newest two.  Place your vote (please don’t say both!) for which you think would be the most fun for what will be a seven month old and two and a half year old.  While your at it, have a virtual margarita on me!

FDR Pebbles Beach Resort

Beaches Boscobel Beach  (ironically the site of my very first international vacation!)

UPDATE:

No matter where we go, my parents have volunteered to take the kids every other night.  (Yes, I know!  They rock!)  Both resorts have child care and activities for the munchkin.  I think I like Boscobel Beach better.  Some have emailed suggesting a cruise.  That is definitely on the table.  This vacation started off in Hawaii, then Greece (that was moved to a few years down the road,) then the Bahamas, and now Jamaica.  Can’t wait to see where we end up come September/October!

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Is it just me or….

June 5, 2009 · 11 Comments

Is it just me or does Faceb.ook often bring out your own insecurities and perceived inadequacies?  When you notice an old friend went to London, Florence, or Dubai do you get that awkward not really but slightly wish you could trade lives…just for a little while at least?  Ok, maybe not entire lives, but perhaps exchange some parts, like a grown up Mr. Potato Head!

How often have you thought to yourself that you really have no status update?  I mean, can one truly report to their circle of friends they are in fact doing their fiftieth load of laundry this week, cleaning up milk, ketchup, or yogurt off the kitchen floor for the fourth time today, or going grocery shopping yet again?  These seem so mundane and boring, yet they are the very things most of us are doing in one form or another. 

I find myself looking for the exciting parts of my life to put out there, but what is really exciting to me may not mean squat to others.  Would it really be appropriate for my in-laws to read that my husband just gave me a beautiful kiss?  I mean, let’s face it, we often get so busy that our kisses are more G rated than anything else.  It only takes one really good kiss to yank us back from mundane to Whoa That’s What I’m Talking About!  That to me is worthy of a status update.  Hello world, I’d like to take this moment to shout from the rooftops that there is indeed real and amazing chemistry between me and my spouse.  We almost lost it there between mowing the lawn, doing laundry, creating and raising the children, and paying the bills, but it’s still there!

Then, there are the pictures.  Oh yes, the pictures.  You ever scanned through a photo album that one of your friends is tagged in, but you have no clue who the person who “owns” the album is?  I know you are nodding  your head.  C’mon, we’ve all done it!  Between the exotic vacations and too cute figures, we find ourselves nit picking away at our own lives.  If I only could afford to go to Madrid!  If only I had the genetics to be that thin! 

What I believe happens is that with all our viewing and analyzing, we just might be missing what is truly exciting and brilliant about our own beings.  I will never have legs up to my ears.  I will never be a size…well, let’s just not go there.  I will never jet set on a monthly basis.  There are just many many things that just aren’t me or never will be me, that it’s easy for forget just who I am.  What’s beautiful about my day is perhaps only beautiful to me, but I want to remember to cherish that beauty and hold on to it tight.

So the next time I go to put up a status report, I’m going to do so without thinking about if it’s beautiful to the world at large.  I will do so for me.  If you want to know me, I will let you. 

I am feeding my little girl while typing this.  That’s my status update.  It could very well have also been that my muscles are killing me from yesterday’s hour of tae bo.  Hey both are miracles people!

Just remember this.  Your life might very well be the one people envy.  Be good to yourself!

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