A Sniffle and a Blog

Currently brewing: Linden Flower Tea (from Cornelia Bean...I absolutely LOVE it), and it will be served in one of my mugs that I inherited from my aunt, there are 4 handmade mugs that are delightful with a blue flowers sort of water painted on...hard to explain I guess). It's been a while, so I forget the rules. I believe I am to drink something hot, describe the mug, include a picture, and I had a 2 day deadline to write the next post...which, I failed at. I'm sorry. Things that are new? Not a whole lot. There are leaves appearing on trees. The sun is up longer. I am outside more. I've taken to 10k strolls, or 5k strolls if time is crunched. (Today I took my first 5k walk where I was able to walk up the stairs without being overly winded after...perhaps I am on the mend!) Quite nice really, although I noted today that those black and green worms that hang out of the elms are back. I didn't have to deal with them last year as I left before they came out, and returned once they were gone. I had this lovely box of Kleenex, and I used it all up, and I am incredibly disappointed because it was quite a nice box. I shall have to keep my eye out for another one like it. Did I tell you how angry I was at my Dr? I was so angry when she gave me the antibiotics, I almost didn't take them, but I knew she wouldn't do anything else for me if I didn't. So, I then brought up that the other pills she had me on made me irritable and cry a lot, and she said to take them for one more month, and so I bought magnesium supplements to take so that I am not irritable and hysterical (because I had heard from someone that this significantly helped their daughter) and I have not felt irritable or hysterical since. It's quite a relief to know that I probably won't burst into tears when the pressure is on. My boss was very worried about me after one incident where I stood in her office door, said "I suck at nursing" and burst into tears. Quite the experience. Below is a picture of the mugs, the kleenex box, and one of my pie plates...I bought a little set of of them, because they are beautiful. This months pie, which I think I'll make on Wednesday, will be a chocolate mousse base with fresh strawberries sliced on top. I think it's going to be awesome.

Now I'm going to finish my tea (and my diluted orange juice...I read somewhere that if I stop being dehydrated maybe my sinus' will clear up...so, as of 2 hours ago, I am drinking as much as I can!), and then go to sleep, because tomorrow is work...a blessed short 8 hours of it, but work nonetheless. Happy day to you!   I also have no idea how to make paragraphs...I promise when I wrote this it had paragraphs, and they changed blogspot and now I can't make paragraphs, so it's going to have to stay a giant slab of words.

Blogging from Prince George!

Currently: sitting on the couch, watching Kris play NHL on his Xbox, cuddling with the 2 white dogs- Carlos and Murphy!

Prince George has been great! Of course you know how happy the tattoo I got has made me :) we're also having a great visit with Kris' parents and looking forward to a BBQ with 15-20 people tonight!

We come home tomorrow, hoping to stay til lunch and be home around 10. Monday will be a busy day of last minute pre-Mexico tasks.

I hope Norquay is SO great. I wish I was there, but I'm also glad I'm here.

I don't have a lot to say, it's been an interesting week. Lots of sad mixed with hope in this whole baby process. Praying that this is a mark of progress and that there will be a babe growing soon. If not, it's on to A.R.T. and learning to give myself needles. Should be an adventure with a steep learning curve if nothing else!

This is my first from-the-iPhone blog, the app is actually super easy which is nice. I'm debating a map before I get too into this day so I guess this will be a short little blog! Love you!

Can you find the 2 white doggies in the picture??

And a picture again of the new tattoo because I'm infatuated with it and so freaking happy it's part of me!!!!

Hey hey hey! I like this place of blogging.
I actually loved your blog. I thought it was beautiful, minus the puking thing and not being able to sleep. Hopefully that has continued to decrease since work ended today.

I babysat today. It was a long day, but it was fun. B is adorable. Funny. Loveable. I can't believe she is 3 and knows so much.

I also had Irish step dancing class tonight. It was exhausting. I've been so busy I haven't been keeping up with my other activities (swimming, skiing, occasional excursions to the gym, dog walks) and so with an hour a week of dance on Thursday's as my only cardio...I'm starting to feel it in the class! I'd like to reprioritize exercise...once I catch up on my sleep and house keeping and friend seeing. Dre suggested, before our birthdays, that we come up with something we'd like to do with our 26th year. A goal of some kind. Hers was to complete a triathalon. Mine was to write more. I've been blogging more, a kind of test-write I suppose, and sort of thinking about what exactly I would actually like to write and that other people would like to read, or if it should just be something I write and save on my computer and my grandkids can find and publish it when I'm old and gone. Anyway, the actual point (and reason this is included in the exercise paragraph) is that Amanda sorta stopped her whole training thing, and I questioned her, and she explained that a triathalon was a lot of work and she'd never get there anyway. So I had to step up and remind her of what she had said when we were 25 and told her she didn't have to race the thing she just had to do it. So, as the encourager, I guess I am doing it too. So if, in the rather nearer than I'd like future, I have to swim 1.5km, bike 40 km and then run 10km without actually literally dying, I had better make exercise a bit more of a priority...or find a machine that makes me exercise in my sleep...

