Another attempt, another failure

Rollercoaster, its been used lots of times to describe all aspects of parenting, but I think it applies even before the bundle of joy is conceived. Well, for those of us who go the alternative route of getting pregnant. I don't feel too bad this month, I had a feeling last week with the PMT and all that, that it wouldn't have been a success. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. I'll skip looking for a Leo
baby and just settle for a baby at this stage.

We are thinking telling people we are taking a break. Just because it might stop them from asking are we pregnant yet every month. Its probably our own fault for telling them we were trying but if we say we are stopping for a while, it might stop them! They mean well, but it puts so much pressue on us. mammy2 got another book through work about getting pregnant. I know most of this stuff already, but another slant on it might do no harm. This woman recommends trying during ovulation as opposed to the day or so before which is what we've been doing. There are so many opinions on it, I guess we just keep trying! Thankfully, our donor is a patient man!

The kid behaved herself at the weekend, from what we can see. She didn't go to school on the Monday as she was DYING of period pain, no-one had ever expierenced pain like it apparently. She lived on a staple diet of MacDonalds, so I re-heated some stew we had left over from the weekend for her and she loved it. I swear, I'm thinking of giving her a cookery class. Then again I reckon
she knows how to cook and is just too lazy. Teenagers, lazy, surely not.

Anyhew, the weekend went too quickly, we took off to the wilds of Mayo with S and A for a girlie weekend. Friday night was spent in A's house in Athlone, she recently bought a new house so we had to admire the kitchen and her DIY. And her moulding, lest we forget. Then we headed out on the town, ended up in a pub where the music was way too loud of us to talk and we sat like 4 ould wans
giving out about the loudness of music these days. I felt so old.

Saturday morning, we paid a visit to Mam's grave and put some flowers on it. I didn't get a chance to go to it for her birthday as we were away in Wales. It still feels so strange reading her name on the headstone. We headed for Killary then, a quick stop off on the way for supplies and we arrived at the cottage for around 5. It was quite cold, so I got started on the fire whilst the rest of them started cooking dinner. A nice roast dinner followed by a few glasses of wine , and we had warmed up a lot! It was a great weekend. Lots of nutrional advice from A, who's big into eating properly. I think my diet of potatoes, poatoes and more potatoes scared her! Uno, Pictionary and discussions on Malaysia summed up the weekend. And long walks..

I had yesterday off and was in bed. The Kid was on a half day, and barreled through the door at around 12.45. I asked her how come she wasn't hanging with one of her mates. She yelled she'd be into a minute and sure enough 2 minutes later she wanders into the room in her pyjamas. She must hold the world record for the quickest removal of a school uniform ever. I have a feeling she has her pjs on under the uniform She was full of the joys of spring. She handed up her english essay and her english teacher thinks she's fabulous. She was reading Sylvia Plath after class and the teacher spotted her reading it and started a conversation about her, apparently its the teacher's favourite author. I asked the Kid how did the teacher walk about with the kids lips stuck to her ass.

She's joined some weird site called VampireFreaks.com. I sometimes think being left in the dark about what she gets up to on the internet is far better then actually seeing some the sites she accesses. Anyhew, she wanted to update her profile on this website and you needed to have some knowledge of HTML and/or Javascript. The minute she heard this, I was thrown into the chair and told to fix all the problems she was having with her profile. My skills come in useful sometimes it seems.