That's my boy

My mom just called me from Disneyland. Or rather, the hotel near Disneyland that they are staying at. Joseph had such a bad melt down that my mom had to take him out of the park. Do you get that? My mom had to take Joseph out of Disneyland. If you know my mom and know how patient and understanding she is with Joseph then you know how crazy that is. She said he screamed all the way out of the park. I'm sympathetic because I've been there, done that. I know how those meltdowns can be. It's rough. I'm glad I wasn't the one dealing with this one.

Joseph is taking a nap now and we're keeping our fingers crossed that he'll do better when he wakes up. We'll see!

Update! I just talked to Joseph on the phone. He doesn't really seem to see what the big deal was. He's worried that everyone is being (in his words) too hard on him. Sigh. That kid.

Great Googley Moogley

I just got the best Google hit ever! what are the disadventages of having the internet in your home

Glad to be of help to spelling challenged people everywhere as they decide if they should go ahead and use that free AOL disk or not.

My boy

My little boy is in California now for his week long vacation with grandma and grandpa. I miss him already. He called me when they had a layover in Las Vegas. He thought it was pretty cool that there were slot machines right in the airport. He wanted to play them too.

It sounds like he's already having a great time. I have to confess that I'm a little bit sad. I wanted to be the one who took him to Disneyland for the first time. I'm glad he's getting to see it and all but I still wish I was the one showing it to him. Sigh.

In other news, Jesse's office Christmas part was last night. It was pretty fun. About 20 different people stopped me to ask me if I was feeling better from my stomach flu. Jesse must have sent out a newsletter or something. It was a little bizzare to know that his entire company knew I had the poops.

Now I have to go brave the crowds to do a little Christmas shopping. Wish me luck.

Not good

Ugh. Stomach flu. Not good. Back to bed now. Buy me presents to make me feel better.

The best of me

I was re-reading some of my stuff from the start of my blog. There's some kind of fun stuff in there. For example:

Joseph is attracted to dogs.

Joseph comments on my lovely lady lumps.

Jesse has the lamest reason ever for not watching the kids.

I talk about my fear of corn-backs.

Joseph wonders what his head is made of.

I want to kill someone for saying a word wrong.

A commercial gives me body hair anxiety.

Joseph wants to wash an old man.

Joseph wants a healthy colon.

Joseph talks about why you shouldn't take candy from strangers.

Joseph gets a 6 pack.

I eat trash from a deli.

I hope you enjoy these. I did.

The safari begins

Per Ben's suggestion, I will now be refering to my surrogacy journey as my surrogacy safari. So here's my safari update.

The PIPs called the agency and said they are "thrilled" that I want to work with them and that they can't wait to meet me and that I sound like I'm "perfect" for them. Jesse and I will be flying back to LA to meet them on the 17th/18th but at this point I feel very confident that we'll be safari-ing together. Then, the PIPs will become my IFs. Awesome.

Zicam woes

Joseph has another flippin' cold and I am determined not to get this one. I've started using the Zicam mouth spray every 3 hours. It's supposed to taste like mint. I think it sort of tastes like watered-down mouthwash filtered through hot ass. It's pretty bad. But, yesterday I woke up with a sore throat and a stuffy nose and this morning I did not. So it's all good.

On Saturday I went to the Mall of America to meet up with 4 other Minnesota surrogates. It was a lot of fun and very interesting. All 5 of us are on our first surrogacy ..... um, not journey, but some other word for journey. One of the women is about 6 weeks pregnant and the rest of us are all just very recently matched. It sounds like several of us may be having transfers very close to each other.

Even though I had never met any of these women before it was really nice sitting and talking with them. We had a ready-made topic of conversation and within minutes of meeting each other we were laughing and talking like we had known each other for a long time. We hope to get together again after the holidays. It will be nice to be able to talk to some people who are all going through the same things.

Of course, all of this is assuming that my agency ever call me back.....

What was I thinking?

What was a thinking naming my last entry "Big PIPin'"? I've gotten about a dozen hits from people looking for that exact thing. I'm thinking they had to be a little let down with what they found.

In other news, no call from the agency today. I'm sure I won't hear anything over the weekend either. I guess that means either the PIPs hate me and don't want to work with me or that ...... they haven't decided yet for some reason. I don't know.

In yet other news, Elle took her first steps today. Ok, so they were more like little shuffles and it sort of made her move sideways rather than forward but I'm still counting it as her first steps. She's so proud of herself! She stands there with a big smile on her face and her chest all puffed out. It's cute.