okay = you all were right, the suspense was killing me and so I took the test. It was negative...only one line, I need 2 damnit !! :lol: I just don't know. I am going to call a few OB's that are in my area tomorrow and see if I can find one to make an appointment. I think I really need to get to see one, I don't really have any TOM feelings and now I am at least a week late...but I am irregular too. I can't tell if all the "symptoms" are in my head or not......I think my boobs are extra tender, I feel extra tired, I was dizzy but only for that few days and such, but I don't know. I want to be pregnant, so I don;t know if I am just telling myself all those things are worse than usual. One thing is though, TOM is no where in site! NOt sure whatelse it could be,I think I am going to do a little research on the web, to see if anyone else has had the same situation and what the outcome is. thanks for all the hgih hopes...sorry to say, I guess you all will have to wait until I get the blood test, which I think will be next since these home ones aren't showing me what I want to see! :lol: :) :) I'll be back !! :)

Kristin, I am so sorry. You sound like me. I'm very, very, VERY irregular and with my first two I wanted to be pregnant SOOOOO bad that I would take test after test after test and if I thought I had any symptons, I think they were in my head. I know this is easier said than done, believe me I know, but it seems like the more you WANT to be pregnant the less likely it happens. It always happens when you least expect it.
Try this, it worked for me EVERY time, don't think about getting pregnant, instead think about losing weight. It's easier to get pregnant when you lose weight, again that has happened to me EVERY time. Just focus on what you want to look like and getting there and try hard. I'll bet in the next month or so you'd be pregnant if you didn't think about it.
It will happen when it's time to happen, don't forget.

thanks for your kind words Crystal ! :) You hit the nail on the head about really wanting to be pregnant. I went to ivillage and joined a message board there, apparently there are LOTS of other woman who are experiencing the same thing I am ! I also looked at some of their outcomes and about 16 of them had the same thing as me and they all turned out pregnant! :) so I am not getting optimistic about being pregnant again, actually now, focusing on just being healthy, and I will get the blood test as soon as I find an OB (which will be this week) and I will know for sure....if its not that, I hope I have some answers, as long as I am healthy that is all that matters. I am trying not to think about the bad things it could mean like endometriosis (sp) and such.....just hurry up to wait! :) thanks again, that was very kind of you!

Hi to everyone else out there...ya'll are quite here today! :) This is my last post until tonight. I will get on later after dd is in bed. THis is my first night alone, dh left this morning ! :cry:

Okay, so I did decide to get the second stroller blanket. But I'm getting it in Charcoal color because that will better match both Liam's strollers. That is our birthday gift for him :) THe power came back on around noon (hooray!). It was out for about 7 hours I guess . . . the freezer was starting to "melt" and there was a puddle forming on the kitchen floor :( In other news, I have gotten through about 1/2 my list of chores for today so far. DH came home around 2:30pm and then I went to the grocery store and to mail packages.

Crystal, I hope Andrew improves ASAP :)

Spryng- it sounds like both you and DH are nervous about how his being hom emight impact yourrelationship. It sounds like you both have independent streaks and want to assert your individuality LOL. But do ya'll have a VCR? You could tape programs that way and divide up which get taped and which get watched. We have Tivo and love it :) But DH cares a lot less about TV than I do, and the shows he does like, I watch too.

Kristin- is Sydney feeling better?

Jill- :bravo: on the workout. I bet you felt wonderful when they noticed your loss :D DH will cover Ivan only if he heads toward the US, but not if it hits Mexico or somewhere else. But if he does return to FL, I think I'm going to go with him and stay on whichever coast the Hurricane is NOT hitting.

Kristin- it is possible for a negative result to be wrong, so I'll keep sending positive thoughts your way. And, if not this month, then another month, right :) ((hugs))

Okay . . . TTYL!

And just when you thought I couldn't post any more . . . LOL. Well, had dinner, the kitchen is clean, table still uncluttered and clean . . . dishes being washed. Laundry done for the day, trash out . . . I'm doing so well with my new cleaning schedule. I wish I could do this well staying OP!!!

Good job Leigh! Pass some of it along to me, I'm having a hard time today but I'm visiting with my sis so I guess it's ok! Talk to you all later!!

Hello again!

