Continuing

I'm about 3 dpo, in what can only be described as a "heroic measures" month.  Seriously, if I do not get pregnant this month, then I don't think I ever will, without assistance.

We just got back from a week-long trip to New England, which went surprisingly well, given the vicissitudes of toddlerhood mixed with new locations every couple of days.  Three things which helped:  a portable DVD player; this bed (recommended by a friend, and fantastically useful); and a steady supply of snacks.  To show what lunatics we are, we actually combined the trip with some intensive potty training, and were not too much worse the wear for it.  I will try to write a post soon, detailing our potty training regime--what worked and what didn't--because I found it tremendously helpful to read other people's experiences with their kids, and liberally stole good ideas from any and all sources.

We have a lot planned for the coming months.  I am going to New York later this month, and San Francisco next month, and am looking forward to both trips tremendously.  My friend also convinced me to sign up to do this walk with her in the fall; she said, hopefully, that perhaps the act of paying the registration fee alone would be enough to ensure a quick pregnancy.  I tend to think this is a bit of hyperbole, but it can't hurt to have multiple options open.  I am starting training now, and I am looking forward to getting out walking again and hopefully getting more in shape. 

We are also looking at trying to renovate/remodel our kitchen later this summer, after a particularly nasty leak left one wall slightly rotted, all of the cabinets adjacent to it damaged, and several feet of tile broken and pushed up off of the sub-floor.  Our kitchen was redone about 25 years ago, and while the aesthetic choices were all pretty inoffensive (oak cabinets; off-white Formica counter tops; white ceramic tile floors), it has never been what we would have chosen.  It is large, and in some ways very functional, but its layout has never worked too well.  We would also like it to be open to our adjacent den, so that I could watch Andrew play while I cooked, and also look out to the back yard.  So as it doesn't make much sense to pull up the cabinets, counter tops and floor just to put it back exactly the same, we are looking at re-doing the whole thing--if, of course, we can actually get a home equity loan now.  It is exciting but a bit daunting--way too many choices!  I am trying to figure out how, exactly, we can replicate the Barefoot Contessa's kitchen with a decidedly un-Hamptons budget.  

Andrew has taken several great developmental leaps lately, and has taken to telling us how he "was a baby" but he "growed up."  (Especially amusing was his statement to our friends' very pretty 5-year-old daughter, "Yeah, I'm a grown up.")  Let's just hope we can add "brother" soon to his list of "big boy" accomplishments... 

Comments

[Heather]

Wishing you lots of luck on the possible pregnancy and home loan for remodeling the kitchen.

[bittermama]

Yay for great new travel plans and projects (including the heroic measures). Shaking those chicken bones...

[Dead Bug]

Very impressed with your traveling/potty training combo.

May this be the month!