As I mentioned in my post last Thursday, this pregnancy has been kicking my ass. Unfortunately, I’m not the only one in the house who has been feeling under the weather. Last Tuesday I had some daycare issues (SEVEN people couldn’t watch Stella!) so I decided it was the universe’s way of telling me to […]
**Warning – this is going to be a post full of me whining and feeling generally sorry for myself. Capisce?** So that’s how that’s going. I literally had to leave work this morning and run home to (1) puke in my freshly cleaned toilet, and (2) change my shirt because I couldn’t stand the feel of […]
I love looking back at past years to see how much has changed. Three years ago, I was happily on the way to Norway with my Mom and sisters, but I was also starting to realize just how screwed up my cycles were, and I was vacillating between some crazy hope and confusion. That next […]
Hey everyone! So I know this will probably come across as petty and ridiculous to some, but it’s the truth, and that’s how I blog, so here ya go… I don’t wan’t to freak out about weight gain while pregnant, but I also am a teensy-bit petrified of weight gain this time around, so it’s […]
Reblogged from Chez Scov: Dear Stelly, This month of your life has been full of travel and fun for us. We started off by going to St. Louis for five days, where you go to meet all of Daddy’s extended family for the first time and even got to take in a Cardinals baseball game! We […]
I probably should have quit temping to avoid this, but with Stella I kept on for a few more weeks. The last two mornings my temps have been way down (almost to my coverline) and it’s making me freak out that I didn’t start the P4 supplements soon enough. Has anyone had this happen and […]
Yesterday Charlie was in our guest room office trying to work on a bid, and Stella wanted nothing more than to go in and hang out with him. He finally took a quick break, and she was extremely excited to hang out on his lap and check out his Jim Edmonds bobble head doll that […]
On Friday night I was chatting with the midwife we used for Stella’s delivery, and she asked if I had checked my progesterone levels yet. I told her I hadn’t, and she said that since I seemed to have issues with that in the past, she wanted that checked and me started on supps immediately […]
ETA – It feels completely weird to be writing a post like this after our first cycle of TTC#2. I have a few IF friends who got pregnant more easily with #2, and they were right – it totally throws you for a loop. It’s almost like I feel like I’m not allowed to claim […]
I am suddenly feeling as if the last week has thrust me into an alternate reality. One week ago, I had interviewed for a new job, and I was praying they gave me a good offer (well, any offer at all), and last Friday they offered me the job. It wasn’t for as much money […]
On Sunday morning I handed Charlie a pee covered stick as he stepped out of the shower and said: So this happened this morning… I’m just 4 weeks along today, with an EDD of January 8, 2014. We are basically existing in a state of shock and gratitude over here right now. God is good.
-Starting Weight: 5’8″ and 172.9# / BMI 26.3 -Last Week’s Weight: 162.9# -Current Weight: 160.8# / BMI 24.4 Avg Daily Steps – 6,391 (goal was 6,000/day) Avg Daily Calories – 1,582 (avg deficit of 689/day) # Floors Climbed – 117 (goal was 100) Focusing on nutrition has been going really well for me this past week. It’s a good […]
We just had an absolutely wonderful, perfect weekend. No joke, no exaggeration, it was perfect! Lots of time spent with good friends, a multitude of projects completed at the house, and perfect weather to do it all in. Yesterday afternoon, we capped it off by hanging out on our newly completed back desk and watching […]
Three years ago today, I wrote this post about us all living on the pale blue dot. Watch the video; you’ll be happy you did. It’s an exercise in reality to read back through that post now – time really does keep moving on, and all of the stress we continually put on ourselves – it’s […]
-Starting Weight: 5’8″ and 172.9# / BMI 26.3 -Last Week’s Weight: 164.3# -Current Weight: 162.9# -Goal Weight: 152.0# Avg Daily Steps – 6,411 (goal was 9,000/day) Avg Daily Calories – 1,610 (for 5 days I tracked – avg deficit of 40/day from my goal) # Floors Climbed – 74 (goal was 150) I was 203 over the goal MFP […]
I’ll never forget the moment one of my best friends called to tell me that she was accidentally pregnant. My husband and I had only been trying to conceive for a few months, but I already knew that something was wrong, and she was the person to whom I had been confiding my deepest worries. […]
Charlie and I have been slowly working on the back deck at our house over the past six months. Last fall we bought and installed the support beams and joists, and then we ran out of money, so we covered the whole thing with some cast off plywood from a job Charlie had been working […]
Reblogged from PAIL Bloggers: This month, rather than hosting our usual Monthly Theme Post, PAIL is encouraging you to participate in RESOLVE’s Bloggers Unite Challenge as part of National Infertility Awareness Week (April 21-27). This year, the Bloggers Unite prompt is ”Join the Movement…” The goal of this year’s Blog Challenge is to bring together bloggers to talk […]
$467.52 Last week we made a trip to the local bank and found out that’s how much change we had in our jar that we put our pocket change into at the end of each day. This jar is always earmarked as “vacation money,” so even when times are super tight (like now), I refuse […]
-Starting Weight: 5’8″ and 172.9# / BMI 26.3 -Last Week’s Weight: 164.0# -Current Weight: 164.3# -Goal Weight: 152.0# Avg Daily Steps – 8,317 (goal was 9,000/day) Avg Daily Calories – N/A (didn’t track in STL for 5 days) # Floors Climbed – 107 (goal was 150) I’m honestly pretty happy with this week! I either sprained or broke my […]
We just got home this afternoon after spending the last 5 days in St. Louis visiting Charlie’s extended family and my blog friends. It’s been a whirlwind of a trip, but it was SO much fun. More details later, but here is a quick shot of my fam at the arch on Sunday morning! ***** This […]
-Starting Weight: 5’8″ and 172.9# / BMI 26.3 -Last Week’s Weight: 164.1# -Current Weight: 164.0# -Goal Weight: 152.0# Avg Daily Steps – 9,534 (goal was 8,000/day) Avg Daily Calories – 1,725 (847 deficit/day) # Floors Climbed – 147 (goal was 100) Well, my weight actually fluctuated UP most of the week, so I’m glad the overall Wednesday morning […]
The weather here in Colorado has been all over the board lately (ex. 60s and sunny over the weekend, but 30s and snowing now), so it definitely appears like it will be a typical “spring” season here. Charlie and I had a great weekend hanging out with friends in the evenings and TCOBing (Taking Care […]
-Starting Weight: 5’8″ and 172.9# / BMI 26.3 -Last Week’s Weight: 163.7# -Current Weight: 164.1# -Goal Weight: 152.0# Avg Daily Steps – 7,700 (goal was 7,000/day) Avg Daily Calories – 1,513 # Floors Climbed – 82 (goal was 150) GAH. Okay, so I forgot to wear my FitBit from 8am-1pm last Friday and again yesterday ALL DAY (8am-6pm), […]
One of the things I love most about the ALI blogging community is how much I have learned from everyone. I have learned from the advice of the trailblazers who started their journey before me and had the courage to blog about it, I have learned from the encouragement and support of those going through […]
