IVF is going to run about $15,000. Somehow, I don't think it's in our future. So that's one of our four options down. Next up for consideration - going for broke with insemination and using up all the "stuff" we have.

Halloween was good. I got my hair done, then went home to finish cleaning the house before my dad and brother arrived (in Dan's hot new car). Mom arrived a bit later. Then we got Cat up from her nap and dressed in her princess costume (pix later - I forgot to bring my memory card in today). Daddy took the little princess out - the original plan was ( Read more... )

Well, dammit ( Read more... )

Today's the day we find out if we're expecting, or if we have to shell out another two grand next month. I did the stick test last night, and it was negative, but that's not necessarily cause for despair - I did a stick test with Catherine that came back negative, too, because I did it too early ( Read more... )

Nice weekend ( Read more... )

I'm a little weirded out at the idea that I could, potentially, be pregant after this weekend. Probably, we'll go in to do the insemination tomorrow and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday, depending on what the ovulation test kit tells me. Which is good - Joe will actually be able to be in the room when his child is conceived, which is always ( Read more... )

Five-day weekend ( Read more... )

Last night, Joe and I discovered that, due to a miscommunication between the two of us, our storage contract with the fertility clinic had expired in January and we had never paid to renew. (I didn't realize that the original contract was only for a year, and he assumed that I had asked about it when I went in last summer.) So we were a little ( Read more... )

UGH ( Read more... )

So Joe got home last night. It was funny - I went to pick him up at the airport and, when Catherine saw him approaching the car, she got a big smile on her face. And then, he went to the back of the car to put his suitcase in the trunk, and she started to cry because he'd disappeared. So, when he came back into view, he opened the back door and ( Read more... )