Adventures in cereal and a homestudy thrown in

Brynn is like, "Mom, I love this new cereal...but does it come in other flavors?"
"Ah yes...this is the stuff champions are made of!"Neela says..."Woof...I love me some baby toes!"

I have been the world's worst blogger and commenter as of the last week. I don't want to make excuses...but life has been so busy and crazy. I'm hoping tonight allows me to catch up with everyone. I've been working a bit extra lately and have become part of our open heart call team at work. Basically it involves some extra call and reorienting towards the heart transplants and doing valve replacements and bypass procedures. To be part of it you have to be an anesthetist that can do the anesthesia for open heart procedures, place arterial lines, deal with transesophegeal echos and other things. So it's been overwhelming at times...but I'm loving it!

On top of that we celebrated my father in law's 60th birthday this weekend out of state in Ohio on Saturday and spent Sunday looking at houses to move. We just basically need a bit more space, the older Brynn gets....the more I realize this. Yesterday I worked and was in the open heart room again. We did a mitral valve replacement on a very young woman who was only 32 years old but had rheumatic fever as a child. When I got home I scheduled our first home study appointment with the lady given to us by our lawyer. A week from Thursday...just 10 short days away is our first homestudy. YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is all moving so fast. But I'm so freakin excited! In just a week's time I need to come up with a copy of our birth certificates, wedding certificate, W2s from last year and a police clearance from our city on both my husband any myself. I had to chuckle on that last one because it seems a bit silly. Both my husband and I are very boring individuals. But if they need a police clearance so we can adopt our own embryos in the grand state of Michigan so be it!

Once again - I so apologize for my lack of commenting, I'm still reading and am delighted to hear what's new with everyone. It just seems like I wake up and go to bed without getting half of what I want to get done accomplished these last few days.

We also recently got an offer to tell of our story from a local publisher. I'm not sure what I want to do with that as of yet. Our life seems so private, yet I realize I've written in my blog about such a matter that is private for the whole blogosphere to hear.Seems a bit contradictory if you know what I mean! To tell of our story I would have to include the infertility blogosphere and all who have been with us along the road. Without you, things would had been very different!

What I have gotten away from that I didn't mean to do was to continue to thank one blogger at a time. Next on my list is Jen from Here we go Again.She was one of my first commenters and has not missed many a post. Her little one Elizabeth is one of the cutest babies known to man. But more important than that, she actually has sent me numerous mailings of things to keep me occupied while I was on bedrest and pregnant. She in fact sent me things that my husband used to bring me while I was in the hospital. She would send me some of my favorite magazines complete with comments on certain pages that she had actually read through. Also her puppies are the absolute cutest. They give Neela a serious run for her money on the cuteness factor. And just when I was having a bad day and so sad in the hospital, I would get a package from Jen. She is the ultimate in blogger mail. Seriously...there is no better! So Jen, thank you. You Farah and I honestly would love to all get together sometime because I think we would have a blast. Jen..thank you for making my life just a little bit better! Brynn thanks you for your thoughtfulness. You are the best!