June 2009 Weddings
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Highs and Lows of our first married Holidays
Since we're all still off and on from the holidays, I like these catch up posts.
What has been the highlight of your holidays?
What has been the lowlight?
Re: Highs and Lows of our first married Holidays
Highlight: Doing all my wrapping, decorating, and other preparations with DH
Lowlight: Trying to work in time with both families at the same time
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DX: MFI
IUI#1 8/2012: BFN
IUI#2 9/2012: BFN
IUI#3 10/2012: BFN
IVF#1 (2 embryos transferred) 1/2013: BFN
IVF#2 (2 embryos transferred) 5/2013: BFP!!! EDD 1/24/14
Beta 1 (5/17) - 66.8 Beta 2 (5/21) - 341 Beta 3 (5/27) - 2771
1st u/s 6/7 - measuring right on track at 7 weeks with 144 bpm!
1/20/14 - Our sweet girl joined our family!
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I'll start:
Highlight: DH loved his gift that I was debating whether it would be nice enough when he blew our gift-limit for me. And his gift to me was perfect.
Lowlight: DH is a bad flyer, and decided he was too freaked out to fly after the potential terrorist plot. So after spending Christmas at his family's house, I flew by myself to my family rather than us come together. Now I'm here alone and I've missed all the family and friend gatherings
ETA: OOOO too slow! lowlight!
Highlight: Getting our dog back home. Getting some time with DH. Getting to see family and a few friends. An inadvertent hightlight is getting to come off the BCP a few weeks earlier than expected...exciting, but kind of a holy crap moment.
Lowlight: Traffic on the drives between VA and MA.
BFP#2 2.5.11 (EDD 10.15.11) DS born 9.28.11 due to Pre-E
BFP#3 10.2.12 (EDD 6.12.13) MMC 11.24.12 @11.5w, had passed in 7th week
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Highlights: Having our first home to celebrate the holidays in. Hosting both Christmas Eve & Christmas Day dinners for our families.
Lowlights: H is pretty sick (which never happens) but he was a trooper. My mom didn't think I could pull off having a Christmas dinner and blew up a few times and made a few crappy comments but overall I did a great job and I know it!
Dx: MFI, unexplained recurrent miscarriages
IVF w/ICSI #1 (December 2010): m/c at 6w4d
IVF w/ICSI #2 (April 2011): c/p
FET #1 (July 2011): m/c at 7w3d
IVF w/ICSI #3 (October 2011- new clinic): BFP.
Lainey was born on June 13, 2012 via c-section at 37w3d!
Highlight - Spending Christmas morning with my family for the first time in 3 years. We've spent the last 3 with the ILs and I didn't realize how much I missed my mom's french toast. I'm so pitiful I actually shed a tear over french toast.
Lowlight - Umm. Wanting to slap SIL when she starting bawling and saying "I just know Matt (her ex) would have proposed to me this Christmas! I just know it. And now we're broken up and my life is over."
Highlight - Being able to see my in-laws and my mom on Christmas for the first time in four years. Being able to see my brother on Christmas for the first time in five years.
Lowlight - everything I could ever express regarding my father. He decidedly tainted Christmas and today, which is B and my 7th dating "anniversary", which we still consider a special day. I really have no words for that.
Highs:We both did great with our gifts this year and managed to not blow a lot of money.
Lows: We had to run to FIVE different places Christmas day. Plus on Christmas Eve. I feel so blessed to have all our family so close together, but it was overkill.
BFP #1: 6.26.12 EDD: 2.11.13 missed m/c: 7.31.12 @ 12 weeks
BFP #2: 10.1.12 EDD: 6.11.12
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We had to run to three different places...it really doesn't give you a chance to enjoy any time with anyone, does it? I started really hinting around that it would be nice if we could just make a set time not on the day of for his family to meet up, and one for mine to meet up. Something in early December, or maybe January. I figure if I hint at it now then maybe in a year or two they'll actually listen...
BFP#2 2.5.11 (EDD 10.15.11) DS born 9.28.11 due to Pre-E
BFP#3 10.2.12 (EDD 6.12.13) MMC 11.24.12 @11.5w, had passed in 7th week
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Highlight- getting to see how excited our neice and nephew were while opening gifts.
Lowlight-Being stuck in MN and missing out on Christmas Eve with my family.
Highs: Spending time with my family for Christmas with my sister and her FI being able to make it.
Lows: DH being sick while we were in Iowa and all the travelling - in the snow - it took twice as long as it should have and then still having to go to Christmas with the ILs when we got home last night, which we of course were late for, and then having to go back to work so early this morning when I'm supposed to be on vacation.
