back on the horse!

(cycle 34, day 9)
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yes, that means we're TTC again! can you tell i'm excited? lol.

we've been fully focused on the house the last couple months so we haven't even talked about TTC in quite a while. so it was probably a good mental break for both of us. I sure hope it was for him since it's been on my mind non-stop, but not talking about it for a while has helped me out. I've also taken a step back from some prego groups I was a part of on FB, so I think that has been helped lowered my stress related to TTC. I can only hope it did the same for him...


this past weekend, we finally picked out our tile for the ensuite! after being totally unsuccessful up to this point whenever talking about tile and even having a few arguments when looking through samples of tiles before, we totally agreed on everything and were able to get everything picked and bought  : )

since dh had a very unsuccessful tile trip the day before now that we've got samples of the granite countertop and stain colour for the vanity itself. we started our day with a breakfast date at Denny's. I love spending time with him because right now, quality time is few and far between. after breakfast, we started with the furthest store from our way home and we'd work our way south back towards the way home hitting all the hardware stores on the way. we didn't find anything at that first store (Rona), so we probably could've skipped that one altogether, lol. next up was Home Depot. we almost found everything we were looking for there, or at least got a better direction to go in. we picked out a basic, somewhat neutral tile for the floor and our accent tile there. from there, we went to Lowe's and got some marble that matches the marble in the accent tiles for the top of the tub surround. while there, we happened to run into our old neighbours so we hung out and chatted for probably at least an hour or so before continuing on our quest to get tile. it was nice to catch up with them since we don't see them much anymore because they live in the city now. last up was Totem (or at least what I thought was Totem but apparently they got bought out by Rona so I was little worried we wouldn't have much luck there since we didnt' have any luck at the first Rona) to pick out the wall tile in the shower. thankfully to my surprise, it was still set up as though it was Totem, just with a different brand name on the signs. thank god! lol. we were able to get all the wall tile picked out (after a bit of a mixup figuring out how much of a certain tile they had cuz we thought they didn't have enough and we'd have to go to another store to get it) and loaded in my little truck. the poor thing has never had so much weight loaded into it! with all that weight, it messed up where my mirrors point when i'm driving, LOL. I couldn't believe we managed to pick it all out and get it home! miracles happen  ; )

on the way home, after such a good day spent shopping with DH, I asked what our plan was with TTC since we hadn't talked about it in a while and we were no longer needing to prevent. to my utter surprise he totally agreed and said we're going to full on TTC again. I gave the option of taking a laid back approach like we had been doing just without the preventing part, but he said no, we'll actually try. to save myself disappointment when I am fertile, i'm only going to expect one BD session and anything else a bonus so I don't get myself all worked up and freaking out over it. I want to enjoy TTC again, not stress ourselves out over it. we can do that in the fall if nothing happens by then. lets just enjoy the summer and the house!!!

about 1500lbs of tile in the back of my poor truck, lol.