Aunt Floooooow.....

Where are youuuuuuuu?

You have not been around since February and I kind of miss you. Although it has been the longest time on record of no spotting or bleeding....I would love for you to begin making a regular appearance again.

Oh and can you come with exactly 28 days in between each visit? Can you also not breakthrough half way through the month? Oh and can you please be easy on me your first visit back, I know it has been a long time but no need to rally....

Tagged

I was tagged by this lovely creature so I will muster up the energy to think of 10 random factoids about myself.

1. On any given evening, you will likely catch me talking in a very strange oochy-coochy way and giving many kisses (like close to make out kisses) to my labradors.

2. My father is gay and his partner is 30 years younger. My mother looks like Mimi from the Drew Carey show and has 5 Yorkies. Both of my parents will keep me in therapy for many years.

3. My senior year GPA in high school was a 0.3.

4. I decided to move out to Boulder, Colorado when I was 19 years old. I moved here with a hunky friend Dan who was home for fall Break. I withdrew from college classes and decided to move within a weeks period of time. He spent the week fixing an old Scirocco while I packed and we were off. About 3 minutes into our trip, on the highway in Connecticut, the car burst into flames. We frantically tried to get all of my stuff out and the emergency crews came rushing onto the freeway. We turned back, got my 1987 volkswagon that was for sale at my dad's and took off again. We made it in less than 35 hours.

5. I always set my alarm clock so the numbers represent a math equation.

6. I graduated college with honors and did my thesis on cognitive development in 5-month olds.

7. My name before I got married was that of an actress.

8. When I was young, we had a hamster that knew how to open its cage and so it lived in its cage but the cage was in the bathtub it would slip up the sides if it tried to get out. One night I had a dream about something scratching me and I woke up and the hamster was on my neck. I freaked and threw it against the wall. It lived.

9. When I was 11, I met Jonathan Knight from KNOTB. He was in his hotel room in his boxers at 4am. My sister and I snuck a note under his door saying there were two huge fans outside of the door. He opened the door and we took pictures with him in his undies. When he went back inside, we stole his used silverware and salt and pepper shakers from his room service tray.

10. I have never seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies.

Makeover

My follow-up appointment went really well today. My doctor is very happy with how the surgery turned out and the pictures he showed me made me really happy I did this. He showed me the before septum and had several images taken during the procedure. The "after" image made me really happy, the top of my uterus is pretty close to flush with my tube openings and you could see blood flow. The dip in the heart is just about gone.

He told me I needed one full cycle and then we can "pursue pregnancy" again. I think we will be giving my body a few more months than that to recover from being blasted with Lupron. I have not had a menstrual cycle since February and I really would like my body to have some time to balance itself again. I will track for the summer and in the fall, I think we will ease back into trying. I am just so scared to lose another pregnancy so this time off will also be a time for me to find a new sense of trust and hope in my body.

The Magic Book

So I have been such a slacker at WW that I decided to take the "magic book" this week. The magic book is a 12-week journal from WW and each week a member takes it home and religiously tracks their points....mainly because they will pass the book onto another member the following week and they should follow the rules and track their points but also because - everyone who takes has a great weight loss week.

I took the book this week and it was day one today. Let's just say it is 7pm and dinner is cooking, I have been SOOOO good today (I even threw out the crust of the twins' grilled cheeses!) and I am about to eat my hands off before dinner is ready. I grabbed my blog before I put a huge dent into something in the cupboard.

Happy Mother's Day

On Friday, I gave my boss the two clay pots the twins painted for her. We spent a lovely sunny day in the backyard in diapers, painting pots...and ourselves. We went to the store and picked out some colorful annuals and we spent some time in the dirt making them just right for "mama". (FYI, never bring twins toddlers to Home Depot).

Today, my husband and I delivered 3 small clay pots to my SIL that our 2-year old niece painted on one of our "dates". We try and take her once a month for a fun date and a few weeks ago, before our trek to the "choo-choo" park, we covered her in an old t-shirt and she made three masterpieces on clay pots. We filled them with colorful blooms and she was so excited to give them to her mom.

I wish I was a mom today too.