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Aimee's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 7/11/02 -------------------- 7/2/02 6/26/02 6/21/02 6/20/02 6/17/02 6/11/02 6/8/02 6/3/02 5/29/02 5/16/02 5/7/02 4/29/02 4/24/02 4/19/02 4/15/02 4/8/02 4/2/02 3/25/02 3/17/02 3/12/02 3/11/02 3/5/02 3/1/02 2/27/02 2/24/02 2/19/02 2/11/02 2/4/02 1/28/02 1/22/02 1/15/02 1/2/02 11/16/01 11/1/01 8/20/01 8/16/01 8/15/01 8/14/01 8/12/01 8/9/01 8/6/01 8/3/01 8/2/01 7/31/01 7/29/01 7/25/01 7/23/01 7/20/01 7/16/01 7/9/01 7/2/01 6/25/01 6/21/01 6/14/01 6/12/01 6/11/01 6/9/01 6/4/01 5/29/01 5/24/01 5/22/01 5/8/01 5/4/01 5/1/01 4/25/01 4/24/01 4/18/01 4/9/01 4/5/01 4/3/01 3/8/01 2/26/01 2/20/01 2/14/01 1/22/01 1/3/01 1/2/01 1/1/01 12/18/00 12/11/00 12/4/00 11/30/00 11/20/00 11/14/00 11/2/00 10/26/00 10/23/00 10/19/00 10/13/00 10/6/00 10/2/00 9/25/00 9/18/00 9/11/00 9/5/00 8/30/00 8/22/00 8/17/00 8/11/00 8/7/00 8/2/00 7/31/00 7/24/00 7/18/00 7/11/00 7/7/00 7/5/00 6/23/00 6/19/00 6/12/00 6/7/00 6/5/00 5/30/00 5/22/00 5/15/00 5/7/00 5/2/00 4/26/00 4/19/00 4/12/00 4/3/00 3/27/00 3/21/00 3/17/00 3/17/00 3/13/00 3/6/00 3/1/00 2/28/00 2/24/00 2/15/00 2/10/00 2/7/00 2/2/00 1/25/00 1/24/00 1/18/00 1/13/00 1/3/00 -------------------- Aimee's Introduction

December 4, 2000

Hello everyone,
Where in the world is Aimee?? The world outside of TTC is so BIG! Somewhere in the last year I had become entangled by this huge task of TTC and become engulfed in its enormity. I was taken on this boat out to sea and shipwrecked on this lonely island. I have been here for the past 14 months with my DH and the friends I have met on this lonely island. As time has gone on, I have learned to live and breathe TTC on this island. It's been hard, long and lonely at times. I have somehow been rescued at the moment from the worries of this long journey. I have been picked up by this small aircraft and lifted above my island to see everyone below me engulfed in the same mission. The ride up here is great! I do miss my friends on the island, but the view from up here is so beautiful at the moment that I don't want to come down out of these white sunshiny skies. Forgetting about the island and just basking the pure sunlight is so nice. I can forget my worries and move onto the next island in life. I have landed off the small aircraft onto a big huge ship that is taking me to the ocean. Here we are one step closer to the mainland. I am so excited to sit on the deck of this ship and dream about the months to come. This ship's path must be the way! It has to be. I am one wave closer to my goal.

My break during the past month and a half has been enlightening. Have you done something in the thought that you might be something in the near future? OK, better explained as: I am not going to drink a beer over dinner with my husband because I might be pregnant (it's the 2ww). Or I won't take anything except Tylenol for a migraine headache that has made me nauseated and sick to my stomach because I might be pregnant or it might cause me to not ovulate. The instances I can think of are so many that I won't bore you with every single one of them. I guess all I am getting at here is this is the first time in 14 months that I have taken it easy and not really worried about getting PG. I have taken it easy. I mean, I really have taken it easy. I haven't thought about O'ing or BD'ing or getting PG. My mission right now is getting DH fixed and move on from there.

It's funny how our goal has changed. We have gone from wanting to become PG by DH's birthday (April 2000) to getting PG by summer 2000 to getting PG by Thanksgiving 2000 to getting PG by Christmas 2000 to just getting PG at all any year, any month, any date in the future. Our priorities and goals have shifted to the possibility that we might not have children together unless we get our situation figured out. In the interim I have enjoyed my time off the TTC roller coaster. Although, the bandwagon is ready to pick me up in January. So, much for a break, huh? Life is short. Have you heard that before? Well, I really think that is an accurate statement. I don't want to live my life in a shell around a certain situation. You have to live happy! I have been enlightened in my break. If we are to become parents, it is going to happen. We all have a story already written out for us. We are just here to live it out. I am ready to accept that story and see what the next chapter in my life reads. So, patience and understanding are now entangled in my pages. The more I understand, the easier this book will read.

Congratulations to all the girls that have seen the wonderful + sign and are on their big ship in life to the mainland. You deserve it and are now on the ship to parenthood! Congrats! Best wishes to all that are still stranded on that island waiting for the rescue boat to pick you up. It will be here soon! Keep your faith in "The Big Man" upstairs ... always!

Love,
Aimee