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Jenny W's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 3/12/01 -------------------- 3/6/01 2/27/01 2/21/01 2/13/01 2/6/01 1/30/01 1/23/01 1/16/01 1/12/01 10/18/00 10/11/00 10/4/00 9/20/00 9/13/00 9/6/00 8/30/00 8/22/00 -------------------- Jenny W's Introduction

September 6, 2000

C#7, CD#2, TTC#1

Hi everyone! I felt that this wasn't going to be a ++ month for me from the start. I'm not sure why. The timing seemed right but I didn't have the positive feelings. I tried my first OPK this month and got the ++ on the day I expected. When AF didn't arrive on the expected date, I started to get a little anxious. She is never late. Lo and behold, just when I was beginning to think this might really be it, she appeared. Two days late. This never happens. And not only did she arrive, she showed with a vengeance. Cramps like I've never had, bad headache and all. Not fun. We will be on our seventh month now -- much longer than I ever expected it to take. Boy, was I kidding myself when I thought I would stop taking BCP and the next month be PG. I remember back at the beginning of the year when DH and I were planning a trip in the fall, and he was concerned that I might be too pregnant by then to go. And here we are, not even pregnant at all. A little disappointing, as always, but I always feel this is another opportunity to start over and try again.

Although the arrival of AF was the high (low?) point since my last entry, we did have a busy Labor Day weekend. I went to watch a friend who participated in a rodeo in a small town just outside of Tucson, and spent the rest of the weekend working on the new house. It has really gotten into shape and we will move in in two weeks. Moving is on hold because we are going to Las Vegas this weekend (planned long before we found this house). DH has the PGA trade show to attend, and I have a good friend who moved there after college. Since her move there, I have visited many, many times. It almost feels like another home. And since it is only an hour flight from here, it is a cheap trip, too -- unless you lose all your money gambling.

Thinking of my dear friend in Las Vegas, it is funny how people are so different. She is several years younger than I am, married, with a good job. But she has known for a long time that she doesn't want children. Her husband doesn't either, so shortly after their marriage he had a vasectomy. I thought they were way too young to make a life-altering decision. But she is very open with me about it, and she just doesn't think she has any motherly instincts and has never yearned for a child. I hope for her sake she doesn't get a little older and change her mind because I know a lot of times this happens. I do believe if you really don't want children, you shouldn't have them, but I don't know if having a vasectomy is the answer at such a young age. So, it seems funny that I am such good friends with a person who is so different than me. She has no intention of having children, here I am trying my darndest to have them. I suppose it wouldn't be a very interesting world if everyone were the same.

What I thought would be a short entry is turning in to long one. I will sign off for now and wish the best to everyone else on this time around. Hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend!