Positively wonderful

I got my pregnancy test blood work done and it was positive!! The babies are growing strong. I am scheduled for an ultrasound on December 31st to see if it is truly twins. This will be a busy day as we will be moving out of our apartment that morning and going to Denver the next day. I need to set up an appointment with a doctor up there ASAP and one of the dr's here knows of a good one he went to school with for high risk pregnancy (which I am now in three ways.) Hopefully he will be near our new area.

How am I feeling? Well, where do I start. . .

Exhausted. I am so tired. I try so hard to make it to Alex's 1:00 nap time. Sometimes I even get him to bed a little early.

Cranky. Hormones, exhaustion and an energetic little boy don't make it easy to be pleasant.

Hungry. I have to eat every few hours. This is strange to me because it has only been a few weeks since the babies were implanted so I feel like I am just eating too much.

Terribly thirsty all of the time. I can't drink enough. As soon as I pee, I have to get another glass of water. What a cycle that is.

Sore. My tush hurts from getting a shot every evening, though Patrick is an amazingly wonderful shot-giver.  I started them the day after thanksgiving and will continue for about another month. Ugh.

Blessed and joyous. The Lord has blessed us greatly and we are truly thankful. What perfect timing too. One day shy of the three week mark where they normally do the ultrasound is our moving day.

We now have signed a lease for a condo in Denver. The grocery store, library, bank and park are all within a mile of our new place. It also comes with a dishwasher AND washer and dryer!! So excited to be able to wash at home. Lugging the laundry and Alex all the way to the laundry room would be pretty bad in the Denver cold and while pregnant. We signed a two year lease to lock in the price so it doesn't increase on us next year when we would renew anyway. (Tiffany- it is at the corner of Hampden and Sheridan in Bear Valley.)

What blessings God has blessed us with. May we be wise stewards of them now and in the years to come.

A tale of two

So, this past Wednesday I had my big doctor appointment. Two little baby embryos were implanted into my uterus. The nurse commented with much enthusiasm about how well it went. The strange part is that I thought I would be more excited by now. The reality is that I have read too many stories about the losses and missed chances when it comes to IVF. I don't want to be overly optimistic, nor do I want to be pessimistic. So here I am just kinda floating in between pretending nothing is different and having faith that God will let everything work out to His benefit, not mine. I want to be elated, but not yet. We shall see after the official blood work pregnancy test on December 11th.

One cool side thought: if the babies are growing normally, an ultrasound would be able to pick up the heartbeats on Christmas Day. (Smile)