First of many steps

So somehow I wound up on the front page of kirtsy, and had a huge spike in readers and commenters last week. My blog slackness was highlighted, as many of you new readers left me lovely comments and I needed to approve them. Hi new readers!  I can be a bit slacky with the blog sometimes, but welcome, and I look forward to reading your stories.

I need to update my blog roll to include a lot of the newer blogs that I have recently started reading, and maybe make a new catagory for those of you that are now pregnant or parenting. (it seems as though most of my blogroll is now pregnant or parenting…) (Which is good, I am happy for you, really, and I enjoy reading your stories about your little ones, but I also sometimes need to read the stories of those still in the thick of it… oh I don’t need to explain, I know you understand!)

Anyway, today I took the first step towards starting IVF. . . I called my RE and set up a consult. (THIS FRIDAY!) We will have a sit down and talk about protocol, scheduling, etc, and I will get all of my instructions for getting started. I am scared, but I am trying to take this one step at a time. Right now I just need to get through the appointment and learn what the next step is.

Super-Husband was ready to take a different tactic. Over lunch this afternoon he said to just focus on the end result, and not worry about all the stuff that leads up to it.

“The end result is small,” he said. “Smaller then the dog,”  he gestured to our German Shepard mix snoozing at our feet on the dining room rug.

“I certainly hope so!” I said, “Otherwise this will be worse then I am anticipating!”

I love how he can make me laugh when I am feeling down. But I think that focusing on the end result is too much pressure. There is too much at stake… So one step at a time it is…