How To Get Preggo

Most of our friends and family know that Alex and I would like to have a family someday. You may also know that we've been hoping to make that a reality sometime this year. It seems that most people I know who are pregnant or recently pregnant got pregnant very easily. A couple of them by mistake. So I thought and assumed (BIG mistake) that it would happen right away. Wrong! (as most of my assumptions usually are.) We tried for three months and no luck, just lots of sad times when Red emerged from her slumber.

Our next step was to try the ovulation sticks. Hopefully, this would pinpoint a good time for us to get it on and make a baby. We tried this for two months. Geez, I never thought I'd be peeing on so many sticks! With that method, we weren't having any luck. So, we decide to make an appointment with my ob/gyn to see if she had any suggestions. I knew it was probably too soon and she would want us to wait, but I wanted to be reassured that everything was ok with us. I always jump to the worst conclusion and think that I have something totally abnormal about me. Our appt was on Thursday, June 30th. I would hate to say it was a waste of time, but it was! She told us we were fine and that we just needed to keep trying. SUCK!

Well, the Friday after our appt (7/1) I decided it would be fun to take a pregnancy test (not sure why, but the mood struck me). I was due to start anytime between Saturday and Monday, but we had some of the early detection tests (First Response), so thought I'd give it a whirl. Well, two lines emerged. I'd never seen one with two lines, so I had to run it by Alex to see what he thought. Looked like pregnant to me. Alex went out later and got another pack of three tests. I proceeded to take one each morning on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. All came back positive! And finally on Wednesday (7/6), I took a digital test to confirm. Well, PREGNANT was the answer! Talk about a range of emotions, but THRILLED was the overwhelming response. We are so excited for this journey we are embarking on and how it will forever change our lives!!

And I promise that this will not be the entire focus for the blog. Of course, there will be stories that arise from it, but hopefully, there are other things in my life that are exciting enough to write about! :)

Happy Pregnant Me!
--Am

How To Be a Little OCD

First of all, I would like to say that I have not been clinically diagnosed with OCD and I do not mean to poke fun at anyone with a serious disorder. Second, whoa busy time of my life right now! Which, in turn, has caused my OCD to spike. I'm not a germophobe. I don't have to touch things many times. I don't pull out my hair or pick at my skin. See I'm OCD when it comes to information and knowing things. For example, once I start reading a book or watching a movie, I have to finish it no matter how much I hate it. I am so afraid that I am going to miss something important. When I'm on aol.com, I feel like I need to look through every feed, even if there are 30. It's really annoying.

I follow many different blogs and feel like I need to look at every single post. I. CAN'T. MISS. ANYTHING. If I skip a day, I will make sure to look at the missed posts the next day. Recently, I have not been keeping up with things. In fact, I don't think I've looked at any of the blogs I follow for the past two weeks. I just started a new job on Monday and I was super busy wrapping up the old job before that, that I had no time to keep up with my blogs. Now I'm trying to determine if I go back and read ALL the blogs or if I can handle it to only catch up on certain blogs. This is a tough decision as I'm so afraid I'm going to miss something life-changing. I realize that's probably not the case, but it still sits there in the back of my mind. So, what do you think? Should I catch up on ALL of them or just a select few? What do you think I will do? I guess we'll see!!   

To all of my other mildly OCD friends, I feel your pain. But, it's time to move passed it!
Happy Obsessing!
--Am