Hello bleeps! For those of you visiting from ICLW - welcome! Not really much to say, except we have been battling infertility for about five years now. Have done 2 IUIs and planning a third one. I love my hubby dearly and we also have two love dogs. I spend my time mostly at work (I am a grade … [Read more...]
My dogs already know this
I never used to be a dog person. In fact I grew up with a cat. Leopold helped me through my single years and now Coffee and Milo are there for me in my childless ones. Dogs really don’t care what you look like or any of the Material Things that seem to matter to humans. They … [Read more...]
Another year
37 tomorrow Another year passes by The pain doesn’t get easier In fact it intensifies My dogs give me love Lick my hand Jump into my arms Hubby bought me beautiful roses I am so grateful for what I have But sometimes I get tired of positive thinking All my life I’ve … [Read more...]
Attention Seeking Seals and Lonely Penguins / My blog picture
Hello bleeps! How are things with you? It’s been an up and down week. Up: good news: Mommy in Waiting has a positive outcome for her 4th IVF! Go and congratulate her!! Down: my dear friend from varsity got a BFN for her first IVF. She has now moved on to FET. Please send her your most … [Read more...]
From Muddle to Meaning
Hello bleeps! How are you all doing? I went to a very interesting workshop yesterday on Techniques at the Counselling House at church (where I do the play therapy, uh, correction, not doing it at the moment due to work overload). We had to do various activities which would reveal … [Read more...]
You know you’ve been infertile for too long…
Hello bleeps! I’m still here! Working hard, but still functioning! I am so happy to be on a long weekend midterm break. Today we went to a book sale where they sold books by the kilogram. A nice one I am reading right now is all about stories of different women and how they conceived ("Trying to … [Read more...]
Why I love my husband
Hello bleeps! I know you haven’t heard from me in a long time. It is because I have been completely overwhelmed with work. I have three new things added into my daily timetable, one more special needs kid to help, two brand new kids who need to be taught from scratch... the upshot of which is … [Read more...]
Counting the cost of infertility
Brett wanted me to do a spreadsheet of everything I have spent on fertiliy. So I decided to do one - just for the past six months. This does not count everything (more than 3 years) that have gone before, but these 6 months were the time that I really got serious about this, with the goal of doing … [Read more...]