Lazy Sunday

Not too much to say tonight. Hubby and I have had a fairly relaxing, yet productive weekend. He's now got the cold that I am still trying to get rid of so we've been mostly hunkered down. We did get some stuff done around the house...laundry, filing, and finally packing away the last of the Christmas stuff. I also managed to make a cassoulet inspired stew-like concoction in the slow cooker today. I improvised, and it was good! And we had a lovely fire this evening as well. So yeah, a very full, yet lazy weekend.

Oh! And we booked our tropical beach vacation. After much deliberation, too many trip advisor reviews, and going around in circles for a few days, and a hormone induced emotional breakdown, we have chosen a resort 30 minutes outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Aruba was just turning out to be way more money than we wanted to spend right now. I'm trying to relax and be excited, and ignore some of the less than favorable reviews at the place we chose, and focus on the fact that most people really like the place. All that matters really is that we get a few days in the sun on the beach, right? And this place has a huge stretch of beach. I may have mentioned that we've had some bad luck with vacations in the past, so I'm just too paranoid. It's going to be fine! We're going to the beach in a few weeks! Yippee! And we're not spending 150% of our budget to do it.

The other thing that dominated the weekend was football. We Hubby watched all four games. It is exciting that the Pats have one more game to go to make it to the Super Bowl. I don't care too much about football, but I do enjoy a good party, so I'll take a few more weeks of this if we can get it.

If only this was actually a long weekend for me. But no, my office is open, and I get to get up early and head in for blood work bright and early to see how we're doing after 5 days of stims! You know I'll keep you posted.

Lastly, my good friend Chon over at My Path to Insanity & Beyond has a great post today about how to survive an IVF two week wait. For anyone who doesn't know her, she got her BFP this fall after 3 fresh cycles, and more, so she's been through more than her fair share of waits and definitely has some great advice to offer. Since I've been getting to know some new bloggers who I know are going through IVF for the first time, (or second or third...), I thought the was a great post to share. I wrote a long comment with some of my thoughts, so I won't bother putting them here right now.