Hi erm, uh well did I say to you guys I was really wanting to have a baby?????!!!
OMG My house has been overtaken!!! I have a toddler invasion!!!! I am exhausted!!!!! Well 10 mins after my last post that must have been weeks and weeks ago!!! I had a call for an emergency placement, weeelllll I could if your really stuck, but I am in my two weeks now of peacetime and build up time for my FET!!!! Well there was noone else full to capacity at the moment!! So 2 hours later 2 little wee ones arrived on my doorstep!!! I havent had preschoolers for over 3 years I forgot what it was like!!! Ahhhhhh they are so adorable tho, well bang goes my 2 weeks of peace, so this is a very quick post to say I will try and read through tonight and write more personals later depends whether my littleist guy will go to bed or not.............??
I am still here thought I would have lots of time to play but never mind
Try and catch you later
Lee xxxxxxxxxxx
Awaiting Treatment
lee -- i've said it before, i'll say it again....you have the patience of a saint!!! i admire and respect you for stepping up to the plate for the wee-ones!!! can i just ask --- how on earth do you keep from getting attached to them (emotionally?)??? that is my #1 fear as i've been asked to consider doing foster care......i'm afraid i would be hell bent on giving back a child to a crack-whore mother.......or knowing the child would go back into what was an abusive home -- simply because "they've had counseling" and are now healed.....just not sure i could deal with the emotional toll.........................((((BIG HUGS)))))))) to you!!!
:-) Angie
Hello friends!!!
How is everyone?? I am ok. Just got everything caught up at work and I decided to finally give you girls the attention you deserve!!!
Wishfull: CONGRATULATIONS on your 1,000th post!!! How cool is that? Awww...you are so cute, being sentimental!!! I second what you posted! You girls are simply the best. We all understand each others feelings and you just what to say. Gosh, your time is flying for FET!! How exciting! So you got a new do?? Well, my DH was out when I get mine. My hair dresser said, DH will be so suprised when he gets home. I said, he wont even notice!! I went from brown to blonde so it is a big difference. Guess what...he came home and nope! He didnt notice!!!
It doesnt bother me though. Once I mentioned it, he was like, oh, it is really nice!!! I did not know that Prague was in Czech!! I have heard nothing but really good things about Czech!!! It has to be a sign!!!
Lee: MAN!!! Two toddlers...I bet you are tired! How is the girly?? Your FET is coming up fast too!
Sophie: Hey there!!! I love Jeremy and Victor!! I think Victor sounds so regal!!! I cant believe you are almost 31 weeks!! So close. I am so glad your doggies are doing great!!! I know you cant wait to be on maternity leave and spend some time with them. So you are taking a year off right? How does that work?? Here we take 6 weeks...
I miss ANGEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know what is going on? Does she just need a break?
Angie: What the
How is everyone?? I am ok. Just got everything caught up at work and I decided to finally give you girls the attention you deserve!!!
Wishfull: CONGRATULATIONS on your 1,000th post!!! How cool is that? Awww...you are so cute, being sentimental!!! I second what you posted! You girls are simply the best. We all understand each others feelings and you just what to say. Gosh, your time is flying for FET!! How exciting! So you got a new do?? Well, my DH was out when I get mine. My hair dresser said, DH will be so suprised when he gets home. I said, he wont even notice!! I went from brown to blonde so it is a big difference. Guess what...he came home and nope! He didnt notice!!!
It doesnt bother me though. Once I mentioned it, he was like, oh, it is really nice!!! I did not know that Prague was in Czech!! I have heard nothing but really good things about Czech!!! It has to be a sign!!!Lee: MAN!!! Two toddlers...I bet you are tired! How is the girly?? Your FET is coming up fast too!
Sophie: Hey there!!! I love Jeremy and Victor!! I think Victor sounds so regal!!! I cant believe you are almost 31 weeks!! So close. I am so glad your doggies are doing great!!! I know you cant wait to be on maternity leave and spend some time with them. So you are taking a year off right? How does that work?? Here we take 6 weeks...
