It's been more difficult for me to keep up on the blog front lately. But I'm going to try to do better. I just don't have all that much to say that is all that interesting. But people keep asking me about the move, where are we going to live, adoption, and my job so I guess I do have some interesting stuff going on just am too lazy to chat about it? Also, as you can see I added twitter to my sidebar there. My boss wants us all to get twitter accounts, so I had to change the name of that one, and will have to make a new one for work. More clutter in my life that I really don't need.
This weekend we are jet setting to New York/Connecticut. We are looking to live in a suburb of New York City that is right over the border in Connecticut. Hopefully we'll find a house this weekend, then I think it will feel more real that we are actually moving. Because right now, not so much.
As for my job, my boss would love for me to stay on and work from home out there. About once a week I will go downtown to meet with candidates and hiring managers. So it will be fun to get to experience the city fairly often. If you talk to me in 3-4 months and I am watching countless Oprah's and eating oreo's for breakfast and lunch everyday we probably have a problem with the whole working-from-home thing.
Lastly, not much new on the adoption front. We are going to go to our first information session in July once we are moved. But in the meantime we are working our way through the paperwork so we can pretty much hand that all in at that meeting. Then we'll start the home study and I'm assuming some adoption classes? I hope we can move that pretty quickly once we're settled. This adoption agency that we are going to use seems great so far. They also don't have a waiting list per say. Everyone just gets put into a pool, and based on our autobiography, what we are looking for in a child and what the birth mom is looking for, they put you in front of people that way. We should get chosen pretty quickly because we are young, fun and oh so exciting, right? Right.
Onward and upward...
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Hello & Good-bye
Hello friends. It has been a long time since I have been around these parts. I needed a break. A break from blogging, a break from reading blogs, a break from work, a break from fertility treatments, a break from telling my story, from life, from Chicago. From everything basically. And now I am back and refreshed and rejuvenated.
Our frozen embryo transfer did not work. I had a feeling it didn't work after a few days, and it was confirmed right before we left for Florida for vacation. At least when it doesn't work you are allowed to drink and have all the fun you stopped yourself from having while you were undergoing treatments. So we had fun in Florida, some drinks and some sun, and eating bad things. We played in the 80 degree waters of the Gulf and watched many sunsets. It was glorious.
Also, right before we left for Florida we got official word that we will be leaving our beautiful Chicago and moving to New York/Connecticut for my Kevin's job. We are so excited, and it has come at a perfect time. We are excited for a fresh start.
With that news, we have decided that we are done with fertility treatments. I still have 3 frozen embryos left, and they will remain that way for the time being. After 5 fresh IVF cycles, and 3 frozen cycles, it's time to get off this train. And I couldn't be happier. Yes, I wish it had worked, but I was starting to not even get excited if it did work. I think I just needed a break from it all. So we are moving on full steam ahead with adoption. We going to do domestic and hopefully one day in the not so distant future bring home a newborn. I've already found an agency in Connecticut that is already very responsive and has even offered to help with anything we might need to know about the area. But holy hell, this paperwork might be the death of me, but it's better than sticking a 2 inch needle in my ass any day :)
As we are saying good-bye to Chicago, we are saying good-bye to birthing our own child. But with each good-bye, means a chance for growth and renewal. As we are saying good-bye, we are also saying hello to that much more.
Our frozen embryo transfer did not work. I had a feeling it didn't work after a few days, and it was confirmed right before we left for Florida for vacation. At least when it doesn't work you are allowed to drink and have all the fun you stopped yourself from having while you were undergoing treatments. So we had fun in Florida, some drinks and some sun, and eating bad things. We played in the 80 degree waters of the Gulf and watched many sunsets. It was glorious.
Also, right before we left for Florida we got official word that we will be leaving our beautiful Chicago and moving to New York/Connecticut for my Kevin's job. We are so excited, and it has come at a perfect time. We are excited for a fresh start.
With that news, we have decided that we are done with fertility treatments. I still have 3 frozen embryos left, and they will remain that way for the time being. After 5 fresh IVF cycles, and 3 frozen cycles, it's time to get off this train. And I couldn't be happier. Yes, I wish it had worked, but I was starting to not even get excited if it did work. I think I just needed a break from it all. So we are moving on full steam ahead with adoption. We going to do domestic and hopefully one day in the not so distant future bring home a newborn. I've already found an agency in Connecticut that is already very responsive and has even offered to help with anything we might need to know about the area. But holy hell, this paperwork might be the death of me, but it's better than sticking a 2 inch needle in my ass any day :)
As we are saying good-bye to Chicago, we are saying good-bye to birthing our own child. But with each good-bye, means a chance for growth and renewal. As we are saying good-bye, we are also saying hello to that much more.
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