The whole nesting thing...

I hear all about this and people have asked me if I'm in that stage yet. Not really...

But the other night, I decided our bathrooms really needed a cleaning. I'm not into the whole hardcore cleaning for 3 hours, but they just needed the basics for when people come over. I don't want them to be grossed out!

So I get on my hands and knees to clean the toilet and wipe dust off the floor. How are we supposed to be nesting like crazy when it's so hard to just reach around the toilet to wipe up some cat hair? I'm not sure how these girls can clean their whole house top to bottom when I can't even carry the vaccuum down the stairs. (Anyone wanna do that for me? The family room carpet is full of cat litter.) Cleaning anything too smelly (like crusting leftover nacho cheese in a bowl) makes me sick, so that's out too. I was going to change the sheets on the bed, but that made me out of breath last time. (And really, that's a 2 person job. So much easier with a helper!)

So...I guess I'll just stick to being lazy for now : )

Picking a name

I dreaded this for months. I knew it would be a huge argument and I wasn't in the mood to argue with the Hubby over it because it was supposed to be something special. The time had come where we really needed to start working on it so I could finish up crafts and get the room done before I get too tired again.

So we're hanging out in the kitchen while he cleaned a paintbrush and he said, "Go get the list." I made a list of some of my favorite names and he looked at them once before and pretty much crossed off 80% off them. I figured this was going to go bad because he always said he didn't like any of them and wouldn't give me even one suggestion of a name he did like.

So we sit down on the couch to eat breakfast and he glances at the list. He said, "I've been thinking about Connor for the last few weeks." And I said, "I've been thinking about that same name for the last few weeks too."

"Ok, it's settled."

The discussion was over! Painless and we completely agreed!

A year ago today - July 2

A year ago today we said goodbye to our first baby.

I found out at 8 weeks that the baby stopped growing and the heartbeat stopped. I will never forget that horrible day that we found out and the agony we went through trying to understand why. We thought we were so lucky to have gotten pregnant on the first IUI and we never thought we'd be in the percentage that had to go through a loss.

It was one of the hardest experiences we've had to go through since we got married, but it brought us closer. Our heartache pushed us to lean on each other and support each other emotionally.

5 IUIs later and we finally had our little miracle! I'm so happy to put this memory in the past and move forward towards the future. Our little boy will be here in such a short time!