I miss ANGEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know what is going on? Does she just need a break?
Angie: What the
Hello friends!!!
How is everyone?? I am ok. Just got everything caught up at work and I decided to finally give you girls the attention you deserve!!!
Wishfull: CONGRATULATIONS on your 1,000th post!!! How cool is that? Awww...you are so cute, being sentimental!!! I second what you posted! You girls are simply the best. We all understand each others feelings and you just what to say. Gosh, your time is flying for FET!! How exciting! So you got a new do?? Well, my DH was out when I get mine. My hair dresser said, DH will be so suprised when he gets home. I said, he wont even notice!! I went from brown to blonde so it is a big difference. Guess what...he came home and nope! He didnt notice!!! It doesnt bother me though. Once I mentioned it, he was like, oh, it is really nice!!! I did not know that Prague was in Czech!! I have heard nothing but really good things about Czech!!! It has to be a sign!!!
Lee: MAN!!! Two toddlers...I bet you are tired! How is the girly?? Your FET is coming up fast too!
Sophie: Hey there!!! I love Jeremy and Victor!! I think Victor sounds so regal!!! I cant believe you are almost 31 weeks!! So close. I am so glad your doggies are doing great!!! I know you cant wait to be on maternity leave and spend some time with them. So you are taking a year off right? How does that work?? Here we take 6 weeks...
I miss ANGEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know what is going on? Does she just need a break?
Angie: What the
How is everyone?? I am ok. Just got everything caught up at work and I decided to finally give you girls the attention you deserve!!!
Wishfull: CONGRATULATIONS on your 1,000th post!!! How cool is that? Awww...you are so cute, being sentimental!!! I second what you posted! You girls are simply the best. We all understand each others feelings and you just what to say. Gosh, your time is flying for FET!! How exciting! So you got a new do?? Well, my DH was out when I get mine. My hair dresser said, DH will be so suprised when he gets home. I said, he wont even notice!! I went from brown to blonde so it is a big difference. Guess what...he came home and nope! He didnt notice!!!
It doesnt bother me though. Once I mentioned it, he was like, oh, it is really nice!!! I did not know that Prague was in Czech!! I have heard nothing but really good things about Czech!!! It has to be a sign!!!Lee: MAN!!! Two toddlers...I bet you are tired! How is the girly?? Your FET is coming up fast too!
Sophie: Hey there!!! I love Jeremy and Victor!! I think Victor sounds so regal!!! I cant believe you are almost 31 weeks!! So close. I am so glad your doggies are doing great!!! I know you cant wait to be on maternity leave and spend some time with them. So you are taking a year off right? How does that work?? Here we take 6 weeks...
I miss ANGEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know what is going on? Does she just need a break?
Angie: What the
type of evidence!!!
WOW...your plan is moving full speed ahead!! So happy for you!!! One of my other close friends, (I tend to have a lot of friends with IF???
)
her and her DH have to do IVF with ICSI to have a baby, and they decided to do IUI with DS because of financial reasons, well they did 3 IUI's, they all failed. BUT...GOD had a plan. Within 2 weeks of her 3rd failed IUI...she found out her and her DH were being placed with a baby!!! Thats right!!!! AND her and DH were there for the birth and everything. It is a closed adoption, but they put her and her DH in their own room and they brought their baby girl to them as soon as she was born. They took home from the hospital!! She just turned one Januray 29th!! She tells me she forgets that Baby Gracie didnt come from her!!! Sweetest story...
ok ladies...I will be around!!! Love to all!!
WOW...your plan is moving full speed ahead!! So happy for you!!! One of my other close friends, (I tend to have a lot of friends with IF???
