Ar.Kan.Sas

Zach and I don't teach Summer School on Friday's so we have 3 day weekends. This weekend, we spent in Arkansas with my family. It was a LOT of fun (as you can see)... Bailey loves my parent's neighbor's little boy. He came over several times to play with her.

This is them taking a water break. I just think it is SO cute! I'm not sure her daddy is thrilled with her "boy-craziness." lol

He is so good with her. For a 7 year old he really was patient and nice with her.

I love this picture of her running through the sprinkler. She didn't like it in her eyes so she would close her eyes and start to run into the sprinkler and then wind up running around it. SO CUTE!

"Mommy, I WUV Jackson!"

Girl in the green is my 13 year old sister, Monica.

"Thank you for my hopscotch, princess sprinkler!!!"

On Saturday, my sister and I went shopping. I was THRILLED to find out that Bath.and.Body.Works was having a HUUUUGE sale! My very favorite fragrance of ALL time was on sale and they ONLY bring it out for the June sale!

"Night.Blooming.Jasmine" LOVE IT!

My sister bought me some of this and I am LOVING it too!

It's called "Tahiti.Sweetie" and it's the PERFECT size for my purse. :)

Another of my FAV's is Juniper.Breeze. But, they didn't have the lotion in stock so I am planning on taking a trip to B.&B. here in Tulsa! :) It is also ONLY available during the June sale. I was SO excited to see it! And, I just looked online and it's cheaper on the website! WOOO!

When we got home yesterday, Bailey wanted to play outside some more! So, I let her help me water the flowers. Is she not the cutest?

I told Zach that these flowers are God's gift to me. When we bought this house (back in December) we had NO idea what kind of plants these were. When they started blooming I was absolutely extatic! I LOVE day lillies. They are my favorite! When Z and I got married I wanted NOTHING more than to have Orange Day lillies as our flowers at our wedding. But, we never could find any fake ones and we couldn't afford real so I just wound up with pretty pink Gerbera daisies. But, I was always sad that I didn't get orange lillies. I know the ones in these pictures are yellow but the ones up around our house are orange. Thank you God for even thinking of the little things!

We had a GREAT weekend! Bailey has also been VERY good about going potty in the toilet! My mom bought her some new panties and she is loving them! She is still having accidents but of course we are still in early stages of this. I'm proud of her though! I hope to have her trained by the end of the summer. I hope all of you had a GREAT weekend!

Bailey's Spankin'

The other night, I told Bailey if she took her diaper off I was going to give her a spanking. She kept testing me by pulling on the tab and giggling. I must have told her AT LEAST 10 times to keep her diaper on! Eventually she pulled it off and handed it to me. So I swated her bottom. She looked at me, growled, and said "Oh geez!"

UGH! What have I created? So, we've been REALLY trying to potty train the last day or so. She's doing pretty well but she's also really good at telling me she already went pee pee in her panties instead of telling me she needs to go.

It's Summer-time

Well, kind of...

Again, we are teaching summer school. It's 16 days so I can't complain too much. I was really bored last week and we spent a TON of money that we DIDN'T have so it's good we have something to do. Last year, I only had to work half days and we were fine (of course it helped that we sold our house and made a nice chunk of money and well, this year we have an almost double house payment, lol). Anyway, I keep telling myself we are going to be fine. I know, people like to say "oh, we have no money" but really, we are on a TIGHT budget and I mean we can spend less than 16.00 per day for the next 99 days! That INCLUDES gas and groceries! Yeah, we're poor right now and my only hope is school starting again and I'm NOT ready for that. Still, we will make it. Zach's mom has a pool and hopefully I can get her potty trained and we won't be buying diapers, lol. So, that's a very small update for you. I finally had a cycle. I am trying very hard to remember my Metformin at night but sometimes I Forget. Hopefully I will have a normal cycle this time. Gotta get back to my 5th graders! :)

Until next time...

Day 6

Provera day 6....
Finally did what it was supposed to do! The side-effects were not side effects at all. I think I just felt bad in general that first night. So, for now, just mild-light spotting. I'm hoping by Wednesday I can consider it CD1! I feel good about getting to this point though. Ahhh, the joys of being a "broken" woman!

Not, Why I do it, Wednesday

Ever taken Provera?

I just started taking it last night. I know that really shouldn't be long enough for me to feel something. But, medicine REALLY effects me. I don't know why. If I am going to have a side effect it will happen almost immediately! So, last night after my first dose I felt REALLY bad. I obviously have VERY low progesterone and had blood work done yesterday to verify that I STILL have low progesterone.

But, here's something I don't understand:
My doctor explained to me that you have 2 phases to your cycle.
You have the estrogen cycle and then if you don't get pregnant you have a progesterone cycle.
This is where I get confused. She also explained to me that when you are pregnant they WANT you to produce progesterone. So, how can taking it induce a period? But, I guess they know what they are doing! Also, the bottle says, "DO NOT TAKE IF YOU ARE PREGNANT" but the doctor told me that there is a possibility I will ovulate WHILE I take it and that's ok. If I get pregnant it won't hurt the baby???

Either way, I haven't had a cycle since March. I'm looking forward to having another cycle so that I can chart if things are working well. Lets just GET ON WITH IT!

Storms/Updated :)

So, DH informed me that I had a typo in my post. I typed that she would call me in some metformin when I meant to say she would call me in some CLOMID! :)

So, I got to work this morning only to find out that school was cancelled due to the major storms early this morning. Several of the elementaries in our district didn't have electricity so they closed school. Too bad I didn't get to sleep in. But, at least I get a day off :)

Speaking of a day off... I had taken yesterday off to go to the doctor. It was time for my Oh-so-fun yearly "well-woman" visit. I went to a new doctor recommended by a friend. My friend just had a baby in January and said that she LOVES this doctor. I had NOTHING to lose because I have the WORST luck picking doctors and I knew she couldn't be worse than what I'd dealt with in the past. However, my fears were completely erased when I met the doctor. She was completely WONDERFUL! I explained all of my previous history with her. I told her about my PCOS (how I thought it was a cop-out when I was first diagnosed), I told her about my low progesterone and how I can't afford it anymore, I told her about my lack of a cycle since March and told her that DH and I would like to have another baby. She listened! Really listened! I have to go in to have some blood work done but only because it's been so long since I've had any. But, she gave me some provera to start my period, upped my Metformin, and then she said some magical words... If you are not pregnant in 3 months, we will call you in some CLOMID! I said, 'THANK YOU!" She said it was completely up to ME what route I choose to take. She said she doesn't need me to wait the usual year before starting fert meds considering I have a 2 1/2 year old and I've been through all of this before. I'm THRILLED. She was GREAT! I'm so thankful to have found her! I feel like this is one "Storm" in my life that is being removed!

I leave you with this: "Princess Benji"

(our dog is a boy, Bailey wanted him to be a princess) :)

MIA

I know it's been forever. Hello blog world (all 5 of you, lol). I know I've been missing and today I just don't feel like posting but I promise to post sometime this weekened. I'm fine, just been busy and really tired!