I didn't get pregnant, but I did birth a Hot New Cow Necklace!

Hi friends!! I took my first Blog Hiatus! :) thank you for staying with me, if some of you did...I was busy trying to get pregnant. I was literally self-centered, and although my focus went inwards and into our home and home-life, specifically, I realized regardless of how much you focus on getting pregnant, or worry about conceiving, it really doesn't actually help you GET pregnant. whew! Run-on sentence, right?!?!

So we didn't get pregnant with Leif's Danish sperm, the same donor we used with Hudson, our two-yr-old. And without judging myself or my feelings, I'll just say it...I was relieved. Kim appears to feel more loss than me, but I am the "host parent" (that's my terminology, not gay slang)...the mommy who would carry, and I was really concerned about donating my body for 2 years and being TIRED! We are a 35 and 46yr old couple. Had we started 10 years ago, we would have tried longer for more kids, I believe. But now, with travel to Denmark for artificial insemination becoming our last option for getting pregnant with a blood sibling of Hudson's...we have decided (for today) that we are done. And now we join the "Only Child" team...can't wait!!!

While I was super busy not getting pregnant, i did make some fabulous jewelry...funky rocker mod cowboy jewelry...here are my favorite summer pieces. I used recycled pukas and shells, as well as re-purposed silver and turquoise belts. Love these understated glamor necklaces. Again, if you have strands of old chains or shells...let me re-purpose them for you, too!

Maybe Another BABY?? And we Don't have to go to Denmark?!

I know it's BAADDD luck to start talking about "what-if" babies when you're trying to get pregnant, but I'm SO EXCITED! We thought until yesterday that we would have to inseminate in Denmark if we wanted the same donor for a second baby, for a sibling for Hudson (our 2 year old).

I called the Scandinavian Cryobank (http://ny.cryosinternational.com/home.aspx ) yesterday to beg our contact guy "Ty" in NYC to beg the other family in NYC who owns our donor's last USA "straws", "specimens", (or sperms, if you will!), to release their existing reservation and sell some or all to us. But yesterday, Ty informed us that there were 3 straws in Denmark which are in fact "ship-able" to the USA.

You see, since last summer (when we used our last few straws of same donor sperm to get pregnant again and didn't in 2009), we thought we would have to take a family trip to the Scandinavian Cryobank's home office in Denmark where we own 16 straws of our donor's stuff. Laws changed since getting pregnant with our first son, Hud so some of the original Danish sperm is no longer importable to the US. I don't know why, I'm not a researcher. But, we purchased all the sperm our donor provided the Danish cryobank, with the hopes that we could at least travel there one day and try again.

Travelling to Denmark is and was still open to us, but for those of you who know us closely, we are in a year of budgeting, saving, and conserving...not a great year for a Euro Vacation. Plus, I want t a tropical vacation where this Mommy can teach Hudson how to float in bathwater-like oceans.

But yesterday, so much changed! There are 3 straws in Denmark that can ship to us in SD for June insemination! Next month! Heck yeah! I can't help fantasizing about finally going to Hawaii pregnant in the fall instead of that obligatory trip to Denmark this summer to get pregnant! I bet with 3 straws we will get pregnant!!!! Cross your fingers...there are so many little hurdles and factors.

We always look at Hudson and stand in amazement that he got here via a flight from Denmark to NY as a little frozen sperm, a flight from NYC to SD, CA , and a flight up my you -know-what...and MADE it strong and thriving. We shall see what happens! :)