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

May 31, 2000

Hello! May 31, 1998, I spoke to Rodman for the first time. May 31, 2000, AF found me! Yuk!! We had a wonderful Memorial Day Holiday with my mom. AF flirted around with me on Saturday and again on Monday so I spent the entire weekend wondering what was going on. As bad as I hated to get AF, it really was good timing. At this time, it looks like I am on a cycle of about 25 days. That means that I should have one more AF before my surgery and be able to start Clomid immediately afterwards. Then, if all goes well, I can attempt to get PG before I have the first AF. That would be wonderful.

My mom and three cousins, ages 10, 12 and 14 came for the Memorial Day weekend. The youngest two are boys. Rodman treated them to a royal weekend. They played basketball and went swimming. He is really going to be a great dad. We enjoyed having all the family around us. We don’t live close to either of our families so it is quite unusual for us to spend three days with a house full of people. We loved it.

Rodman had so much fun, I might be able to talk him into having more than two children. The 14-year-old and my mom and I went shopping and had the absolute best time. We ate breakfast and dinner at our home just like a great big family should. Neither of us were brought up in that kind of family, but we both hope to instill some strong family connections in our children by eating dinner together often, playing together and being a close group.

So, here I sit, struggling with ol’ AF and wondering when it will actually be my turn, my turn for real. Hopefully it will be soon. I get down in the dumps sometimes just thinking about TTC but when I talk to some of my buddies from chat rooms, I realize that I am not as upset as some of them seem to be. Rodman and I have both have really good attitudes about conceiving and that helps a lot. We are both getting anxious to see what will happen after my surgery and, of course, having the children with us for the weekend made us realize just how much we want our children.

I know that all will work out for the best. Hopefully soon enough for us to have more than just one. I am an only child and I don’t really want to have just one child. Rodman is one of four, with his brothers being just older and just younger than him by a year or so and a sister that is about six years younger than him. He doesn’t talk about his childhood too much but he did realize this weekend how well the two boys got along with each other. I hope we are able to have a close family… and SOON! Thanks for letting me share my story with you.