Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1

I would love a puppy but not practical.
Currently entertaining myself with planning holidays. Iceland soon and Cuba in January.
I also do Ballroom dancing and have a bronze medal exam in December which is taking a lot of my time and attention!!! Good fun though.
Managed to DTD after previous fight last night. Not too hopeful this month...

I've been wanting to leave for about 2 years so I'm just going for if now. What will be will be.

Well we've decided to have a couple of nights in Bangkok, then a couple in Chaing Mai, then Chaing Rai, then we're going to fly to Phuket (and leave immediately after) - think we're going to Koh Yao Noi for a couple of nights and then (we're worried we'll be scared of travelling around by then!) seven lazy nights in Krabi. We may leave our hotel for a night or two on different islands once we're there, but got a really good deal through a friend on a hotel in Krabi (less than half price) so it won't matter if we are away from the hotel for a night or two. But I just kept thinking that IF I was pg I might be knackered and grateful for some lazy time... Then back up to Bangkok and land at 6am on Christmas eve. Lovely. Koh Lipe looks amazing though - next time?!

Also need to lose a dress size by the end of November. Easy?!

Oh yes, it's very pink.

So where in Thailand are you going, checked out Koh Lipe? I just bought tickets for a shopping weekend in London ...now just need to lose a dress size..

Hazle is your house pink? Totally jealous of that. And bon chance with the French class!

Oh winkle I've had the whole job dilemma too. Mine is getting boring now (but relatively stress free and is a very nice salary) and I'm usually so ambitious and driven but feel I have to endure it. I was approached about a massive job at a rival company a few weeks ago, had a first interview and they loved me (had insider feedback!) & asked me back to meet with the MD but then decided to be totally honest and say I didn't want to continue the application as I was considering ttc - even if it takes me ages, was a job I'd need to be in for a year or two to do a decent job and would feel bad if I started and then got pg and left them for months. I'm so square! Was definitely the right choice, but is a teensy bit gutting - and if I don't get pg in the next 6-12 months I will be totally kicking myself for not going for it... But what can you do....

So instead I'm just planning holidays galore - Dubai in Nov, Thailand in Dec, then taking DP away for a surprise 30th in Feb to New York - will be freezing!

Other things going on in my life are I'm looking for a new job! Been in this job 2 years too long and the mat pay is crap.

Thanks :)
I also have 3 cats, it's a bit of a zoo.
We're renovating the kitchen at the moment too, certainly a distraction. But it will be nice open-plan now, so DH can cook and keep an eye on the future DC at the same time.

I WANT A DOG SO BADLY! Hazle yours are lovely. Am also jealous of your gorgeous house.

We can't have a dog in this flat as it's a rental with no garden. We are looking to buy a place though - that's my alternative-to-ttc obsession at the moment. Currently it feels like everything - house, baby, dog - is something that I am waiting for that will happen at some indeterminate point in the future.

Annoyingly it looks like I might OV earlier than expected this month - getting faint lines on an OPK - so DP might be too late by the time he arrives back on Friday. Agghhhhhh!

Oh, I WANT a puppy! Absolutely not practical with the hours we both work at the moment though, damn it. Please put a photo on your profile rache, hazle your dogs are gorgeous, just gorgeous.

Nothing is distracting me really. Went away with my two closest friends, and their DH's at the weekend, and one of them is just pg and the other ttc like us, so talked about it all more than ever! It was just lovely but certainly not a distraction!

oooh puppy! What kind? I have two, photo on the profile. But they're 2 years old, no trouble any more.

My TTC distraction is a 12 week old puppy who is currently running me ragged! I still seem to be finding time to obsess though

Morning all, and what else is happening in your life, Elderberries? You know, shouldnt' obsess, just relax and don't worry about it and it will happen, as some people who have no effing idea tell us.

I have finally signed up for French classes. Beginner ones. And they send me an email that sorry, beginner ones are cancelled, instead please come to beginner-intermediate class, it will be modified, no problem! Considering that I don't speak French then I'd say yes, problem. But will go check it out this evening.

It's hard to keep it up all month! I tried that method a couple of months ago.

I haven't dtd since the second peak on the monitor least thurs! EWCM dried up plus my hubs feeling down about it all which isn't conducive to dtd!

Well Winkle, our plan this cycle was to DTD EOD, or at least as much as we could stand.
I'm not temping this month and I'm reluctant to rely on it too much as the first month I used it it gave me a peak a week early.
I figure I'm just going to go for the tried and tested, EOD from the end of one period to the start of the next.
But then I got ill and it's rather scuppered it.

Hey everyone, hope you're all doing well.

AF is due in the next few days for me and having PO3Ss already its looking like its not my month. I hate to think what waiting 9 months is like as every cycle feels at least that long atm!

Well we are half way through a bottle of wine and I am pretending to be happy. Like u said having to forget about winning argument. He is still grumpy so lets see.

aw lol any way you can make it up with him tonight?

Well I didn't DTD last night as we ended up having a huge stupid row.
Had ov pain today and positive opk so hoping we manage to get in the mood tonight. Feel quite upset about oct. don't think it's our month.

Sore boobs sound good Hazle! Mine are too.

Well done Jane in new job.

Pip - do you dtd after monitor peaks or do you stop for that month?

Well the CBFM gave me a high this morning and well done to DH who DTD last night despite it being 12.30 by the time we got to bed!

Thanks janey and the trouble is that I have no idea, it's been now 26 days since the chemical last month. So even assuming the cycle got back to normal immediately (unlikely), it would probably be too early to test indeed, I'm usually 30-33. But the "too early to test" has never held us back from POASing, has it?

Oh hazle I'm really hoping it is something... It's just so frustrating waiting. When did you say AF/BFP is due? It could just be hormones are too low at the moment?