I was very excited to start Trying To Conceive (TTC). Yes, I admit it was fun and I was giddy at the thought that one day I would have a precious baby in my arms. I starting tracking my temperature in the mornings and figuring out my optimal ovulation time. I even bought those sticks they make now that you pee on and they are supposed to tell you when you are ovulating.

Months passed, nothing. Every pregnancy test came back negative. I was disappointed, but understood that I was at a very busy point in my life and perhaps all the activity and stress was just preventing it. Well, months turned into a couple years of nothing. I had no idea that it would be so hard for me to have a baby. After the first year, it started getting to me a little. By the second year it was getting to me a lot.

My husband and I decided we needed help. We went to a doctor that specialized in reproduction and fertility. I was young, healthy, fit, the doctor was very positive that I would get pregnant, no problem. The first stage was hormone shots to help me produce eggs and ovulate. A couple days before I was supposed to ovulate they scheduled me for an ultrasound. I about fell off the table when they said I had about 9 follicles with eggs ready to burst. In my head I was thinking, With that many eggs I will definitely get pregnant and maybe even have TWINS! I was beyond happy... Until the day I took the pregnancy test, it was negative again. I was crushed, I felt like someone took a two by four to my heart. I just didn't understand why it didn't work, why wasn't I getting pregnant?

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Have a wonderful day dear followers!
Kelsey

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Hello all!

If you haven't done so already jump over to my last post, the Caramel Sweets Review and Giveaway to enter to win 1/2 pound of YUMMY Vanilla Caramels!

Coming soon this month: Review and Giveaway for Snikiddy Snacks! Keep checking the blog for this review, it should be up in the next couple of weeks.

A super cool product that I found out about today, Diamond Candles! It is a 21 ounce soy candle for $24.95 that has a ring inside...the rings are worth from $10 up to $5,000! Crazy, yes, I don't know how they are doing it, but its a really cool concept! They are doing a facebook contest, if you post on their wall that I sent you (Kelsey from Rural Mama's Sandbox) both you and I will be placed in a drawing for a FREE Diamond Candle, how cool is that! So, jump over to Diamond Candle's Facebook page and spread the love!

Also, do me a favor and Vote for my sister Keri Cook HERE!
Help her dreams come true!

Tonight Shari Criso from My Baby Experts is doing a show about vaccines, which is CRAZY because tomorrow Little Sister has a doctor's appointment for her 2 month check up and vaccinations! This came JUST in the nick of time! There is still time to RSVP so that you are eligible to win prizes during the show, so hurry over! Even if you can't RSVP in time, the show should be really interesting!

I had a busy weekend and made a quick spontaneous trip out of town for some important business... hopefully I will be able to release details about that soon... we'll see...Faith and works go hand in hand.

On another note, I've been trying to do some Pre Potty Training things with Big Sister. She still wears a diaper, but when I see signs that she is trying to go, I ask her if she needs to sit on the potty and then take her diaper off and sit her on her potty chair. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I don't think she or I are completely ready for Potty Training, but at least she is starting to get an idea that it is a good thing to sit on the potty. I am a big believer in bribery, Big Sister gets three or four Mini M&Ms if she potty's on the potty chair as a "treat". It is really hard to catch her when the time is right and cater to Little Sister as well. I'm sure it will be easy for both of us once Little Sister is a little less dependent and more content by herself.
 

Hope you have a Great Week dear followers!
Kelsey

Well, this week my baby girl has been sick. She started coughing and a couple days ago her temperature went up to 99.2 degrees F under her arm when it is normally 97.6 degrees F under her arm. Made me nervous so I called the doc. Well the receptionist tells me she is going to talk to the doc and then call me back. So....... I wait and wait and wait and finally an hour or more later she calls back and they want to see her that day. Ok no problem... so we go in. My new issue with public places: Parents that don't wrangle their kids and let them RUN all over the place! These young kids, under 3, are running all over the waiting room, snotty noses, coughing, and touching everything AND everyone! No WONDER my child is sick, it seems like every time we go in for her Baby Well Check visits about a week to two weeks later we are BACK there because she is sick, probably something that she picked up in the waiting room. Can you guess when her last Baby Well Check was? Yes, your a genius, about a week and a half before she started getting sick! I try my very hardest NOT to let my baby touch anything in the waiting room and I DO NOT let her off my lap. But these uncontrolled children are running around spreading their germs and visiting everyone in the waiting room. The last time we were there some kids came over to us and tried to grab Baby K's bottle from her diaper bag. ERG! OK so back to our visit... I go into the exam room and wait, they send in a Nurse Practitioner... which I don't really trust much, EVERY time I've seen her she says the SAME thing like it is her auto response to "Why your baby is sick" no matter who you are, it sounds practiced and recited. ERG! So she tells me my baby girl has an upper respiratory infection aka a cold...ok waste of my time, WHY tell me to come in when you could have told me this OVER THE PHONE! I did feel better after seeing "someone" better safe than sorry, but geez. So I go home without a prescription or anything to help ease her symptoms. Poor thing has a nasty cough and is raspy (BUT the Nurse Practitioner said she wasn't) her nose is running and now the snot is green. This poor child is miserable and fussy. I have made attempts to help her out, Baby Vics on her feet and chest at night, cool mist humidifier at nights, nasal suctioning before eating, and Baby Zyrect at nights...

Oh exciting news, my cloth diapers came in, YEAH! But my hubby forgot to bring them home from the office, ERG, so I will probably make a trip up to the office to get them tonight, I'm too excited to wait for him to bring them home tomorrow night when he gets home.

I made a pretty good dinner tonight, Chicken and Rice Casserole. It worked out well, but since everyone likes more or less salt I didn't add any so that they could season to taste. I also made some Butter Pecan Cupcakes with Vanilla icing, yum! :)
Have a wonderful night dear followers!