Catching up from the week of Chaos...

Today I was a little sad that Thanksgiving went by so quickly. Cook, bake, eat, sleep. My mom, step dad and sister came up for dinner yesterday. As did our friends Courtney and Zach. It was so nice to stay put this year and cook up a feast. I loved preparing everything and paced myself as best as I could. Patrick was a huge help in the kitchen, too.

I was most proud of the pecan pie I made. Everyone seemed to enjoy it immensely and that was pleasing to me. We had so much food! Patrick and I were fine with that because that means we get a lot of yummy leftovers!

Okay...now to catch up:
Patrick and I celebrated our three year anniversary on Tuesday. We had a fantastic day! We saw the "Bodies" exhibit at Carnegie Science Center and REALLY enjoyed it. The exhibit was incredible. We also had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and that was, as usual, very pleasing! We walked around Southside (as in, the southside of Pittsburgh) for a while and stopped in Sur La Table. Oh my soul...I could spend so much time and money in that store with such contentment! We bought one of these for the kitchen and I'm super excited to use it! I love getting new things for my kitchen. It always helps to have good tools handy!

ALSO, we had our appointment with the fertility doctor on Tuesday. She was wonderful and we both really liked her. She was very optimistic and very encouraging. It was so neat to hear her say, "I'm really confident that you will have a baby soon." Wow!

She went over several things with us including fertility options and in what order they normally proceed from this point. She discussed a few things that may be wrong with my body, even though we both know it's PCOS. They drew blood, just to get all the correct levels and such. We scheduled a phone conference in December and at that point we'll go over the blood work and get started on Clomid.

She was convinced that since my body is pretty healthy, it shouldn't be too hard for the Clomid to work. She was very sympathetic to what we've been through and such over the last two and a half years. The hospital caters to women and it was so nice to talk to the doctor and the nurses who knew what I was going through and deal with it daily. I'm really excited to see what God teaches us and does with this situation.

Wednesday, I had to drive to Morgantown to show my dad's house. It was discouraging to have to make the trip the day before Thanksgiving, but the meeting went really well and we're hopefully on our way to settling my dad's estate. The extra four hours in the car were not welcomed, but it did give me time to think and calm down (as the situation leading up to the drive was very frustrating) and that was nice. As hard as it will be, I'm ready for this to be finalized so we can have more closure.

Whew. I think that's all I have to report. It's been a long week and I'm ready for bed! I most certainly got up early this morning to go shopping, but was very disappointed at the lack of good deals. I do enjoy getting up early, though, so I didn't mind getting my day started at 6 am :).