Awesome Verse

I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit. And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Ephesians 3:16-19 (New Living Translation)

Couple of things..

Update on my sister Megan:
Last week on Friday they saw a specialist and confirmed that there was in fact an issue with the baby's heart. They found out that their baby boy has Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome. For more of an update, read on here. They are so positive, optimistic and full of faith. It is truly an inspiration. Today they had a couple of appointments, and I pray they all went well and received some more helpful information.

Nothing else too new here. I am continuing to chart my temps to make sure that I am O'ing. Things are way better this time around, since I am not stressed out about getting pregnant now. It will happen when it is supposed to. I have also been taking vitex, which is a vitamin herb supplement. It is supposed to help all around with fertility. I am hoping that it will make my cycles a little longer, but I think that it will be longer this month anyways. I have noticed a pattern. When my period is only like 2-3 days, I have a short cycle, and when it's like 5-6, I have a longer cycle. So this month I am expecting it to be longer.
In other news, the weather here has been amazing! It is getting up into the 80's. I love it!

Not quite sure how to put this all into words...

My sister Megan and her husband found out that they are having a boy! This is exciting, since she thought that was what the baby was since the beginning, but then since the week 12 ultrasound they thought it was a girl for some reason, according to what the nurse said by the pictures. She is about 18 weeks along now.

Please pray for them, if you are reading this.
It looks like something is wrong with his heart. It was all sort of a blur when we talked on the phone on Monday, but it seems that the left atrium is larger and they have to go and see a specialist on Friday. This could mean a number of different things.

I love my sister. She is one of the most amazing people I know, along with her husband. They are truly incredible people and are going to make terrific parents. It's frustrating because while I know that God always has a plan and would never give us more than we can handle, I just don't want them to have to go through this. They have already been through a hard struggle the past couple of years. (Refer here: http://anne-livingandloving.blogspot.com/2007/10/update.html)
Then she had to have surgery and wait an entire year to start TTC again.

I am trying to be optimistic and praying that hopefully this is something minor, or something that can be fixed...praying for healing, and praying for a miracle.

Despite this sad news, I am still in awe of the fact that by late summer/early fall I will officially be the Auntie Anne of two new nieces and two new nephews. How awesome.
God is good.

Hello CD 1.

And onto to Cycle #6 we go.

The only thing bothering me right now besides my cramps and Aunt Flo is that my cycle was only 24 days this time, and according to my ovulation day on fertility friend, my luteal phase was only 9 days. Seriously that is too short as far as I am concerned!! I am wondering if it has something to do with hormone levels...but I have not researched this enough so I don't want to jump to any sort of conclusions.

**runs off to go find info on google**

Nothing new here....

I am in the two week wait, and I charted again this month to make sure that I am ovulating. I quit charting before because it was seriously stressing me out. I have been trying to have a better attitude about not getting pregnant yet, trying not to care so much this month, and remember that it will happen in God's right timing. It has actually worked...I have not been stressed out about it at all! It has been interesting to see my temperatures. They are allll over the place. Granted I have not been very anal about taking them at the exact same time every day like I was before. I guess we will see what happens...I am interested to see exactly which day I will start my period, because right now it's saying that I didn't ovulate until day 15, which is kinda late for me. So I am wondering how long my luteal phase will be, and when I will start my period. I am pretty sure it's coming because my temps dropped like crazy over the past three days, which is odd too because according to FF I am only 7 dpo, and compared to other charts they typically don't drop until like 10 dpo...another reason why I think my estimated O date is "wrong." Another reason I want to make sure I keep charting is because if I eventually have to go to my doc, she wanted to see my charts. Just in case I suppose. Oh well...just thoughts for now. Like I said, nothing too new! I am excited for summer and what it may bring. The weather has been awesome the past couple days. I love Michigan summers!

I am super stoked.

I just spent like 400 of my coke rewards points on magazines.

(Yes I know, I'm a nerd, I do coke reward points.)
The funny thing is, we don't even drink soda.
A couple of years ago my friend and her husband thought it would be funny to start collecting them for me as well after I started collecting them at my old job. Now I have bags of them in a closet at home. It's ridiculous really.

Well today I had some free time at work and put in 120 points worth (that is all they will allow in a week time period.) And then I spent them all.

Sometime within 4-6 weeks we will start receiving our one-year subscriptions to:

Better Homes and Gardens
and
Entertainment Weekly

Woo hoo! I can't wait!