Got my second period, it is over and done with. :)

My husband and I are going to file our taxes as soon as we get our W2's and then I'll make him commit to a date to go file for the divorce.

Got period? I do!

Today is day one of my first period aka moon aka cycle! I've never been so excited to get my period before

Celso and I will file for the divorce after the first of the year and I am under the impression that once we file that is all the agency needs to know we are separated. Of course we will follow through but it is good to know we don't have to wait until the divorce is finalized - which is a 2 month wait minimum.

I had a slight period last week... enough that it was visible for 2 days but still not near a normal period. Ironically that is the most prominent period I've had in a year - maybe I mentally channeled my body into having one? teehee if only things were that easy!
Last night a midwife and local celebrity in my parenting group came and took out my IUD. Came to my house. In my bedroom. Awesome :o) Filled out insurance papers just as I would for any doctors office. We went into the bedroom and came out 5 minutes later.

So my to-do list as it stands today:

*get my IUD taken out DONE and have 2 regular periods hopefully next month this will start

*fax my drivers license, social security card and 6 paycheck stubs DONE*sign/fax waiver for background check DONE

*get legally separated My husband wants to be divorced instead so that is the plan. Have to fax the filing paperwork to the agency. Probably will happen after the holidays.

I've been having awesome dreams and talking to people about the surrogacy is just exciting by itself. A lady on one of the surrogacy boards carried twins with her surrogacy and delivered them vaginally. How exciting is that! I'd be much more content with carrying twins if I knew I could deliver them vaginally. The bedrest, delivering earlier and high- c-section rate is what makes me nervous about twins. That is far down the road so I'm trying not to focus on that. I still have things on my to-do list to get taken care of first. :-)

The phone interview

This morning I had the interview and I passed that step now I have some things I need to do to get to the next step. I have to:

*get my IUD taken out and have 2 regular periods
*fax my drivers license, social security card and 6 paycheck stubs
*sign/fax waiver for background check
*get legally separated from my husband so that he isn't legally part of this. if he was, he'd have to go to california with me and go through a medical and psych eval and be included in the paperwork too. fyi - we're not going through with the divorce right now because I have the medical insurance on everyone and I want the boys to be covered under a policy before we divorce. pre-exsisting conditions are a PITA!

the process in a nutshell:
when I get all that done I fly to California for the screenings and getting all that done and back can take 6-8 weeks. then they show my profile to parents and we start the match process. once someone picks me, I look at their profile and if I like them we all fly back out to California for a 'match meeting', sign the legal mumbo jumbo and stuff. The matching process can take 3-5 months. Then I start on my meds and take that for 4-6 weeks and when I'm ready and the egg donor is ready we go back to California for the transfer and wait 10 days for a blood test to see if we're pregnant :D

Finally got a chance to call the agency today and I'm scheduled for a 1 hour interview tomorrow. :) If I pass that I fly to California for a medical screening and a psych evaluation.

With me being married still she needs to look into the Kansas law's regarding that. I may have to file for legal separation so Celso isn't a legal part of this. The reason we're not filing for divorce is that the boys are covered under my medical insurance and I want Celso to have a policy in place before my policy on them terminates. Pre-existing conditions can be messy to deal with.

Last night at work I glanced at my cell phone to check the time and discovered I have several missed calls and a couple voice mail messages.

One of the messages was from the surrogacy agency. She was calling me regarding the app I submitted to get into their program. She said my app was amazing (giddy smile) and to discuss what is next.

I'm going to wait until my boss goes to lunch so I can talk on the phone with her and have my co-worker answer the phone. The phone call could take 3 minutes or 30 minutes and I want her to have my undivided attention.

My mind was racing last night as to exactly what the next steps are. I really have no clue. :o) I will post to the surro board I’m on and share the news of this.

Day 1

Took the first steps today on this journey by contacting 2 agencies. One I've already been emailing back and forth with just today (quick replies!). The second comes highly recommended by a surrogate message group I belong to. That agency has an extremely detailed and thorough online application. Took me 3 hours to fill it out doing some at work and finishing it up here at home. I really enjoyed answering the questions - some were fun, others thought provoking and it gave me a different sense to process some emotions since I had to type it out. Most of it I've only gone over and over (and over) in my head so typing it out was like an additional filter.

Off to bed. Wonder what dreams I'll have :o)