Friday’s transfer couldn’t have gone better. Or faster, for that matter. We were in and out in 40 minutes. Frankly, it took me longer to pick up a few things from Target yesterday than it did to defrost what could become our baby and give it a new womb home. We live in an awe-inspiring [...]

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A week or two ago - sometime during the lost days of illness - I was in the midst of writing a blog post when suddenly, the house was eerily quiet. Gone were Nola’s loud, repetitious ramblings of every book she knows. Gone were the stomping feet running up and down the hallway whenever I [...]

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It is now less than 48 hours until we have our frozen embryo transfer and I can say with gusto that I’m still not nervous. Last time we did this we were coming off 2 years of trying to get pregnant. This time we’re coming off of the joys that are raising the coolest little [...]

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Nola really loves her numbers - and taking apart puzzles. This video captures both - until my camera ran out of batteries! She can make it all the way to 13 these days, which - in my humble opinion - is pretty much all you need to know when it comes to math.

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The inhabitants of our house were consumed by a vile, disgusting illness that lasted not one, not two, but nearly three weeks. Ear infections, bronchial infections, sinus infections - name an infection that doesn’t fall under the STD category and we probably had it and/or took precautions against it.
During that time we did a lot [...]

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As most of you know, we’ve been swallowed alive by copious amounts of snow. My neighborhood got around 21 inches. Now that it’s all over and we made it through without losing power I can say that it was awesome. Especially the thundersnow.
It ended up being the 3rd largest blizzard in Chicago history, which [...]

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The whole lot of us has been taken hostage by the cold. We are, in a word, disgusting. I would hate to be around us if I weren’t me. Thankfully, that should never be an issue unless Nola and I have a Freaky Friday moment somewhere down the road. Or, worse still, a Face/Off moment. [...]

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