Last weekend of being footloose and kid free :)

Survived my first week back at work. I wish I could have taken more time off but I kinda need to save my holidays in case I them later on ;)). We still have one last weekend of being kid free before the girls come back from their dads though, so we are heading off early tomorrow morning for a fishing trip along the Murray River. We spent most of my time off just cleaning up around the house and sorting out the girls rooms. Charlie has been asking for her own room for awhile as Jazzy keeps her up at night talking, singing, crying and arguing in her sleep. Hopefully they will be happy with the new rooms we've created, but it will be interesting to see how they cope sleeping in a room on their own!

Apart from sorting things around the house, we went to visit a few of our friends for new years etc. Scout has told a number of people in her family that we are going to start TCC this year but I haven't really wanted to say too much to anyone incase we jinx it. Since we were visiting our closest friends who we haven't seen in awhile, we decided to let them in on it also, and amazingly enough we discovered that one couple we visited has also been going through the same process for the last few months! They are even using the same clinic as us! We were pretty excited to discover that they are in the same position as us right now, but also alittle freaked that using the same clinic means our friends could potentially be looking at using the same donor as us.  How freeky would that be?! I haven't quite processed that one yet. Unfortunately the excitement of discovering our friends were also TCC was somewhat tainted by hearing that they had actually gotten pregnant after two IUIs last year but had a miscarriage and are currently recovering from a curette. We were both so sad for our friends who were really putting on a brave front by being so supportive and excited about us just starting off on our journey. I guess more than anything it really highlighted for me just how long, stressful, painful and expensive this journey could be for us. As much as I want to get excited about the possibility of getting pregnant, hopefully some time in the near future, I don't want to set myself up for a big fall ... And I also don't want to see my friends have to go though this kind of loss again. Hopefully we'll both have some luck in 2012.

Anyway - we have a great weekend ahead that we plan to make the most of ... and a very busy week next week with the girls coming home, my ultrasound, our first counselling / financial appointments and a clairvoyant reading to boot!  It's going to be interesting :)