Another beautiful day in Western Oregon today. I'm actually sitting on my porch writing this. (We have 10 months of rain here, so a sunny day is much appreciated). I hope everyone's week went well. Any positive testing out there???

We have had a very busy week here. Still waiting for the OPK test to tell us to get busy! I took my first one yesterday thinking it would be better to be safe than sorry, in case this month it just happened to come a few days early. They say they are supposed to warn you 24-48 hours ahead so I thought I would just give it a shot, but no LH surge quite yet. I will test it again in two days. If I figured it right, we should be ovulating around the 16th-17th.

I had to deal with some isssues recently that I never knew would come up. I actually had a small dispute with a friend about getting pregnant. For the longest time, she and I were the only ones in our circle of friends that hadn't had children yet, so we were very close, we had that in common and always told eachother that since we had planned to start in the same time frame that we would be chummy about it and go through it together (silly, I know, but it was fun). Jake and I had gotten a serious bite from the baby bug that lasted amazingly longer than any of our others, and we finally knew it was time, and my friend was very upset. Not with the fact that we were starting earlier than thought, but because we decided before her. It sounds so silly and it is, but she felt that we were doing it for the wrong reasons and actually confronted me on it. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have to explain my reasons to someone for wanting a baby now. *shaking head*

So needless to say, this week has left a bit to be desired. Feeling very emotional and weepy lately and I've been wanting to just crawl in a hole and sleep. Nothing worse than feeling like this just when summer comes .... boo hoo.

I'm hoping things will get better here on the homefront soon. We are heading to Santa Cruz for a wedding in two weeks for a nice short five-day get-a-way. It will be nice to see some old friends and spend some alone time with Jake.

Sending out prayers to all of you, I will write again after I get a positive on that ol' OPK!!

Jen