Just got finished with dinner and I am stuffed! That chicken avocado swiss melt was HEAVEN!!! I got me a small piece since I had a feeling it would be really good and that was a smart move because half way through I was feeling full but couldn't quit eating! LOL! But I know I'll be just fine. I'll post the recipe if anyone wants it. The kids just scraped the avocado off and ate the cheese and chicken. (I ate their avocado too, lol)
I did get my exercise in!!! Today Denise focused on the thighs and legs. A killer leg workout! I'd like to do one more workout tonight after the kids go to bed... but I may have to do it sooner because Amazing race comes on tonight when the kids go down so I'll tape it and won't be able to pop in my workout tape... hmm... maybe I'll try to exercise at 6 pm or something... run the kids outside so they are out of the way? I was reading that if you want to exercise only 3 days a week it needs to be an hour each workout... well, I get about 20 min (when you fast forward through commercials) each workout, 40 min if I combine both her Lite and Fit workout and her Daily workout. So maybe I need to start doing both workouts everyday and add one extra day. What do you think??

Leigh, so glad your electricity came back on! Yes we have a vcr but we don't know how to set it up where I can tape one channel and watch another channel. We just have regular cable so I don't know if it's possible. But we may get direct tv and Tivo allows you to do that right? That would solve alot of problems. Dh and I don't really fight but I can get territorial about my tv and he does the same when he's home, lol.

Kristin, you may not have enough HCG in your system for the test to pick up yet. Give it a few more days and definitely get in to see an OB. With tanner I tested the day my period should have hit... and I thought I was making up a second line! LOL! It was so very faint you had to hold it in the light to see it. I called Dh to come home and look and he saw the line too so my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. It just annoyed me because with the other two it was always bright pink lines with no mistaking a positve pregnancy and this one made me wonder. So I went in to a free clinic and had them test me and it was very very faint on theirs too but they sad a line is a line and you're pregnant!! Then I got excited! I was so afraid that faint line was a fluke, lol. So I am keeping my fingers crossed for you! How soon did you test with your first one and was it positive on the first try?

Jill, what did you do at the gym today? Do you do the same thing everyday? They are building a new fitness center here and I'm trying not to get too excited, lol. I hope it has a daycare in it and then I'll join!!! But if not then my livng room floor will work, lol. Congrats on getting into a size 10!!! Just think, 10 more lbs off and you can be an 8!! You are so close!

Well, I guess I should get off here. TTYL!

Jill- are you having fun with your sister?

Spryng- LOL. You sound like me with the preg test. The first one I took, the line was soooo faint. I began to tremble and ran first to one window, and then another to see it in the light. I think that's why I took 4 tests befire my first appointment LOL.

TTYL

Hey everyone hope you are all having a great day. My sis just went over to help my mom with the salad for tonight, we are all going over there for dinner later. Anyway I have gotten nothing done because she was here but oh well I don't have anything to do tomorrow so I will get a lot done then.

Spryng I lift weights on M,W,F and do cardio T, TH and whenever else I can. It's a good program that I know works for me. I started it when I was doing Body For Life and it seems to work good so I stick with it. Since the gym was closed yesterday I decided to do weights today instead of cardio because it had been awhile since I lifted. I did upper body and I can tell I will be sore. I focus on chest, shoulders, back, biceps and triceps and then do a little ab work. Anyway that's my workout!!

Kristin the same thing happened to me with Bayley. I had taken a test cause I was late (and hoping) and it was neg. and I had been trying for a couple months or so and was starting to get cold feet about the whole thing so I decided that it was good I wasn't preg. Then I started school again and was really tired and still hadn't had my period but my cycles are usually 35+days apart so I wasn't too worried but took one at the end of the week and it was pos. I couldn't believe it! It was like as soon as I thought it was good I wasn't preg. I was! Anyway I know it will happen when it is supposed to and sometimes your body has PMS symptoms that are really preg. symtoms so you just never know. I'm sending you luck though!!

Hey girls
 

The weather here is lovely today...NOT! I had to rescue a friend who locked herself out of her house in the rain, so my day had a major change. I haven't been home long. I am so sore, thank God the weather is rotten, I couldn't walk today, LOL!! I will do some stretches and some weight training this evening to try to get this soreness down...if not, tomorrow is gonna be awful!!!!

We are having chili for dinner, and I had a sub sandwich for lunch while I was out! Not the best choice, but yummy anyway!

I want what Spryng had!! I will have to make it really soon!!

