Happy times!

My friend Beckie had her baby this morning. He's an adorable ball of face, cheesy joints and pointy head. Looking at him makes my ovaries hurt. And not in the way they've been hurting over the last few months. :)

If we don't conceive this month, I think I'm going to step back a bit and take a break. It gets to be exhausting trying to track all the fertility signs, timing and dealing with the inevitable letdown when we don't succeed. I'm getting to the point where I can't remember why I want to have another baby so badly in the first place.

We spent the weekend on Edisto Island and it was simultaneously good times and bad times. It was wonderful to get away from the hectic life up here and just relax for a few days. My parents, brother and his fiancee' were with us and they had never been to the island before. If you've never had the chance to see the sea islands off the coast of SC you don't know what you are missing. Not all beaches in SC are like Myrtle, scout's honor.

But spending time with my family, especially for any extended amount of time, reminds me of how different I've become from the rest of them.

A few examples:

• They like to watch the history channel and Lifetime. I like to watch Sci-fi or maybe read a book instead.
• They like driving around for hours whereas I have a 3.5 year old and don't ever wish to spend one second more in the car than I have to.
• They think McCain and Palin actually make sense for this country and I think Obama and Biden are the second coming of JFK and FDR.
  

One thing I did learn from this trip. I cannot ever, ever discuss politics or morals or religion with my family. It's better for us all if we just don't discuss those types of things. My dad and I are pretty alike in our way of thinking and mannerisms but he and I couldn't be more different in our social leanings. This is hard for me, I'm the kind of person who wants people to agree with me and it pisses me off that I can't convert his line of thinking. I just have to accept that I may never make him agree with me, but I can still love him even if I think his love of Palin is batshit crazy.

All in all we managed to have a happy weekend away and it's turning out to be a good week. I'm patching things up with my friends, my husband and myself. I probably just jinxed myself and the world will end tomorrow but at least I've got a few good days out of it so far...