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I was asked to post a pic of myself. I searched and searched and couldn't find anything from my own camera back through November. Then I remembered that my SIL sent me a CD of pics from her camera. She took this pic of me on Thanksgiving morning. I had made the toast for the stuffing and I was shredding it into a bowl. She was joking that I had made too much toast for everybody. I think I used 2 entire loaves.

Here is my middle child, age 7, doing what he loves best. He loves climbing trees and playing baseball. Can you believe how big he has gotten?

I had a conversation with my XH this weekend at the Little Leage field that caused me to think. He was going on and on about the state of the world and the war. I nodded and made noises like, "hmmmm" and "uh huh". Then he said that the young men that go off to war don't understand that it's not all that glamorous. I said, "yes, being killed means that you are under the ground. That is not good." He said that there were worse things than dying. He said, "how would you like to lose both legs?" I disagreed on that point and said that I would rather lose both legs and stay alive than be dead. Although that was the end of the discussion, I though about it later. My father is an amputee. He lost his left leg 4 inches below the knee in 1979 due to a motorcycle accident. I remember visiting him in the hospital at Kaiser in northern California. I took the bus across town by myself at age 13. It took the doctors a while to take off his...

I was hoping to have a later ovulation this month because of coming off of the injects cycle, and I'm getting my wish. My big pg last year was the second month following injects. That ovulation was in the mid to late range for me and resulted in the strongest pg yet. The really early ones tend to make so little hcg that they hardly register on the tests. I think the follicles are exposed to progesterone on the prior cycle and that is not good for them. So I'm not at all bothered to sit here waiting for things to get cranked up. Super busy weekend planned. Opening day and picture day tomorrow for Little League. And today I'm driving 2 hours each way to pick up my daughter from UCLA. She is coming home this weekend because our cell phone contract is up, lol. She has been dying to change carriers. She says that our Cingular service is no good in the dorms, and that her friends on Verizon have better reception. It's pretty important because nobody has land phones...

I have been scrambling today to get things organized for the Little League team. Talk about getting my mind off of other things. Here is a copy of the email I sent to the families today: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Families, Here is the latest update on Little League stuff: 1) This Saturday is the Opening Day party and Picture Day. Have your player in full, clean uniform and lined up at the photography area by 10:55am. The pancake breakfast starts at 8am. The mayor will throw the first pitch. There will be a dunk tank, parade of teams and guest speakers. The ceremonies begin at 11:30am. This will be at Travis Ranch Field. Here is more picture day info that was sent to me by the team mom leader: " EYLLL will provide, at no cost, to each player, one 3-1/5x5 photo, four wallet size photos, one 5x7 team picture and one photo button. If no additional photos are ordered, only the top portion of the photo envelope needs to be filled out. If additional photos are ordered, they must be pa...

I'm trying to keep things busy over here. I need to keep my mind off of you-know-what. To that end, I'm going strong as Team Mom for my 7-y-o's Little League Coach Pitch team. I ordered the team banner this week. He looks SO cute in his little uniform and games start in March. I'm giving him time off from after-school tutoring at Score! in order to make time for the practices. It's working fine and he is doing well in school. I'm working on Tuesday and Thursday mornings in the office, doing medical reports/paperwork for my DH's medical practice. I have been finding that there are some things that were allowed to slide over my extended maternity leave. The large silk plants in the reception area hadn't been dusted in years. And ditto for under the desks and such. Unacceptable. The cleaning crew is going to be replaced. I'm also hanging new pictures on the walls and clearing out the boxes of archives that have collected in odd places. Thin...

I was a zombie yesterday. My old friend from UCLA days called to chat (until 1am). It turns out that she is good friends with Barack Obama. After she graduated from UCLA she went on to Harvard Law School, and served on the Harvard Law Review while Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. They became friends. So she is scrambling around doing lots of stuff for his campaign. The fun part is that she called back today to see if my daughter, who is now attending UCLA, wants to volunteer for the campaign to help out at rallies and such. I called DD and she wants to very badly, but she is busy this coming Tuesday. So I forwarded her information and maybe she can help out at a future event. It is all very exciting. This lady has led much more of a jet-setting life than me. She goes to England to tour the set of Harry Potter during filming. I think she likes to bounce ideas off of me because I lead a quiet suburban life. I'm not even a democrat. ;-) Here are pict...

I am trying to focus, yet again, on regaining my health/body/weight. I gained the same 3 pounds back last month with the injects. I got a home blood pressure cuff last week, which is fun to play with. I have been taking everybody's blood pressure, including the kids. They love it. My blood pressure is good. Then I decided to check my blood sugar a few days in a row because I remember reading that the prednisone can change blood sugar readings, and I had some insulin intolerance show up at the 2-hour mark on my glucose/insulin test last year. My fasting blood sugar was 92 this morning, which was OK, but it was 98 yesterday morning, which is 2 points away from pre-diabetes. The problem probably came from the fact that I had a Jelly Belly Sours feeding frenzy the night before. I think I need to give up candy. Or find a way to make sure that I never eat more than 5 pieces at one sitting. That is hard, though. It's like trying to eat one potato chip. I went for a really...

I had convinced myself that all of those hpt lines on the Accuclears were evaps, even though they were much darker than the prior evaps I had seen on that brand. I know differently now because I passed membranes last night. I showed them to DH and he agreed. It was a triangle of tissue about 2 inches by 1.5 inches, with on corner more magenta colored and more cream colored on the other side. Typical membranes. The one part that has me baffled is that my beta was negative. I know it was a very weak pregnancy, but the beta should have shown somewhere between 4 and 5, with the kind of hpt lines I had been getting. But whatever. It was another pg that was going nowhere. What else is new, right?

This is my first attempt at posting on my new "outside" blog. I hope this works. Thank you for checking on me here.