Celebrity Musings, Exercise & Happenings

Goodness - have you all heard of Ce.line Di.on's news? Her 6th IVF was successful - with twins. Six. Six!

I can't even begin to imagine what six might feel like. Geez. So amazing for her. Makes me wonder if I should start doing acupuncture (she did). Congrats to her!

And what's this with Al and Tip.per??? I just don't get it. My pastor wrote a very thought provoking blogpost called Usefuleness if anyone is interested. It questions how & why we make relationships expendable... interesting spiritual food for thought.

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Operation: Get My Body Back started out strong... I went running yesterday morning - 3 miles. AND I went to bik.ram yo.ga last night but I started to not feel well. At all. In fact, 1/3 of the way in, I had to lay down on the mat, for the rest of the time. That's a long time. The class is 1 1/2 hours long. I felt miserable.

My stomach hurt when I got home. I thought maybe I was dehydrated. My dear husband made me some food. I felt better.

Then at 3am, I woke up with blood dripping down my leg and blood all over the sheets. I couldn't believe it. My period had ended 2 days ago. I just had pantyliner blood during the day yesterday. This, though, was an incredible amount.

Luckily B was sleeping in another room (forgot to get Clar.itin and he snores pretty loudly without it!), so cleaning up all that blood was not disruptive to him. But not fun at 3am either.

So... I decided to take the exercise easy for now. I may run or swim tomorrow but no yo.ga. That is intense and I have to ease back into this. My doc said that blood may be leftover disruption from the miscarriage.

I'm excited for those of you who were interested in Operation: Get My Body Back... so let's keep at it! What have you done so far this week?

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In other news, I'm excited for our annual Company Day on Friday. Being in HR, I'm essentially responsible for putting it altogether - presentations and team building activities. All 80 of our employees will be in town from other offices and signficant others are invited to a bowling event in the evening.

And then I'm excited for Saturday. Our church works really closely with this organization called Court.ney's Hou.se, which gets girls out of prostitution and into safe houses. It's remarkable work. This weekend, our church is putting together one of the rooms in this safe house. We painted last week and I'll be going over this weekend to get furniture we've gotten from craigs.list and get nice inspirational things for the walls, etc. So incredibly meaningful and had kept me going recently.

Capt Su.lly's Book & Infertility

Remember Captain Su.lly who landed the plane in the Hudson River and was commended for bringing everyone aboard to safety? He published a book last year called High.est Duty.

I haven't read it but my father-in-law has. He knows about our struggles, and  I've written about him before about his compassion to us in my Blessing from my Father in Love post.

Well, father in love has once again reached out to let me know how much "Su.lly's" infertility struggles touched him because of what we're going through. He says:

I have the pages from Sully's book for you. Chapter 5 (pg. 66) is entitled "The Gift of Girls." It tells of meeting his wife and much of their lives together. However, the births of their daughters begins at the bottom of page 78 and goes through the end of the chapter Pg. 86. It is really touching and very emotional to me. Hope you enjoy it.

Well, I just so happened to be in an airport this weekend and picked it up while I was waiting for my flight and read those pages he picked out for me.

I was touched by it. I was touched by Su.lly's struggle, by the lack of science available to he and his wife at the time compared to us, by the amazing gift they were given of adoption.

If you get a chance to read these pages, I'm sure you'll appreciate it as much as I did... and you can thank my father-in-love for passing it on!