O time

Ovulation Time 2.0

This is the big O week! Excited to see what happens. This feels completely different than the fist time we did this. Almost like not as much work. I guess you can say that about many things you do for the first time and consequent times it's naturally easier.

Maybe because we now know what to expect and how to read the ovulation predictor test properly. It seems to us that we had a faulty test the first time we used it because that predictor happy face was on for way longer than you should see on a regular cycle. This go around it was like clock work.

One thing I am actually very thankful for during this whole experience is how much I am learning about my wife and her body and all that jazz. Hopefully this is good for/if one day we have a daughter.

I decided that through this process there would be no fear of "jinxing" by saying something or doing something. So with that I can freely say that I am feeling pretty good about this round/cycle. I don't know what it is. It's possibly that it's felt like things aligned a little better this time around, plus how cool that she'd ovulate a week before Christmas and we'd be finding out right around new years day?

If this is the case, we'll call it Jelly Bean. That's what we decided we'd call the baby until we knew the sex whenever we got pregnant because its a little weird to call the baby "it."

This is a great and easy test to use, if you're interested this is it:
Advanced Ovulation Test

We have no big plans for Christmas, other than work gave me a whole week off which is nice. They work us hard enough the rest of the year. Its one of those industries where hours over "regular" work time is the standard and its a requirement so actually having paid time off in the form of holidays and floating holidays is a nice return on that 12 month investment. Accounting and Big 4's for the win right here.