Things were so crazy busy for me earlier this year with work, but now I'm definitely enjoying the work/life balance that I'm having these days. I'm definitely being challenged in my new role as I work to figure things out - but I'm back to working normal hours and not working on weekends or at nights. My new manager even checked in on me today to see how my bandwidth is and make sure I'm doing okay. I guess when he talked to my husband at the summer festival, my husband mentioned the crazy hours I was working earlier in the year. Nice to know that my new manager is looking out for me and I will definitely speak up sooner if I start to get too much on my plate again. I still miss some parts of my old job, but I think that's natural. I was pretty confident in what I was doing and now I'm the new girl on the block. ;) I also decided to take a break from teaching my aerobics class once a week at the YMCA. I enjoy teaching - but I've just had to get a sub so much lately for a variety of reasons like work, these treatments, etc... And it's just not high in my list of priorities these days - so I decided to just officially take a break. We are so busy most weekends, it will be nice to have another weeknight back. And assuming things go well with this cycle - I'll probably continue to take it easy. My husband and I were playing in a summer softball league on Monday nights and that just ended too - so we have that night back as well. The first half of the year was super-crazy busy, so I'm just trying to not take on so much and slow things down a bit.
So towards the end of June, we were in my husband's hometown and I went to get a manicure at this local nail salon. The guy that did my nails was a nice Asian man and his wife also worked there. She was super pregnant and due in July - so we were talking about the new baby. I think he asked how long I've been married and if we had any kids. I said, "No, not yet." And then he asked, "You trying?" And I said, "Yes, just not working." And what was his response? You can probably guess as it's a pretty popular response. Yep, you guessed it - he said to me, "Oh, you need to relax." Really?!?!? If only everyone knew how much that "just relax" advice makes us infertile ones cringe. I know he didn't mean anything by it, so of course I just smiled and said, "Yep - thanks!" :)
WWYD: I know that it's up to my husband and I to decide what's best for us and what we want to do. But lately I've been curious as to what others would do in our situation. So tonight, I just wanted to ask any and all of my blog followers... what would you do? I've asked this question to my mom and my mother-in-law over the past month or so. My mom thinks that we should maybe go to another doctor and get a 2nd opinion. She just can't understand why Dr. Williams can't figure out what's going on. My mother-in-law thinks we should take my sister up on her offer to be a gestational carrier and let her carry our embryo and have our baby. Feel free to post your WWYD response to the blog or shoot me an email or let me know the next time I see you. There's no wrong answer and I'm sure it's tough to put yourself in our shoes - but I would love to hear from you!
In closing, I'd like to shout out a very happy birthday to the one and only Spare Bear!! :)