Speaking of sleep, I was falling asleep while stretching after dance today, so I am going to go to sleep now. I am drinking water, because it is Lent and I am only allowed to drink water, and I didn't find warm water appealing, so it's just room temperature...

Here is my picture...I'm very excited to this guy in a few weeks...will you be there? I surely hope so!!

catching up.

So, it's been a few months again.

I didn't figure out if there's a blogger app. I should do that.

I've been home sick all day (like icky puking sick) and now suddenly can't sleep and am wide awake. Odd. So I decided I should visit our little blog and even though my stomach hasn't been able to keep anything down, I've made some Mother's Helper tea that will hopefully be both easy on the stomach and sleep inducing.

I am going on an all-expense-paid trip to Whitecourt this weekend! HAHA, not generally an exciting thing, but that's where Kris is working, and I get to stay with him for free and his food allowance is plenty enough to cover both of us, so off I shall go to Whitecourt. A lady my mom works with used to live there, and is adamant that they have many lovely shops that I will enjoy to browse and spend my money in. Looking forward to that ;)

Being the conformist rebel I am, I've finally decided on my next tattoo. Following in the footsteps of my current ones, it has a charming cheese factor with a bit of cute to it. It will have the silhoutte of two birds on the top of my right foot, with the script 'if you're a bird, i'm a bird' adjacent to it. The quote is from The Notebook, which alone makes me swoon. Being the cheeseball I am, I really wanted a relationship/wedding commemorative tattoo, and now I'm just giddy at the prospect of it! I'm hoping to book the tattoo soon, as long as I can back out of it if I end up pregnant.

And getting into the nitty gritty of my many failed attempts to make a baby, this month I've adopted a 'go with the flow' attitude that I had abandoned when I first started fertility drugs. I was trying to be relaxed, but also charting and ovulation testing and making sure timing was optimal and everything. And this month, nada. I still have to go for my ovulation confirming bloodwork in a week, but that's it. I took my drugs, but I'm just not worrying about it. God knows when He is going to send us a baby, or in the event fertility drugs live up to their street cred babies, and I am becoming really okay with that again. This happened to me last year too, as my chances to have a baby in a certain calendar year dwindled, I became kind of desperate. But I'm realizing my timing means nothing, God's timing means everything. My desperation will only negatively impact me, but relying on God to provide in His time will impact me only positively. So really, it's a no brainer. I still have to do everything I can do as far as trying drugs and what not, but I also know God is in this and He has a plan for us and all the future mini Richter's. And it's a good plan, a really good plan. I just have to have patience tempered with persistence, an interesting battle to wage for sure.

I really like having an iphone, it's truly an 'all in one' in my life. Kris suggested we not take our phones to Mexico and I went all teenage girl on that idea! How will I take pictures? How will I set my alarm? How will I check the forecast? I'm so dependent on this device, it's kind of sad. But also, so awesome at the same time. I sold my soul to Apple, and I have no regrets.

Speaking of Mexico, I am ELATED that the swimming suit finding expedition is finally completed and was successful. It sucked as bad as I thought it would, and I had to lower my standards a bit, but I'm happy with the outcome and excited for the fun shopping now. I need new sunglasses, beach reading and am convinced i *need* a big, floppy hat. Fun!

I wanted to go visit Rae and Kyle while I'm there, but it turns out it is like an 8 hour trip each way, so I don't think that will be happening. However, I'm 100% debt free which is SO exciting, we still have some student debt of Kris' to take care of, but it definitely frees us up to go on more trips in the near-ish future! Which is SO exciting, I really hope Kris catches the travel love while we're away and wants to see more places, I know these gypsy feet are itching to feel some new ground beneath them! It also has me legitimately considering home ownership which is crazy. It feels just crazy. We keep saying we don't want to buy until we can buy our ideal home (build new, outside of the city), but we're realizing that we hate renting, and are now readjusting our thoughts and thinking about town houses or duplexes. SO WEIRD that we're even having this conversation. But then I remember I'm 26 and married to a 30 year old and then it just feels like it is time to make this leap. Maybe we won't do it yet, but maybe we will. Who knows what the next 6 months hold!

And those are my random updates. I don't have any fun pictures to share, I will try not to break rules next time :) Love you friend, hope sleep has come far more easily to you tonight than it has to me! At least the tea is staying inside my tummy. Yay for life!