Passing time with cookies

Yesterday I made these delicious Oreo Cookies from Sally's Baking Addiction

http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2013/12/17/homemade-oreos/

And they were absolutely amazing. I must have eaten 1/4 of the dough and filling while making them. Yummy!!!

I have had some mild cramping yesterday and in the middle of the night. Not sure if it is overeating, AF coming or perhaps I am pregnant - I really hope for the last one. The night before last, I woke up the middle of the night and sneezed. Immediately I felt pinching achy wake in my lower abdomen. Could it be??? Dare I hope???

Tomorrow is the day I've been waiting for. The TWW is almost over...

HPTs from the Dollar Store

Not entirely certain what just happened today?? I normally am able to keep pretty cool about not POAS until my blood draw - which for me is this Thursday. But today, I went kinda crazy and went out and stocked up on HPTs. Probably because I just found out, that they are available at the Dollar Store - who knew? Anyway my blood test is 11dptrigger and 12dpiui, so I got a bit nervous that perhaps I would still have some trigger remnants in my system at that point and that I would get a fake positive. Which would be not cool at all.

So when I got home from my yoga class midday, I POAS and got a negative. Granted I have been keeping up on my hydration and I am only 7dpo, so we'll see what it says tomorrow. If negative tomorrow, I think that it would be safe to assume that I am all clear from trigger shot.

I go back and forth between being really optimistic about this cycle, only to think the opposite a few hours later. I have been stalking people on their blogs and on various boards and have been happy to see a couple different people get BFP in the last few days. It makes me so happy and hopeful, that perhaps I too will be one of the lucky ones at some point. This particular TWW has been pretty long so far. The weather was been on and off miserable and there has been no holidays or anything to distract me.

....and now on to the TWW

I went in for another US on Sunday - had no idea that my Dr would schedule appointments on the weekend. Nice to know that he cares so much. The medical office building was closed, so the nurse had to meet us in the hospital lobby. And to my surprise it was the actual doctor that did the US and not the usual assistant. He took his time and showed me all of the glorious follicles. There were at least 4 follicles ready to go and others smaller ones right behind them. I triggered in the office and hubby and I went for a nice long hike afterward (a bit too long really, ~12 miles to be exact). It was a really nice day and we talked about just how lucky we are. So, we don't have kids yet, but we have each other, we are healthy, and still in love after 9 years of marriage.

Monday morning was our IUI #4. It was pretty uneventful. Felt excited and was happy to have hubby there with me for the procedure. His count was 16 million, so we will see what happens. By midday I was feeling some pain in my lower abdomen. Like from the many follicles ovulating... Appetite wasn't good and I just relaxed all day. Now there is nothing else to do but wait. On Thursday I go in for another US to make sure I ovulated and that corpus luteum looks good, and then next Thursday the 6th is the blood test. I am hopeful that 2014 will be our year!!!