New News!

There is an exciting and important (to me at least) new post on the new blog.  If you are not already following, and very few are, here is where you will find it:

http://aplannedlife.wordpress.com/

Hope everyone is doing well out there in blogworld!  :)

An Update

It has come to my attention that very few followers actually followed me to the new blog.  I miss the support and friendship I once had.  I have found many of you on FB and we are able to chat all the time, which has been great!  I realize I've been reading other people's blogs and not commenting lately but I'm not sure why really.  Anyway, I thought I would share the post below to update those that don't know what is new in our lives (it was originally posted on my new blog, but most of you didn't follow me to the new one last spring) : 

I went back and forth on if I would start trying for baby number two in August or September this time around.  After doing some very difficult math, ok, after putting the date of my July period into a due date estimator on the internet, I had made my decision.  When I had Eyes, I was able to take off eight weeks because of my c-section (otherwise it would have been six weeks).  It was nice to have the time with him, but it was too short.  I also ended up missing the first two weeks of school, and felt like I was a bit clueless to policy changes for the entire year (though in hindsight that might have just been new-mom-fog).  I would prefer to time baby number two differently.  Preferably, in a dream world, I would end up taking time off at the end of the year and then the baby would be a bit older when he/she attends daycare for the first time.

So, I had my first IUI on Sunday...or is it my fourth IUI?  Do I count the IUI attempts from when I had Eyes too?  Either way, I have to say that two days later, I find myself very moody and impatient with some mild crampiness.  I have said for awhile now, I don't feel like this August attempt will work, and I feel good about the September attempt.  It would be a pretty amazing miracle if this attempt works.  It was a strange cycle where aunt flo visiting longer than normal, and I ovulated several days later than usual.  I waiver back and forth whether it worked or not.

When I was TTC for Eyes, I felt so nervous about all of it; the TTC process, pregnancy, motherhood, SMC.  This time I felt nervous excitement going into the actual IUI.  When Dr. B had finished the procedure, I laid there in the quiet for a few minutes.  I started to happy-cry a bit.  Eyes has been such a wonderful blessing, the idea of having another child feels like such an amazing gift.  I don't feel the fear this time, just the joy of being a mom.  I feel a calm that I didn't feel before, and I know that whatever the outcome, we will be ok.

If you are interested in keeping up with us, the new blog is:

aplannedlife.wordpress.com 

Blog House Warming!

I'm trying really hard to make my new blog feel like home.  This old blog always was very comforting to me.  Please stop by at my new blog for a house warming!  I am writing new posts, and miss all my old friends.  You don't even need to bring a casserole or dessert!

http://aplannedlife.wordpress.com/

Moving Blogs-Please Follow!

I love the SMC blog community, and it is one of the reasons I have avoided moving the blog in the first place.  For a long time, I was writing this blog and the only one reading it.  At that time I was part of the adoption community and hadn't discovered the SMC world just yet.  Over time, I have discovered so many other women that I have so much in common with.  It was reading those blogs that helped me learn what I needed to do to get pregnant in the first place!

So, to say I'm sad that I'm going to shut down this blog, is an understatement.  I know that some of my followers, that I have made a connection with over time, will probably not follow me to the new blog.  I hope many of you will find me again.

I am currently in the (very slow) process of moving my blog over to word press.  It is going to take a long time to move all of these old posts, partly because I seem to be interested in reading things from back then, and partly because I am doing it will playing with barn animals and blocks with Isaac!  I will eventually be adding password protections to some of my posts.  I'm even debating going public with my blog (except the passworded posts obviously).

If you would like to follow me (please, please, pretty please!!!), you can find my new blog over at:

http://aplannedlife.wordpress.com/

Pissed Off-Going Private Soon or Shutting Down Blog

I noticed some odd spikes in my blog traffic after my last post.  It was a boring post, and I wasn't really expecting any big traffic to it, which is pretty much what happened.  It had a few trickles of people here and there, but then had random spikes yesterday and today (even though the post was from last weekend).  When I went to look into why, I discovered that my blog had been linked in a popular infertility and adoption website with a description that wasn't written by me....without my permission.  Upon further inspection, I discovered that even though I have my privacy settings set to not allow search engines to find me, I was now searchable.  You see, it turns out there is a website called Bloglovin.com that is essentially a pinterest for blogs.  Somehow the ENTIRE contents of my blog are now on that website.  Which now causes my blog to be found, in entirety, on that website.

I am pissed.  I have shared some very personal information about myself and my son (which I now realize was a mistake).  My son is a minor, and that alone should make what they are doing illegal.  This website does not have my permission to share my personal blog in that manner.  I attempted to figure out how to remove my blog from it, and it isn't possible unless I go private.

I urge all of you to check into searching for your blog and really look into whether your blog is as private as you think it is.  Actually, upon closer inspection many of the SMC blogs I follow are also on this Bloglovin.com website.

This blog has allowed me to meet so many amazing people, but I one of the greatest things about it, is that I have been able to truly share my thoughts and experiences without worrying that anyone IRL would read it unless I decided they could.

I had debating moving away from blogger for a while now, but am so technically illiterate that I didn't really think to much about the switch over.  I would greatly appreciate any and all recommendations for other blog formats in which I can have stronger privacy settings without going all or none.