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June 2006

June 15, 2006

Time for a Quickie

Sorry yet again for the long silence - I feel like I'm saying that alot these days!  I just have time for a quick update and hopefully I'll have time for a longer one in the coming days.
For starters, all seems to be going well with the twins, much to my continued amazement.  Tomorrow (Friday) will be 14 weeks.  I still can't believe our good luck.  Word is starting to get out to family and others.  Not that I could hide it much longer I'm afraid.  I wasn't sure what my approach would be in telling people who did not know we had done IVF when asked the inevitable "do twins run in your family" question.  I find myself being incredibly forthcoming and saying "No, we did IVF.  It was a long road to get here and we're thrilled"  Thinking about my unusual lack of reticence, I realized that it's been very difficult to accept people's good wishes and excitement without making sure they realize what it took to get to this point.  It's like it's a package deal.  You can't look at this pregnancy in a vacuum and only see the good stuff.  You have to see the bad stuff that comes with it.    It adds to the feelings of fraud I have for being pregnant in the first place.  Plus having people think we're just uber-fertile just feels downright odd.  There's more I could write on this topic, such as how kind and solicitous everyone has been and how much more appreciated it would've been when mired in the shitfest that is IF.  But this is only a quickie afterall.
As for what's been keeping me so quiet?  Studying for the bar.  It sucks.  And it sucks all the energy out of me.  The bar review classes started the Wednesday after graduation (which was great by the way, I found out I graduated with honors!) and it's been 6 days a week in the library since then.  This will be the pace until the last week of July.  Oh what fun.  I'm sorry to say that until that last week in July I may continue to be somewhat quiet.  But please know that I try to check in on you when I can, usually reading by way of bloglines.  I'm sorry I'm not commenting as much as I'd like to but by the end of the day my ability to communicate coherently is not, shall we say, impressive. 
That's it for now, if I don't get to bed soon I will definitely be looking for places to take a cat nap in the library tomorrow.  Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but I kind of drool.