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Jamie's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 5/31/00 -------------------- 5/22/00 5/8/00 5/3/00 3/8/00 2/18/00 2/7/00 1/26/00 1/18/00 1/11/00 1/8/00 1/5/00 12/26/99 12/21/99 12/13/99 12/7/99 11/29/99 11/23/99 11/16/99 11/8/99 -------------------- Jamie's Introduction

January 26, 2000

Hi all!

Well I'm not pregnant -- big surprise. = ) I'm currently on CD#3. I made an appointment with a Reproductive Endocrinologist for February 17. That comes right after my annual pap on Valentine's Day -- yuck! Anyways, we want to talk to him about preserving my fertility and treating my Endo. Like I said a few weeks ago, my endo is just hurting incredibly bad right now -- worse than last summer, before my lap diagnosis. I'm just waiting for the 14 day cycles to come back. The pregnancy treatment hasn't worked so far, so I think we need to move on to something else.

Another big surprise that I'm incredibly happy about -- my sister is pregnant! I know, you'd think I would be sad. But, they've been TTC #1 for about 7 1/2 years, and no, she doesn't have endo as well. She waited until she was 9 weeks along to tell us, just to be sure. They were going to wait longer, but my BIL just couldn't hold it in any longer. It was funny -- when they asked our niece (very spoiled by both her aunts) how she felt about sharing her room at their house, she said, "But who would I share it with?" BIL said a baby. Lauren was like, "Ohhh are you guys going to adopt too?" When they explained my sister has a baby growing inside her, she went crazy she was so excited! I cried with joy when I found out. I cried about half a second for me when I realized we would be due around the same time if I'd gotten pg when I wanted to. She's due August 25, and my birthday is September 1. My mom's birthday is August 16, and their anniversary is August 18. Needless to say, we are all pushing for any day but the 25th.

We told our case worker that we want to adopt and foster at the same time. But, yesterday I found a 6 year old girl, and her 11 year old brother that are entirely too cute that I want to adopt. So we're going to talk to her about just adopting those two, if possible. They are in Iowa, so we'd have to find time and money to go visit them, move them here etc., if we're able to go through with adopting them. And Kris had just picked out a vacation for us to New Orleans for very cheap too! I'd rather take my vacation to go pick up those two.

If you guys ever want to see some kids who are up for adoption through the states, go to www.adopt.org. You won't find any babies probably, and they won't be perfect, but who's perfect anyways? In Oklahoma, the state covers adoption fees (if not all, a majority of them), and if you adopt a minority, sibling group, or a child with a disability you get a subsidy every month. If you adopt from other states, they will tell you if they will cover transportation to visit the child and move them to your state, and if they cover all agency fees, on top of the subsidy every month. I think this is great, especially for people that want children, but might not be able to afford the normally huge adoption fees. I mean, we're young, and there's no way we could afford to adopt two children, move them here, etc. at this point. That's not to say we're completely poor! We can feed them, keep a roof over their heads, and give them lots of love. I think that's the important thing.

OK, Kris wants me to go call our number to see if we can go home from work. We are in the middle of the first snowstorm this winter, and I think they said last night it's supposed to be 9 to 10 inches by this evening. And the snow wasn't supposed to start until this evening! It took us 45 minutes to drive 7 miles this morning. I came with him so I wouldn't have to drive in later this afternoon. I can just imagine how bad it's going to be when I'm supposed to go home at 10:30 p.m.

Stay warm, and cuddle with your honies. = )

Jamie