I'm not lost...I promise!

Sorry for the absence lately.  This past year was pretty crazy, so I'll do the super short version:

I allowed our church intern to stay at my house over the summer.  Long story short, I won't do it again.  It was probably the worst 3 months ever, and she wasn't the most respectful person to share a place with either.

The missions trip was fun.  We had issues with one of the junior high kids, but I think it was mainly because it was his first time away from the parents and he thought he could get away with murder.  Yeah, not so much.

DH's deployment went be super fast and he came home late September.  He had almost the entire month of October off which was really nice.  We had a ton of fun just spending time together.

Because DH got back later than we had hoped, our IVF got pushed to January.  We spent a lot of time getting all of our IF testing redone and all the records sent to the IVF office.  Thank goodness I have an amazing GYN and a nurse to work with!  They were such a huge help!

So now, January. We started our IVF cycle January 11 with a baseline ultrasound, labs, and stops at the pharmacy and medical supply offices.  Over the following few days, we had a med class/orientation, and then we got started!  Five days later, we had another ultrasound and I was stimming super-fast, so they added a different med to help block my pituitary gland so I wouldn't O on my own.  Five days of appointments, ultrasounds, and lab work later, I was ready to trigger.  Retrieval was 2 days later and went really well.  They got 16 eggs and 13 of them fertilized.  Transfer was scheduled for 3 days later, and we were so excited!  Transfer day came and the doc met with us pre-transfer.  All of our embies were 7-10 cells and grades A/B (mostly A's).  We were pretty happy.  However, the doc said unless we were super okay with the possibility of twins, he said we could wait and do a 5dt.

After much debating, we decided to up our chances a little and wait a couple more days and transfer 1 blastocyst.  Saturday was T-day and everything went super smoothly.  They gave us an ultrasound pic of the embryo in my uterus too (our baby's first picture!).  The next day, we found out we had 11 embryos make it to cryo!  So now it's officially a waiting game.  We go in for Beta #1 on Feb 8, so I'm really hoping these next few days go by super fast.

Aside from that, I'm really not liking my job and seriously thinking about quitting shortly.  There's a lot of non-communication that is happening and super high unrealistic expectations for a single person and it's way too much stress for the amount of the paychecks that I receive.  Come to find out, it's an on-going problem for the church office.  One of the previous employees had the same problems that I'm facing now.  I've been looking elsewhere but haven't found much that's catching my eye.

I've also decided I want to go back to school for something that would be a little more useful while we're in the military.  I'm waiting to hear back on my application, but in the meantime, I've been researching and applying for scholarships and grants.  I'm hoping that I can do the college thing and have very little to no out-of-pocket expense on our part.