Not exactly a technical genius..

So until we figure out how to add in a cool side-bar link of Our History, we will have to do it the old-fashioned way...

Its seems typical to start of by introducing ourselves, so here is a bit of background on who we are and where we are in the whole process. We moved to the Boston area two and a half years ago so that W could get her doctorate. We met and ‘married’ in the Bay Area; I grew up there and we plan to go back in a couple of years. W is from around here, in fact her parents live exactly a mile from our house, so we are enjoying being near them and friends from college for the time being.

We started this whole "process", just as you would expect an academic and a book-worm would, by taking a parenting class (at our local LGBT community health center) and reading every book in the minuteman library about alternative families. W has absolutely no interest in carrying a child and both of us are committed to adoption. We talked about domestic adoption, foreign adoption and then finally getting pregnant ourselves. We started by focusing on foreign adoption, but soon realized that our ‘legally-married in MA’ status was going to make it complicated. In the end, we decided we would try to birth a child and then adopt a second (and possibly third). We broached the subject to one of our best friends and after nearly a year of discussions, we decided we were finally ready….ready for what, we didn’t know.

Our KD lives across the country, so logistics were going to be challenging. We timed our first ‘try’ around a vacation out west. When that didn’t work, he ventured out east, unfortunately a few days too late. We tried again back out west the subsequent month and then decided to take a month off.

We are both pretty Type A, so when the baby-making didn’t work out our first two tires, we were pretty shocked, disappointed and confused. There have been a lot of complicating factors (when aren’t there), so we are trying to be patient, take deep breaths and ‘keep on trekking’…..and this brings us to the present (in abridged form) -- peeing on 10 sticks, waiting two weeks..and, unfortunately, repeating...