Birthdays, Time at home, Back to work

Wow! It's been a month PLUS since my last update! I guess you can say that no news is good news?

My birthday was on the 21st of April! I love my birthday so much! I've always had theme birthdays and started counting down in January. This year I had a bunch of friends over for food and Wii fun! My darling husband bought me The Family Feud game for the Wii and I think everyone had fun playing it! Thanks for making my day so special, guys!

I really, really enjoyed my time when I was "working" from home. Actually, I didn't have a lot of work to do which gave me time to perfect my wifely duties. I became an excellent menu planner, cook, social director, interior decorator and, my new favorite hobby, florist! My parents brought a bunch of Iris plants for my flower bed and they also bought me hydrangeas. I'm in heaven! I can't wait until they start blooming!!!

I started traveling back to Alabama last week. It has been a major adjustment! It's hard getting up at 4:30 in the morning when your used to sleeping in until 8 am! I'm just glad that I have made such a great friend, Erica, who makes the transition a little easier. We've done a lot of exploring of Montgomery this week! We found some "cute" neighborhoods and restaurants that we want to try out. I should be working here every other week until the end of August.

Not much news on the IVF front...I was able to get into the geneticist a MONTH early! She was really neat to talk to. She worked at Mayo in Rochester and has a lot of experience working with patients with TCS and other chraniofacial issues. I had my blood work down and am now waiting for the results. She thought it would take 4 weeks at the longest...which means only 2 more weeks to wait! Once we receive the results, we'll send them off to The Genesis Genetics lab in Detroit and they will start their process (which takes 10 weeks). Once they've done all they need to do (I really have NO clue what they do...), then we'll be ready to start testing my embryos. We are taking our IVF class on June 10th (Mom's birthday!). After we take the class, they sit down and map out our schedule-when we start the drugs, what appointments we have, etc. My insurance drops off the end of July and we can submit the pre-auth to David's insurance as soon as that happens. So things are starting to come together....slowly but surely!