Back in the Saddle... Again.

Sooo.... Has it been a year already since I last posted?! WOW. I'm a huge slacker (or really busy).

The boys are HUGE! B is almost 3 (I have no idea how this happened), and little G-Man is 17 months. They are wild, rowdy, and the sweetest boys on the planet. I am so thankful for these little whirlwinds!

Brothers and Best Friends

G-Man enjoying some watermelon and swimming.

The step kids are also doing great and also huge! At 12 and almost 10 they definitely keep me on my toes. 4 kids in the house is A LOT! There is NEVER a dull moment around here.

Life is never boring around here!

I am still in school full time and close to being DONE. I am so looking forward to having my degree and not having to worry about school work.

We are still living in Arizona and, while it's no Florida, we do like it here.

I also started working in November! I am now an Independent Consultant for Jamberry Nails!

I love it so much and I'm making a decent amount of money working from home and almost exclusively online. It's SO much fun and just what I needed... Something girly and just for me! :)

If you like having fun and girly nails that aren't crazy expensive and you can do at home, go check out my site. It's so much fun and I adore being able to do this from home. :)

So, yes, I am BUSY, but loving my life lately.

Hopefully, I will be able to blog a little more regularly now that the kids are in a good routine. :D I hope to hear from you all of you soon!!!

The Bitch is Back

I know. Once again I should apologize for being a crappy blogger.

Sorry, life has been extremely busy and when I do have time I always choose sleep over anything else.

But there are major things going on over here. Things I've been meaning to share for quite some time but haven't found the time to write about.

Right now I am supposed to be doing school work as the husband and the baby nap, so obviously I chose to blog instead. I am an excellent student.

So here is what is up.... We are officially TTC #2. We decided a few months ago that we did not want to wait an overly long amount of time so we made the plunge.

I have found a new RE. I miss my old one from Orlando SO MUCH, but the new one is good. He's not quite as awesome as Orlando, but he's agreed to follow the same protocol that got me pregnant with B even though it is not a protocol they often use at this clinic. So, I'm pretty happy about that. It took two cycles on the femara, follistim, and trigger shot plan to get me pregnant. I'm very hopeful that this will not take a long time.

I am currently in the middle of my diagnostic cycle. New Dr. wanted to redo tests since it has been two years since I've had them all done. I had my HSG done last week and it was much more painful than the first one. I was not expecting that, at all. But the results were that everything is perfect so I can't complain too much.

Now, here is the bad news. My crappy PCP messed up my thyroid. Pretty significantly. She upped my dose a few months ago because my TSH was a little elevated, although not above normal levels. When New Dr. checked my levels my TSH came back at .02. Low end of normal is .4. This is not good.

So now, new Dr does not want me cycling until my thyroid is at a normal level (they prefer under 2.5 but obviously, not this low). I understand why it needs to be at a normal level but I am SO frustrated at the delay.

I have officially been off my thyroid meds for a month in an effort to even out my levels. I called my PCP the other day to let them know what they did to me. They decreased my dose. Without doing any blood work whatsoever. They called in a new dose and told me they would retest me in 6 weeks. When I asked for blood work they told me no.

Does this strike anyone else as extremely irresponsible?! You messed me up before and now you're just putting me on a different dose without checking to see where I am at currently?! Needless to say I am not going back to them and have an appointment in the morning with a different Dr. I am hopeful that my levels have come back up in the last month.

So there it is in a nutshell. Life is crazy busy and it is a little difficult to fit appointments in around my school, my husband's work schedule (he travels quite a bit now) and B.

I committed the cardinal sin the other day. I took B with me to an appointment at the RE. I couldn't help it. My husband was out of town and I didn't have a babysitter. I felt awful sitting in the waiting room with him. And of course he took it as an opportunity to be babbling and laughing his little ass off. I kept trying to keep him quiet because I wanted to be as unobtrusive as possible. I know the hurt that comes with seeing a baby at an RE's office and I absolutely hated to do that to other women. But, I also don't want to start scrapping cycles because I don't have a babysitter seven times a month for monitoring appointments.

So, if you see me with my baby at the RE, PLEASE know that it is not my first choice and I am deeply sorry about the hurt we are causing you.

I will TRY my hardest to keep everyone updated on the TTC front.

Baby 2.0 is officially underway!