This really happened.

Here is a reenactment of what happened yesterday when Nick came home from work:

*Door opens and Nick walks through*

Me: You're home early.

*I then look at the clock and realize he is home on time, maybe even a little late*

Me: I confess I may have done nothing today.

Yes, this is what happens when I haven't had a day off in a while and I just lay around on the couch for a whole day. Don't blame me, it's the weather.

Later, Nick told me I ratted myself out.

Me: Oh I forgot to unload the dishwasher, sorry.

Nick: Now I now you aren't lying about not doing anything.  Usually you do at least one chore to say you have cleaned the house, and you had no idea what time it was when I came home.

Me: Yep.

So, we really haven't been doing much lately. No news on any front, except this chick is done with school in less than two weeks and we are going on vacation in ONE MONTH. That means I have one month to try and lose as much weight as possible.  In reality it means I will try really hard, lose a few, then need a cheeseburger and it all goes downhill from there.

I will share a picture of my boredom yesterday to amuse you.

Even Lola was annoyed at me being home yesterday. Psh.

Ok, I suck.

I keep saying I am going to blog once a week. It's just like what I say about losing weight: I mean it this time!  Three weeks later I am bathing in ice cream and french fries, saying what diet?  What blog?

We are officially on the track to starting our first IUI, hopefully in April. If not, I am not sure when because I am going to Florida in mid-May. I want to sip a Mai Thai on the beach! I am pretty sure that's on my bucket list. How cool would it be to sip alcohol while basking in the fact you have absolutely nothing to do? Yeah, I am ready to pack my bags right now. How about you?

We are still waiting on the foster thing. WAITING still....since October when we turned in every single page of our paperwork was turned in. We were expected to have kids on Thanksgiving...then Christmas....

If you haven't noticed, Easter is this Sunday and I am foster child less. Why is it so hard to give kids the love they need?

Every time I think I want to tell them just to pull my app and forget it, I hear some story about how kids grew up having an amazing life because of their foster parents. Fine, I get the point God. We can't give up.

I have another funny story to tell. I really hope these are funny, or at least they are to me.

Nick and I are sitting in a church pew, waiting for our turn to leave since the mass has ended and there is a line. He turns to look me in the eye, so we are looking at each other. I would love to say staring lovingly into each other's eyes, but my mind was elsewhere.  My husband tells me he loves me, to which I reply: "My nose is runny." Clearly I was listening to him. He looked at me as if I was crazy, then I managed to fumble an I love you back at him. We were cracking up after the fact, and now he tells me his nose is runny too.

Funny stuff

I almost peed my pants at dinner today. The biggest question you probably have is why? What was so funny?

I don't even remember!

That's how much fun Nick and I have together.  No, it isn't always like that.  I actually think the conversation today at dinner was my (husband's words) "weasel-ly feet".  I am always cold. Always. So, I try to warm myself up any way we can, and one way I do that is by putting my ice cold feet underneath my husband's bum to keep them warm. Unfortunately all of a sudden he stopped letting me do it, so my ice cold weasel-ly feet are cold! And yes, I do have socks on.

There aren't really many updates to say.  Nothing new on fostering news, which I feel like isn't a big surprise. The process is painfully slow, and I am tired of calling to hear of no news.

Hmmm....updates on the trying process actually does have an update. We are going to do IUI with injections, and now we just have to wait....and wait....wait....I have to take birth control before we do the cycle with IUI, but at least we have plan.

As long as I have my husband, I will always be laughing.

Sunday, blog day?

New look to my new blog, even though I actually deleted my old posts. They were pretty depressing, and that bummed me out.  Even though I was, and unfortunately still am, going through some things, I don't want people to read my blog and feel crappy afterwards.

The last time I had updated my blog was almost a year ago, so things have changed.  Unfortunately our battles with infertility have not, but we are taking steps forward now.  My husband and I did take time off after we had a miscarriage with one of our medicated cycles, and it's almost been a year since that has happened.  Honestly, it was the best feeling. We reconnected, went out and lived our lives! It was amazing how much our marriage became refreshed, like when we were dating.  We started going on dates again, laughing so hard together that it hurt to smile.  You never realize how much you miss things until you experience them again.  The first time I saw a ground hog "in the wild" made us cry we were laughing so hard. It feels so good to be us again. To be fair, the ground hog was in the parking lot of a Save-a-lot that we were driving by after getting some pizza. Feel free to laugh at me now. :)

 A year ago everything was so different.  I had a hard time doing anything without somehow becoming sad or upset.  Everything seemed to set me off. It was a hard time, and I am glad that it seems (for the most part) to be over.  We got a new infertility doctor who is more proactive about getting us pregnant, and wanting to figure out how I can carry to full-term.  We have an appointment with him on March 5th to really go over our options after all the testing we completed, so hopefully we should have a plan of action soon.

Other big news, we started the process of becoming foster parents.  We actually started this back in September, and we are hoping (although the process has been painfully slow) to at least get our license to be foster parents soon.  This is a tricky area right now, and a lot of people have opinions (good and bad) as well as questions.  I will go more into detail about fostering, the process, and our reasons for doing it in another post.  I will even answer any questions you have about fostering as well.

Nothing else is really new.  We are looking to buy a house soon, which is scary and exciting. It feels weird really becoming a grown-up, thinking about getting a mortgage. Craziness! 2013 is a new year, and I hope it means new awesome changes are coming.