CannonBall, Fireflies, & BBT.

I have to admit a few weeks ago I had a minor nervous breakdown. I think Courtney touched on the topic in one of her posts...about how she was more so excited about the baby & I was caught up in the details of it all.

I thought I was the only one who cannon-balled into this adventure. She seemed to be easing her way into the shallow end. I couldn't understand why I was obsessively reading blogs, and using the Google to find different ways of doing things, and researching ratings for the best baby products. In my mind, I was as enthusiastic as the rest of my new found friends of blogland. I felt like my BabyCenter cohorts were on the same page as me, too. So, it was hard for me to figure out what was happening in Court's mind...I thought she was just going along with this whole bit to make me happy. That is nowhere near the right track.

So after some tears and questions and obvious miscommunication, I now realize she was pretty much leaving the detail parts up to me. She sees the final picture, I am the one who starts with the outlines of the trees. Her last post made it even more real for me just how excited she really is. It is unbelievably cute to hear what she has read about in her new books. I needed reassurance from her, and I got just that!! She has been wonderful. She may think she is baby crazy...but I think this is totally normal. I feel like we are the perfect team again. I just need to remember she can't always read my mind...and even though 98% of the time I can read hers, I may get it wrong sometimes.

Now that I have all of that out there...we had a great weekend camping with my family! We live just a short drive from the Smoky Mountains. If you haven't heard about the fireflies at Elkmont, you should look it up. We got to see them this year for the first time ever!! It was really cool, despite the fog and chilly weather. Apparently last year there were even more, but the warm winter we had & our summer-like spring made their peak happen earlier. Nonetheless it was still neat!!

Here are some pictures from our weekend :)



 This is my momma & daddy

   Elkmont

  This is my backyard :)

Smoky Mountain Beauty

This was nearly a full moon & sooo pretty :)

BBT charting was a little whacky this past week for a couple of reasons. #1. I had a breast biopsy on a lump I found a while back (tests came back normal, like we expected...I am prone to fibroids), however, I got an infection from the actual procedure. So, Wednesday morning my temp jumped from 97.1 to 97.8!! I made a note on FF to remind me why that happened. #2. This weekend sleeping in a tent with outside temperatures averaging around 50 my BBT dropped to 96.9 & 96.5. My chart looks crazy!! I'm hoping this week will be more normal. Today I was back to 97.5...I am going to start using OPKs to help lock down the exact day for O this afternoon...if I read correctly LH surge is usually in the evening?? FF shows my most fertile days CD12-CD14 with O being CD15, this Friday. I'm a little nervous that I won't get a +OPK...or maybe the cheapo tests I got from Amazon won't work correctly. Oh well, at this point all I can do is go for it and see what happens.

Seeing how I have written a short story here & I have jumped from topic to topic, I think it is time to get some actual work done. Happy Monday, all!!