)her and her DH have to do IVF with ICSI to have a baby, and they decided to do IUI with DS because of financial reasons, well they did 3 IUI's, they all failed. BUT...GOD had a plan. Within 2 weeks of her 3rd failed IUI...she found out her and her DH were being placed with a baby!!! Thats right!!!! AND her and DH were there for the birth and everything. It is a closed adoption, but they put her and her DH in their own room and they brought their baby girl to them as soon as she was born. They took home from the hospital!! She just turned one Januray 29th!! She tells me she forgets that Baby Gracie didnt come from her!!! Sweetest story...
ok ladies...I will be around!!! Love to all!!
resent or RESEMBLE????? ha, ha, ha, ha!!!! shouldn't have used the word "cheat" --- as it somewhat implies a negative connotation.... sorry friend.....should have worded in a way that said "now mir being as ingenious as she is............this is how SHE does it" --- huh?? how 'bout that???Miracle08 wrote:posting!!! I resent
:-) Angie
Miracle nice to 'see' you, how long do they say it will be before your friend stops having these brain spasms? Do they know that much information? Thinking of you and her........
You make me laugh I was reading your post and thought what the???!!!............. Whats happened there, and then you 'double' posted thought you must be having a funny five minutes there!!! Until I read on......... and on.......... and on......... and on........... You only have another 400 or so posts to go not long!!!!!!! 
Carolyn congratulations to you from me too!! 1000 posts you must have helped out a lot of people on here over the last couple of years............
Sophie thing is if you call your little boy Richard I am going to have a picture everlasting of him now sat on a potty looking at you!!! Once your beautiful son is here and you look at him you and DH will say his name is ........................... he looks like a .......................... and it might not even be one of your short listed ones!!! Good idea tho not to discuss it with family my sis kept her choices to herself, said a few but not the one she chose and it was a real nice surprise for us all to be there when she named him and none of us knew what she was going to come up with.
Angie how amazing adoption can be over in the US to bring your baby home from the hospital, and to be there when he/she is being born there is just no way that would happen over here, baby would go into foster care first and lets face it the best place for them to be is the place they are going to be staying straight away. This is going to come so quick for you you will have forgotton what your life was like 'before children'!!!
Angel, hope your ok, hi Becky...............
As for your question how do I not get emotionally attached Angie the simple answer is I can't help myself and I do. When we had our very first children who lived with us permanently, they were two boys who I fell in love with. When they left nearly 2 years later I learnt what it meant to have a physical pain in your heart, I never realised that you can feel your heart actually breaking in 2, I cried for weeks and still at times wish now that we had adopted them. BUT we still see them and have a great relationship with their adoptive family, who made us their legal guardians and they are in such a great place now that it was completely the right thing for all of them for the boys to be in the family they are in now. We are lucky enough that all the children we have looked after apart from 1 or 2 we still see some more than others, and we are lucky enough that all our children we have looked after have moved on or back to their birth family and it has been the right move for them to do so.
We have these little ones now but I have absolutely said I can only keep them until next week, its surprising how quickly you get into a routine tho and I know by next week I will want to keep them until they decidewhat is going to happen for them but I am putting myself first and am not going to agree to anything other than I am having my 2ww on my sofa by myself watching tv and talking to all of you of course with not a child in sight!!!
My girly is doing great, making changes all the time, she might be on the move home shortly not sure?? but will support her in whatever she decides, having lots of fun with her and we are having a weekend in London next weekend with my step daughter as well so lots to look forward to.......
Well off to bed as early to rise so will try and catch up in the week..........
Goodnight
Lee xxxxx
You make me laugh I was reading your post and thought what the???!!!............. Whats happened there, and then you 'double' posted thought you must be having a funny five minutes there!!!
Until I read on......... and on.......... and on......... and on........... You only have another 400 or so posts to go not long!!!!!!! Carolyn congratulations to you from me too!! 1000 posts you must have helped out a lot of people on here over the last couple of years............
