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Julia's Diary EntriesDiary Navigation: |
September 28, 1999
Well, tomorrow is the big day! We will be closing on our house on
Wednesday
morning September 29, at 8:00 a.m.. Hopefully everything will go without a
hitch. DH and I are so excited to finally be moving in to our OWN HOUSE! I
would love to be able to tell him that I'm pregnant as well, but I'm pretty
sure I missed that boat. Mean old AF is due on the 29th as well, and she's
already giving me signs to let me know she's on her way, if you know what I
mean!
Still, even though I know that my period is coming, I can't help but fantasize about how nice it would be to tell my husband that he's going to be a dad on our first night in our new house. The timing would have been perfect. Oh well, the arrival of my period can be a good thing too...if it comes on time, it will mean that I correctly estimated when I ovulated, and it also means that my luteal phases are over 10 days. All of these things are good, and they indicate to me that my body is doing what it should do (at least as far as I can tell).
This morning, I noted that I had just a little spotting, and I knew that it meant that AF is announcing her appearance...but still, I was wishing that I could will my body into making that spotting turn into implantation bleeding. It is at times like these that I feel that all of this wonderful information that I've learned on this website, and sites like it (although, there are really no sites as good as this one and its sisters!) is really detrimental to a woman who has a good imagination. I mean, when you know all of the pregnancy symptoms, all of the ovulation symptoms, how to record and track your BBT,and everything else under the sun...you can really imagine yourself pregnant. I'm sure there are many people out there who know what I mean.
I tell myself that when it happens, I will KNOW that I am pregnant. My mom keeps telling me that, too. She said that her breasts felt as if someone was constantly grabbing them and twisting them. But, from a survey I read just last week, most women don't even experience any symptoms that they could pinpoint as exclusively symptoms of pregnancy. So, where does that leave us hopeful women? Hoping, I guess.
Anyway, I am very excited about moving into the house, and getting started on all of the little projects that we've decided to do. I am sure that all of these projects will keep my mind off of TTC until my anticipated ovulation date...which will be after the 20th of October. DH and I have really been enjoying each others company since we had that big talk a few weeks ago. It seems that all the miscommunication is out of the way, and we can just enjoy being around each other again. Of course, I'm not ovulating...which has been known to put me into an insane baby making frenzy. We will definitely have to see how this month goes. But, I am holding DH to his prediction, that this coming cycle will be the last one that I will have for at least nine months!
Until next week, take care everyone!
Julia
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