maybe baby

i went to the baby doctor last week. he is actually a "reproductive endocrinologist", but travis prefers if i just say "baby doctor". he is going to try something new this month. well, its actually not new, but since so far, they havent done anything with me but test for things, anything proactive is considered "new". they are going to put me on a drug that is used for breast cancer patients, but which has also been shown to stimulate ovulation. i am exited to finally be DOING SOMETHING!! it has been almost two years of nothing but disapointment. the really good news is that my insurance should be paying for most of it. if they werent, i dont think we would be able to do it. which really sucks. there is legislaition in congress right now that would make all insurance companies that offer maternity benefits cover infertility treatments as well. research shows that it would cost approximately $1 more in peoples premiums to be able to cover. and yet they dont do it. who knows why?? anyway, i didnt mean for this to turn into a vent...i am actually pretty happy about it all right now. i am cautiously optimistic. after two losses, you learn not to get too exited too quickly. but i am also hopeful. i do believe that the LORD is good. i already have more than i deserve!!! but we always want more dont we? human nature i guess.

wordless wednesday

wordless wednesday

wordless wednesday

the war on laundry

ok, i know i have been posting a lot lately so scroll on down and read them all. but i wanted to give you a leeetttle peek at the product of the whole "laundry war of 2007". im winning.

all of this laundry is folded although you cant tell. except for the pile of hanging clothes that i have carefully draped over to one side. now im just waiting for the day to come when i can actually go to my closet and pick out something to wear. its good to have dreams...

im not too proud to accept charity

look at me, look at me!!!!! i am the COOLEST!!! whoa...mental head slap...what the hell was i thinking???? ok, so i am NOT the coolest, but apparently vdog and little man felt sorry enough for me to give me a charity award. she gave me the egel award!!!! i am the awesomest! wait, no sorry...i keep getting caught up in the moment. anyway...she is super funny, and cool, and she lives in cali, which we all like to make fun of but secretly dream of doing. fyi, i was born in cali...something i dont often share, so consider yourselves privledged, people. i mean really. i havent even told my husband that. thats not true, but it made ya feel good for a second didnt it? i thought so. anyway, go check her out!!!

Thirsty Thursday

im starting a new trend in blogging....every thursday i am going to post a new drink! :) since its almost the weekend, im sure we are all thinking about what kind of sweet concoctions we would like to imbibe. here is my current favorite...
there is no specific recipe, but i absolutely LOVE Pama Liqueor. If you want, you can drink it straight like wine, or i like to mix it with about 4 parts pama to one part sprite zero. the sprite gives it a little bit of a kick. you can also make a pama margarita...very tasty. and pama martinis, lets not forget those. although, i dont think they are actually made with pama, they are made with pomegranite vodka. i think.
anyway, if you have any good suggestions, please let me know. im not a big drinker, especially since we are trying to get preggo, but i love collecting recipes.
speaking of recipes...one of these days i am going to share the enchilda recipe that i stole from beth at i should be folding laundry. i amended it a little, but its still super tasty.

SPOT

i want another dog. you probably already know that i have two babies, i mean dogs, and i definitely dont need another. BUT. this dog is so sweet. and so pitiful. and he doesnt get any attention and he wont cost any money and i will walk him every day and i will be the one to take care of him and you wont have to do anything and you will love him i promise and oh, crap. sorry...i went into my "convince the husband" mode. i'm sellin this dog idea pretty hard. and he's not buyin. i've been yanking on his hearstrings for a couple of days now. the dog currently belongs to my parents who give it NO attention...it is a bird dog and therefore relegated to "kennel life". so travis says "if your parents will pay for it, you can bring him home." well duh. of course they are not going to pay for us to take the dog...they are fine with leaving him right where he is. any suggestions?

laundry

so my husband and i both work full time, and each of us has a two hour per day commute. nice huh? so we both pretty much split the housework. there are no set rules, like he does the kitchen, i do the bathrooms, its just that we both put off whatever needs to be done until we both just break down and do it. except for the laundry. now, we all know that you HAVE to have clean clothes. so they pile up in the laundry room until we dont have anything to wear, and then i usually end up throwing them all in the washer. now there used to be this unspoken rule...i would wash all of the clothes, if he would fold them. (neither of us would put them away, they would just sit in the baskets where we would grab them as needed). well a couple of months ago, travis just stopped folding the clothes. no reason, no explanation. just stopped. but i kept washing, so i would just pile the clothes out of the dryer on to the top of the dryer where they would stay until we needed them. (we are classy people). occasionally, the pile would grow to such gargantuan proportions that i would have to haul it to the couch where it would sit for weeks. until one day my dear sweet husband says "sweetie, i dont mean to be mean, but you are not allowed to do laundry anymore unless you fold it."

excusemewhatthehelldidyoujustsayimusthaveheardyouwrongright?????

oh no he didnt.

so i said, (like the responsible, mature adult that i am), "ok, well i just wont do it at all. so there."

so i didnt do any laundry. until i ran out of clothes. and i had to do laundry. but being the crafty person that i am, i only did my laundry. and i still piled it on top of the dryer. this went on for about a month until i couldnt take it anymore. so yesterday i made a deal. i told travis that i would fold all of the laundry if he would put it away...a task that both of us hate more than folding. he actually agreed to it...but so far i am about sixteen loads ahead of him. all of the clothes are still on top of the dryer....but now they are folded. i think i am going to say to him, ever so nicely, "sweetie, you are not allowed to wear clothes anymore unless you put them away."

that ought to go over well.

wordless wednesday

nothing

i have started a first sentence for this blog about 7 times already, and for the life of me i can think of anything to blog about. so im just checking in. ill post tomorrow....if i can think straight.