Putting It In Perspective

Our garage door broke and cost hundreds of dollars to be fixed.

Jake's truck needed almost $1,000 of repairs yesterday.

We still have over $3,000 left to pay for our IVF.

Our savings is completely drained.

PIO injections make me cry every night.


But we got our miracle.


I still feel like the most blessed girl in the world.

Utterly Overwhelmed- and I'm not even doing injections yet

So the med cache will be delivered tomorrow, to Jake's work. He decided it would be much easier than with the prying eyes and wagging tongues at my work (all those female teachers that love to gossip and create drama, you know?) and I agree, completely. $2,050 later, we are the proud parents of lots of needles. Let the bills begin. There was a little bit of stress involved with returning the company's call though, but it wasn't that bad. The good news is that the amount is $450 less than our RE's estimate sheet! Wonderful! I hope all the estimates are more than the actual costs.

Side note- I did tell Jake that we could charge all the IVF costs to his Cabe.la's card since the money is in our savings and we could just take it out when the statements arrive. I think he's already fantasizing what he can buy with all his points. Hey- if not a baby, at least something good will come out of this, I guess. My vote is for a canoe.

While in the midst of trying to get a delivery date/time set for our meds and playing phone tag, my plan B acupuncture place called and said they had a cancellation for Friday- and I could have the time slot if I wanted. I said yes!(since plan A was a letdown) and then went about trying to figure out how to leave work at 12:30 on Friday. Thank goodness for student teachers is all I have to say about that.

I'm also getting into the thick of end-of-school work: like testing, report cards, record keeping, attempting to get some things ready for fall, figuring out a game plan for packing up and closing out my room... so my mind is spinning and thinking about a gazillion things at once.

*big breath* Man, a nice 3 day weekend will be a great escape.

Randomness

I'm not feeling very motivated or creative today- just having a lazy, blah Saturday. I did want to update on my current $ projections for our upcoming IVF though: We're only about $500 short now of the estimate! And that is fantastic news!

Also, Jake had his communicable disease tests last week and my communicable disease tests are on Tuesday... so hopefully after that I'll start feeling like we are doing something to get out of BFA land (BFA= Big Fat Abyss, according to Bottoms Off and On the Table) rather than just sitting around and doing nothing.

I also realized that I have not talked about my fur children yet, gasp! Bella and Benelli are my replacement babies for now. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure:

Bella (the yellow lab) is a lot bigger now, but this is one of my favorite pictures of our two pups.

See how good Benelli would be with kids?

And one more of Bella just to be fair.