Skip to main content

2 Weeks until halfway...

The time is passing quickly.  The end of June is almost here and that also means the approach of the halfway mark in our surrogacy journey.







Our surrogate is incredibly sweet. She sent me a Penn State onesie for the baby and a book from Jimmy Fallon, Your baby's first word will be Dada. Adorable book. And the onesie really made me emotional...so much joy.

I have to say that occasionally it feels really real to me and other times I even forget that our baby is actually a physical thing. (I mean I know its coming...I know that for sure with every project that I do but sometimes it feels just like a really great idea)

But those days when I'm not even aware what's going on, our surrogate will send us a little message in a group text. 

Its always wonderful to hear the reality of the fetal heartbeat. Its amazing. I honestly can't tell you exactly how it feels, but I know that my own heart rate slows and my blood pressure goes down.  I try to listen to it as much as I can when I'm stressed which is more and more often...(in my defense there was a lot of crap that's gone down at our house in the last week or so that's driven me nearly insane)

A few of the things...
The video card in my computer kicked the bucket...in the process of diagnosing what the issue was we wiped everything. But thankfully I keep backups and Not much was lost...

How about that plumbing fiasco while I was trying to install our new garage door opener? The water wasn't even running that long...only 10-maybe 20 minutes.
And after all of the issues and problems...I got the garage door opener up and functioning.
Now I'm hoping by the end of the week we'll have sheetrock up in our kitchen. And I will feel incredibly better about that. There are still little things that need to happen, but for now...THAT piece will make it all feel almost finished.

I NEED TO GET WORKING ON THE NURSERY!!






Comments

  1. This is an incredible journey. You two are soundly entering the parent world! You already juggle work, home improvements, recreation baby things & time for self very well. Parenting will be a joy!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Add comma, between recreation & baby... :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

National Coming Out Day

I totally didn't even realize today was national coming out day! We took a picture to mark the occasion.  A lot of people post and share their stories today.  Sharing their struggles and their triumphs over the hurdles, or even walls, surrounding the ability to live their truths.  Dustin and I have very different stories of our coming outs.  He's been living his truth for just about a decade before I came out to my family and more importantly to myself.  Coming out is not for everyone and today is certainly not meant to give you anxiety about coming out or not. You might find yourself in a variety of situations; from being a public personality, a conservative family, your own fears and so many other possibilities. Its not always easy.  For some, yes, its easy, you grow up in a family where you know without a shadow of a doubt that you'll be accepted for who you are.  We know, better than most, that its different for everyone.  Most of all, you do you, we'll be her

New project

Every project starts with an idea and a plan. Stay tuned, the domain is just the start...

Week 24: Viability...

A lot has happened in the last month...seriously A LOT. "So why did you wait so long to post, Ryan?? "  Because I was busy!  Schedule changes at work, pushing hard to get our renovations finished, baby showers, renovations, traveling...so much happening. Let's start with travel....I don't want to bury the lead story here. We went up to Wisconsin for our 21 week anatomy scan.  Dustin flew up on a Wednesday for the Thursday morning appointment. Unfortunately July is a big vacation month for my department, and save for asking co-workers to change their vacation plans with their families...I stayed behind. It was going to be hard, but I kept telling myself that its just pictures. I will have the REST of my life to spend with Beastie.  This is a cool appointment, but its just an internal photo shoot.  What really sucked was that they wouldn't be able to shoot any pictures or video in the ultrasound room.       Fast forward to the morning of the appointment.  I tex