I'll get more personal later when I have a calmer home!! That may never happen huh!!!!

Hope you all continue to have a great evening...I will need to clean like crazy tomorrow!! I may do some this evening! I can't stand it at all!

Love,
Me!!

Cindi sorry your day was weird, I'm glad your sore though it means you are getting a good work out in! Just don't overdo it. I hope your weather clears up. I feel kind of guilty since all this hurricane and bad weather over there and we are sunny and 80!

BTW I forgot to tell you all that I am finally going to start that suvaril to see if it works, I had to stop nursing first and since I am done now I figured I would start it. However at the first feeling of weirdness I am going to stop taking it cause I hate that feeling. I remember I used to take hydroxycut before they took the ephedra out of it and it made me feel weird, I stopped taking it after my friend Steve died from it (he was the Orioles pitcher that died a year or so ago, do you remember?) scares me to death to think I was taking the same stuff! I can't believe they let stuff like that be sold without more research. Anyway wish me luck, I am losing good anyway but thought if this gave me an extra push then it's always good.

Ok need to get to mom and dad's for dinner. I'll talk at ya all when I get back!

Oh ya Spryng I found your recipe for the avocado swiss chicken on the core board and am going to make it on Thurs. I am so excited!! Ok TTYL

HI Ladies...

I wanted to comment on the Suvaril. I took it for a couple days and never felt anything but not sure if it was working. I think it is more like a vitamin then anything...

I am gonna say that I am going to the Professional Weight Loss Clinic tomorrow. I have an appointment. I am getting put back on some prescription weight loss meds. I took a one month prescription but never went back for more. But I am screwing up so bad that I need to get some help.

They do all the moderating of your blood pressure and you see the doctor ever time. So anyway... I know some agree and some don't but I always say to each their own, right!

I just know I am so tired of being fat and I need some help!

Evening! Well, I'm just killing time until Six Feet Under. It comes on at 11pm here. I didn't watch it on Sunday so I could watch it with DH. Hopefully we can stay awake LOL. Well, Tivo will tape it anyway. So I'm watching true crime shows and checking in with you gals until then.

Jill- I know you may already have mentioned this before, but I do not remember- does the gym have daycare? I do remember the Orioles pitcher dying from that- so sorry :( He was your friend? That would be scary. That's part of why I'm freaked out by anything over-the-counter for weight loss. But I guess if you research it very well or talk to your doc.

Penny- I think it's great that you're taking a step in the right direction for yourself. Let us know how it goes. I've been doing badly too. I keep going over and over in my mind why I'm in this self-defeating cycle when I'm halfway there already. I keep telling myself that it's all about choices, and I know how to make the right ones. But that doesn't seem to stop me from making the wrong ones :(

TTYL . . .

Hello Ladies,
I'm back! :D I've been dealing with TOM and it's been a hard week.My PMS is so hard for me sometimes.I just can't seem to get my emotions under control sometimes.I'll snap at the kids and put a wall up to try and block everyone out.I hate it when I act like that.I'm so blessed to have the kind of family I have and I act like it's not good enough.I get so mad at myself.But on a good note.Tom is still here and I did a WI and I'm down to 167.5.Don't know how I have'nt been tring and lord knows i've been eating everything in sight.Thanks to TOM.I thought the scales might be broken,but dh weighed himself and it was right.So I guess it's accurate.
Anyhow,I just scanned over the posted.I think one of the QOTD was something about having tatoos.Well I have 3 mykids names on the back of my shoulderblade,I have a heart with devil horns(because my name is Angel)
in the small of my back,and I have my name on the inside of my right ankle.I really love tatoos their very addictive I think.
And today's QOTD:My first kiss was riding in the back of a truck with all my friends and my "new boyfriend" coming home from their house and everyone else was kissing and we got tired of watching so we just figured we'd do it to.
I know thats so romantic right/lol :lol:
Well,I'm going to make more of an effort to post more often.I told ya'll I have a problem with consistancy.Hopfully i'll get it all figured out one day.
hope everyone has a nice night.I'll post more later.It's raining like crazy here right now and it's not suppost to stop for 24 more hours so if you see me floating by just wave at me. :lol: ttyl

Hi everyone!

I found the thread I was looking for :)

I am a SAHM to my son who is 6 and my baby girl who is seven months today. *sniff*

:) We live in WA State. :)