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It’s finally over.

Filed Under: Infertility, Travels by skrdflute — Leave a comment
September 10, 2011

After 8 long weeks, our cancelled cycle is finally over. It was rough waiting it out, but I really did not want to have to go and get more medications to hurry it up. Now we wait until next year when our HSA fills back up so that we can afford to do more treatments.

Other than that, we have just been staying busy. Labor day weekend we had a nice cool front come in that dropped our temperatures from over 100 to just above 80. It has been a nice cool week. We turned off our air conditioning, opened up all the windows and doors and just hung out outside. We did a couple bike rides around the lake and really enjoyed the week. It actually got cool enough in the morning that I had to start wearing pants to work. 🙂 Unfortunately, the temps are going back up, so we will probably have a hot week next week and then the weather man said that it would be slowly cooling down to fall weather.

We are starting to plan out our trips for October. We are getting excited for all the fun we are going to have. We are heading down to Octoberfest in Fredericksburg, the Bat Cruise in Austin, Phoenix for a week, Houston for a weekend to see a friend, and then we will spend Halloween weekend here with some friends and Darrell’s mom. So much planned, so little time! I’m loving it!

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What a week/weekend!

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August 30, 2011

That was the longest week I have had in awhile. The afternoon route has just been so busy and crowded. I am sitting at 61 Pre-K through 2nd grade children. I tried to put them into assigned seats and boy was that a failure! I don’t know what my plan B is. I think I will just let them sit where they want. I was informed yesterday that we have a new driver coming in, so in two weeks or so, I shouldn’t be driving a regular route anymore. I’m excited to be getting back to just subbing.

I did that trip down to Rockdale on Saturday.  It was a decent 15 hours of work. We got down to Rockdale around 5 and the temp was at 109. It was ridiculously hot. I was so glad that it was the shortest football game I have been to. a 180 piece band was unloaded, played for the game, and reloaded leaving the parking lot in just over 3 hours.

Sunday was a slightly relaxing day. I did the laundry and got things done. We have been cleaning our backyard and working on deciding what we are going to do. Our hope is that we will be able to do a lot of it ourselves once the weather cools down. We have to see whether or not it will be cheaper to do pavers or cement for the patio. I’m going to ask my boss for a quote since he lays concrete on the side. I know the quote we got from a landscaper was $2600, so we are hoping for a much smaller quote. We don’t think it should really cost $10/sq ft. So.. I guess we just wait and see.

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Stress!

Filed Under: Infertility by skrdflute — Leave a comment
August 23, 2011

I have been trying to not stress over things lately, but yesterday I just couldn’t help it. Yesterday was the first day of school. The morning route was pretty predictable. Not much changed from last year. However, the afternoon was all over the place. I drive the little kids home, so I really have to watch which ones are getting on the bus, where they get off and who is there to pick them up. There was so much going on. I got the kids home but it took a long time. I was running 40 minutes late on my run when I finally was able to pick up the Jr. High and then they were a quick run home. A little bit of backtracking, but not a whole lot. What a day!

Then on top of all of that, Darrell reminded me that I hadn’t started my period yet. I have been having all of the symptoms for the last week, but haven’t actually had the period. So I called our NIC (Nurse in charge) and asked what she wanted to do. When the NIC had called to cancel the cycle, she said to give it a few days and then call her… that was three weeks ago :/ She said yesterday that she could prescribe me medication to induce it if I wanted to, but before she could do that I would have to go in for an ultrasound and do an hpt. That’s exactly what I want to do huh? Let’s take an hpt to see that it’s negative. Thanks but I think I would rather just spend the extra time without a period. Because I stimmed for so long, the NIC said she wouldn’t be surprised if it took another three weeks before my period. So here I sit at 6 weeks past my LMP and nothing to say the end is really close. Trying not to stress since that doesn’t help anything.

Boss just let me know this morning that I am driving for the band this weekend to the football game. Should be nice. No idea when I am leaving or getting back. I just know that I am heading down to the Austin area. Should be fun!

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I got a raise!

Filed Under: Infertility, Updates by skrdflute — Leave a comment
August 15, 2011

I had my bus driving meeting today for the school year and they informed us that we have gotten a raise. I am so excited! It will give us more money to play with for the cruise and all the other trips. 🙂 Granted it is only about an extra $150 a month, but hey.. every little bit helps.

They still don’t have enough drivers, so I am still driving regular routes until they can get someone new onto the bus. It will be fun I guess.. :/ My afternoon route is going to be a whole bunch of pre-k through 2nd grade. That should be fun figuring things out during the first week of school. I am excited and nervous for the first day of school next week.

Oh, and on the good news front, I have reached my annual health care deductible. So that means that the insurance should cover anything else done this year (as long as it isn’t infertility treatment, so basically, no meds or IUI covered, but ultrasounds and blood work will be covered).  Unfortunately, we will not have the money to cover meds or the procedure until next year which is when the deductible starts all over again. What a cycle huh?

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It Rained!!!!

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August 14, 2011

Yep.. Early in the morning on Saturday morning, there was some bright lightening lighting up my whole bedroom waking me up, followed by a deep rumble of thunder and finally, the unmistakable sound of raindrops blowing against our window. It was such an awesome sound and even though we were woken up at 5am for it, we both loved it. We sat there watching the lightning for about an hour and a half before we went back to sleep.

When we finally got up on Saturday, we realized that Darrell had left his car windows down, so his whole drivers seat was soaked. We had a long relaxing day on Saturday. We watched the rest of the Avatar cartoon on Netflix, and Darrell made me beef stew for dinner. It sprinkled off and on all day on Saturday with the high only being like 90. Such a relief from the heat we have been having.

Today we also had rain and a somewhat relaxing day. In total we have gotten about 4″ of rain in the last two days. It was a nice cooling weekend. Unfortunately, we are expected to get hot later this week, but hey, the reprieve was nice. 🙂

Just a random fun fact: I went and got chinese food for lunch last week and I ate my fortune cookie and guess what my fortune said:

“From the floors of the ocean, the waves of the tide, a vacation awaits you far & wide.”

Makes ya think we might end up going on that cruise huh?

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