[stay-cation]

I really struggled to come up with a title for this post that captured the "perfectness" of today without..well, jinx-ing it.

Today was lovely! It was warm(ish) and sunny and we did our first insemination since September. And...we are feeling hopeful.

Its been a low-key weekend. Most everyone that we know is out of town so we hunkered in and planned a lot of fun local activities -- farmers market, children's museum..and..a trip out to Dr H :)

Iz and I had a nice morning together while W went and did the deed --as it were. Our friends from across town came by to drop off some baby-gear we had lent them -- they stayed for lunch while we got to play with their adorable 5 month old (bring on the baby juju). Then after a 3 hour nap (during which we chatted with said friends and then snuggled on the couch to make progress on our tivo backlog) we went for a family walk/dinner and ran into some of our favorite bloggers at the craft store in our neighborhood.

Speaking of fellow-bloggers, it seems like the chatter has picked up and we are cycling with some of our friends, many from TTC #1. Its sort of like the old 'gang' is back at it...I dont want to be overly optimistic but in so many ways this cycle was EXACTLY like our September run. W went in for blood-work and ultrasound on Friday, was told to trigger on Saturday night. BUT then she peaked on Saturday AM so triggered that night and went in a day early (today) for the insem. Our TWW will culminate on Iz's 2nd birthday -- the timing is just too perfect, but for us, too perfect is often our downfall. Our previous pregnancies arrived after very, very serious IVF talk. I know its crazy, but part of me is just so superstitious that I feel like we have to lock into our don't-jinx-it-pessimism, or else we will never get pregnant.

So for now, we are planning to take it day by day -- we will February off so that we can better plan for our Fall 2013. GRRR, I hate missing cycles but, its probably for the best.