Period over! Now, just a few days until BD time.

I'm going to try REALLY hard this month. I ordered a fertility monitor and I should get it tomorrow. I also asked my OB for a prescription for Guaifenesin, which is an expectorant which should help my cervical mucus. Just before ovulation, I'm going to take a baby aspirin every day, to help with blood thinning to aid implantation and reduce implantation side effects. This will be my fourth cycle of TTC, so we're still definitely within the normal range.

So, we met with the builder Tuesday night. It was actually a good meeting I think. We told him that we felt there were some communication problems, and we wanted to make sure everything went OK so we'd be happy with the house. He said that they were going to start on insulation next week, then dry wall later in the week. So when we check it in a week and a half, we should have drywall and probably siding outside! That will make a big difference in the "feel" of the house. It will start to feel complete. We need to have our lighting bought in 2 weeks, so we have to start shopping now. I'm excited about that. :) He also said that he was going to switch out the tub on the bottom floor so we'd have a shower instead (they put a tub in there on accident). He had to drive up to Michigan to get the shower so there wouldn't be any delays with our house. Which is fine with me, because it was their mistake. I'm glad they're trying to "work with us" now though.

He said the house should be finished between Christmas and New Year's. What a lovely time to go through the hassle of moving. It will probably be late though, as always. So I'm expected a realistic move in date of like Jan. 10th or so.

Started my period. This month was looking kind of interesting too... but, it was very strange from the beginning, so oh well.

I've already put in a bid on ebay for a fertility monitor. :( Hopefully I get it... this one is like $150 cheaper than what I would buy in a story, hehe!

I'm also looking into ways to increase cervical mucus... this most recent month there was like NONE. However, last month it was great! What's the deal? I was on medication at the time, something in the medication I was taking before probably had a side effect that helped out.

Although it seems like I've been trying to concieve forever, really it has only be 3 months. The first month we tried it was too late, so that month was missed. Then last month I was on medication so we didn't try. So it has only been 3 months where we actually tried and did not concieve. That's not too bad.

Oh well... on to next month.

Interesting. My temperature went up a little bit today, and I haven't started my period yet. Could yesterday's temperature drop and spotting be implatation? Oh, I hope so! But I'm not banking on it. This cycle has been so strange, I'm already kind of writing it off. No other feelings or symptoms of potential pregnancy.

So, two things we need NOT to happen: I want my temperature not to drop... in fact it needs to go way back up, and, obviously, I need to NOT start my period. If neither of those things happen within the next two days, I'll be VERY hopful for this month. (I've spotted a little in previous months, then started my period one or two days later). If they don't happen in four days, I go out and buy a pregnancy test. :)

But I'm 95% sure I'll start my period today or tomorrow. :(

Well, my temperature dropped today. Probably will start my period soon. This month has been wierd... ovulated a little early and ended the cycle a little early. Oh well. I'm going to buy that fertility monitor asap!

Still don't feel pregnant. I had a little bit of spotting yesterday, which is a good sign... but my temperatures aren't very high, so I don't really have any other good signs.

I forgot to mention that we visited the house this weekend, and a huge patch of our shingles blew off! The weather hasn't gotten warm enough yet to melt the tar that holds the shingles down, so when we got a windstorm last week, a bunch of them blew off. Bah! Luckily, it isn't REALLY our house yet, so they'll just have to fix it. Heh. :)

Hi there... still waiting to see if we're pregnant this month. Honestly, I don't feel pregnant at all, so I'm sort of already planning for next month. Kevin says I can get one of those expensive fertility monitors. The temping should tell me when I did ovulate, but maybe it is showing it too early, and we're missing the right time? That can happen sometimes. He also says we can use egg whites to increase cervical mucus. :)

But, we still have hope that it isn't necessary!

Sorry I haven't updated it so long! I have had a ton to do and I had to go to Chicago for this work thing, blah blah blah.

But the news is, I ovulated and we BDed and now we're waiting to see what happened!

My chart is a little screwy though because two days after what I think was my ovulation day, I slept really well and ended up with a temperature of 97.7, which is really low for post-ovulation. I think it was affected by ovulation though. So, my chart doesn't believe that I ovulated yet, though I'm sure I did.

Just have to wait now to see what happens!

The lady at the store where we're getting our cabinets called and said we're under our allowance on cabinets. Isn't that nice? I might want to get a different cabinet configuration (like more drawers in my bathroom) but Kevin of course wants to save the money. We go to the store this weekend to finalize the cabinet choices, so we'll decide all of this at that time.

And, I stopped taking my Singulair today in preparation for ovulation. Hopefully I don't get sick from not having it. I don't think I will though, Singulair has never seemed like it worked for me anyway.

Not much going on today... just waiting til this weekend for ovulation. Talk to you later! =)

So, this weekend we will start TTC. I'm excited! I feel like I have better chances this month. But still, one has to realize that even with the best chances, you still only have a 1 in 4 chance of getting pregnant, and the pregnancy itself has like a 20% chance of failing within the first few days. I'm not sure if the 1 in 4 statistic includes the lost pregnancies, actually, but, you get my point.

The house is going well, as you can see by the pictures. We're still hoping it is finished before the end of the year. This has been a REALLY LONG process, I'll tell ya! But I'm still so excited about getting the house I can't stand it. :) If we're lucky, we can have the house before Christmas... but, we might not be so lucky. =(

Hellooo... temperature dropped way down today. What's up with that? It can't be ovulation... perhaps it is because of my medication, or because of something else. I also changed my temping time to 7 am instead of 6:30, so perhaps that is why. Who knows, all I know is that it can't be ovulation.

I got some new pictures up of the house. Click on the link to the right to view, or you can just jump to the new pages here and here. Also, be sure to check out my panoramic views of the upstairs and downstairs. If you're using Explorer or a few other browsers, it will automatically resize the image to fit in your browser window, so click on the "exapand" button (which comes up if you hover your mouse over the image) to make it full-size. You might have to scroll side to side, but at least you can read it. =)