Sophie thing is if you call your little boy Richard I am going to have a picture everlasting of him now sat on a potty looking at you!!! Once your beautiful son is here and you look at him you and DH will say his name is ........................... he looks like a .......................... and it might not even be one of your short listed ones!!! Good idea tho not to discuss it with family my sis kept her choices to herself, said a few but not the one she chose and it was a real nice surprise for us all to be there when she named him and none of us knew what she was going to come up with.
Angie how amazing adoption can be over in the US to bring your baby home from the hospital, and to be there when he/she is being born there is just no way that would happen over here, baby would go into foster care first and lets face it the best place for them to be is the place they are going to be staying straight away. This is going to come so quick for you you will have forgotton what your life was like 'before children'!!!
Angel, hope your ok, hi Becky...............
As for your question how do I not get emotionally attached Angie the simple answer is I can't help myself and I do. When we had our very first children who lived with us permanently, they were two boys who I fell in love with. When they left nearly 2 years later I learnt what it meant to have a physical pain in your heart, I never realised that you can feel your heart actually breaking in 2, I cried for weeks and still at times wish now that we had adopted them. BUT we still see them and have a great relationship with their adoptive family, who made us their legal guardians and they are in such a great place now that it was completely the right thing for all of them for the boys to be in the family they are in now. We are lucky enough that all the children we have looked after apart from 1 or 2 we still see some more than others, and we are lucky enough that all our children we have looked after have moved on or back to their birth family and it has been the right move for them to do so.
We have these little ones now but I have absolutely said I can only keep them until next week, its surprising how quickly you get into a routine tho and I know by next week I will want to keep them until they decidewhat is going to happen for them but I am putting myself first and am not going to agree to anything other than I am having my 2ww on my sofa by myself watching tv and talking to all of you of course with not a child in sight!!!
My girly is doing great, making changes all the time, she might be on the move home shortly not sure?? but will support her in whatever she decides, having lots of fun with her and we are having a weekend in London next weekend with my step daughter as well so lots to look forward to.......
Well off to bed as early to rise so will try and catch up in the week..........
Goodnight
Lee xxxxx
Finally I am a mummy, we are about to adopt our beautiful little girl xxxxx
I apologise for going AWOL. Hopefully, once I explain the reasons for my silence, you'll be able to forgive me?
We got a miracle BFP in January. Initially, the shock was so great, that we were like a couple of zombies, not even daring to discuss it. Then, as you can imagine we were ecstatic. Just to make sure I wasn't imagining the 2 lines on the HPTs (6 of them!!), we got our GP to send us for a beta hcg which confirmed that I was pregnant. But shortly after, I miscarried. To say that I was devastated is probably an understatement. I was all over the place. First of all to get a BFP for the first time ever, and then to have it taken from us felt intolerably cruel. I really didn't want to be consoled, I just wanted an explanation.
Later I threw myself in my work and have worked really long hours. Just about starting to feel a bit stronger and accept whats happened. I couldn't bear to come on hear as I wasn't strong enough to even see someone else's BFP or plans. It may sound mean, but thats just how I felt at the time. Besides which there was no time to come on here with my workload.
I try to catch up with you later. Im the meantime, thanks for all the PMs. Will respond soon.
We got a miracle BFP in January. Initially, the shock was so great, that we were like a couple of zombies, not even daring to discuss it. Then, as you can imagine we were ecstatic. Just to make sure I wasn't imagining the 2 lines on the HPTs (6 of them!!), we got our GP to send us for a beta hcg which confirmed that I was pregnant. But shortly after, I miscarried. To say that I was devastated is probably an understatement. I was all over the place. First of all to get a BFP for the first time ever, and then to have it taken from us felt intolerably cruel. I really didn't want to be consoled, I just wanted an explanation.
Later I threw myself in my work and have worked really long hours. Just about starting to feel a bit stronger and accept whats happened. I couldn't bear to come on hear as I wasn't strong enough to even see someone else's BFP or plans. It may sound mean, but thats just how I felt at the time. Besides which there was no time to come on here with my workload.I try to catch up with you later. Im the meantime, thanks for all the PMs. Will respond soon.