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highlights: seeing both families with everyone in an awesome mood. all gift giving attempts a success!! i got a new coffee maker (which was on my registry) as a gift from my sister.
lowlights: DH and I made an attempt to have a night out alone on Christmas. we are saving up for a house, so we decided to have a night out in lieu of gifts this year. Right before we left, I was checking my email on his computer and accidentally spilled yes, a full glass of water across the computer desk, and while frantically cleaning up the water, i accidentally disconnected the wireless router, which made the wireless internet not work. It seemed to have reset, and in order to fix it, it needed to be reconfigured, and we didnt know how to do it. DH got soo pissed at me for messing it up. so that put a total damper on our night out, along with the fact that our favorite bar was sooo full of people that we ended up going somewhere else which kinda sucked. Fail.
Highlight: Diamond earrings! Also, our first married Christmas and all that goes with that (setting up tree together, hosting a holiday party, sleeping together at my parents' (first time they let us!), etc. etc.)
Lowlight: We probably spent too much money, but it was all cash and I really don't regret it.
Highlight - watching my 18 month old nephew unwrap and play with his gifts.
Lowlight - being snowed in and saying good-bye to my BIL who will be gone until June.
Highlights: Spending our first Christmas together..we didn't live together before marriage. We only had to go to my mom's that day and it was so relaxing which was nice.
Lowlight: DH's dad was sick so we couldn't go over there and see them on Christmas. We did have Christmas with his side of the family the Sunday before, it still would of been nice to stop by and say hi.
Highlights: Obviously getting to spend every bit of the holidays together..as opposed to last year where i stayed the night at my parents house and would leave David's every night and return every morning, this year getting to be together for all of it was wonderful... all of our families spaced out all of the celebrations so we actually got to spend lots of quality time with everyone. Everything went really well so we enjoyed every minute of it!
lowlights: We really didnt have any.. My sister, brother-in-law and nephew live 5 hours away and they didnt get to stay long, so we always wish that they could stay longer, but otherwise things went great!
Highlight: Spending time with my Mom and my in-laws with DH.
Lowlight: Puking on two of the three plane trips between families.
Highlight: getting to be with DH (and not BSC MIL) for the holidays AND getting to hear DH tell his mom we may not be able to be there next year on their "turn" to have us. He didn't elaborate to her, but said he we weren't going anywhere if I'm pg, which is the plan. So nice to know we won't have to argue this point next year!
Lowlight: my mom complaining about me not picking up on her one gift hint and passing it along to my dad. She announced this as we finished opening gifts. She got great gifts from him and still complained. Thanks, Debbie Downer.
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Highlight: Christmas night DH and i cuddled on the couch, drank wine and watched The Hangover. It was a great way to relax after being with both our familes and just have some time to ourselves.
Lowlight: We had to leave his parent's house at 8am on Christmas day. We were driving back to where we live (3 hours away) and there was supposed to be bad icy weather so we wanted to get back before it started. I felt bad that we didn't get to stay longer even though we spent a few days before and Christmas eve with them. And then the bad weather never even happend.
And my mom got really mad while trying to cook a Turdukin for dinner Christmas night. That wasn't too fun to be around and it kinda spoiled the rest of the evening.
Highlights: Having a wonderful low-key Christmas Day. Watching my younger brothers opening their PS3 (gift from me, DH, and my mom) -- they're 17 and 19, and they were acting like five year olds (in a good way) -- it was adorable, and totally made my Christmas.
Lowlights: My grandmother had open-heart surgery in early December and hasn't been feeling super well. This was the first time in 26 years that I didn't go to her house on Christmas Eve and that she and my grandfather didn't come to my mom's house for Christmas Day. But we are going to get together in early January, which is good.
Highlights - Giving my aunt and uncle a photo album from our wedding and having my aunt ball her eyes out she was so happy about it. (and telling me if was her favorite christmas gifts)
Lowlights - Going way too many places on Christmas day because my husband is so damn concerned with how his family will react if he doesn't see each and every singler person on Xmas. I told him next year if he still thinks that we are going to all those places he is mistaken. I will go my own separate way on xmas if he insists on going. I am all set with that. (can you tell I am pissed off about this?!).
I live about 1 hour away from my family so it is pretty close. Because of the above, we were forced to leave our house xmas morning at 9am, and didn't return til midnight. I was tired and angry about the entire day. It took all of the fun out of xmas for me.
highlight - christmas was at our house this year, so we didn't have to go anywhere.
Low - my brother and his new girlfriend were late and would have not shown up at all if not for my call because they were "watching a video and thought the time was 12:30 cause that's what the player said" when actuality it was almost 2 and the time I specifically said was time to eat. He said he was on his way, then 10 minutes later I get a call asking me if he can bring his kitten and when I said no, was told they have to go back to their apartment to drop her off. that was my wtf moment of the day. glad we didn't wait for him because they had "literally just ate" and forgot the side they were supposed to bring. disappointed but not surprised.