Ocean Dreamer

So here’s an update on my adventures with biphobia on my lesbian moms listserve.  You can read about what happened here.  After my post on the listserve, I received many responses.  Some were from women who agreed with me (although one went back on her agreement under pressure from the group).  Most, however, were along [...]

My sweet, sweet girl is sick with a kidney infection. This is her second one in less than two years and I am really sad and worried about her. One vet told me she might not live that long, which really upset me. That was after the first kidney infection, though, and until [...]

Okay, so perhaps I had created a bubble of hallucination, as Sarah commented yesterday.  After my semi-confusing pregnancy test yesterday morning, I bought a set of 2 electric ones, so there would be less confusion.  I took one yesterday afternoon and it was negative - but, I thought, okay, maybe the HCG* hasn’t had time [...]

So today is 12 dpo* and I took a pregnancy test and - guess what - it has a *very* slight, so slight you almost can’t see it, second line.  The test and control lines are pink, and if the test line were any lighter, it seriously wouldn’t exist.  I’m posting a pic here, but [...]

Another quick update as I am currently swimming through the end-of-quarter-rush craziness.  However, I went to my regular acupuncture appointment the other day, and my acupuncturist said my pulse felt slippery - the way it does when you’re pregnant.  Whoa.  I’m still *days* away from even a glimmer of hope of having an accurate pregnancy [...]

Just a brief update, folks.  This morning my BBT was back down to pre-ovulation levels and my fertility monitor *finally* read peak.  My plan was to do a short workout, then inseminate, but as I was working out I could feel what may have been the actual ovulation.  So, I cut the workout short (yes, [...]

Okay, I just don’t get it. As I wrote yesterday, I hadn’t ovulated - at least, according to the fertility monitor and OPK I’m using. Then, this morning, my BBT had risen .4 degrees - above my cover line, though still a lot lower than any other post-ovulation BBT I’ve ever had. [...]

So it is cd 18 and I still have not ovulated. This is the longest wait I have had in nearly 2 years of charting. I did switch antihistamines in the hopes of upping my eggwhite CM (it’s worked so far!), but otherwise I can’t figure out what’s going on. I haven’t [...]

I’m on several listserves for lesbian moms and women who are TTC.  One of them labeled themselves as being “just for lesbians.”  It was the first one I found and I joined it because I wanted the community, even though I was strongly opposed to the exclusionary policy.  Recently, the listowner received a request from [...]

A bit late, but here are some photos from Pride last weekend. I went to many of the events and loved it. Last year I skipped most of them because of my parents’ Conservative Cruise got into Seattle the same weekend. (Yes, you read that right. People from Fox News and [...]