Leaving again

Happy feast day!

Boy, I really bothered St. Therese a lot today. Hopefully she heard me.

I prayed my heart out for one girl who was going into the abortion clinic today. I just begged and begged St. Therese to intercede and make her walk right out of that clinic. Well, she did leave a short time later, but who knows what she was even in there for! What if she was in there for a pap smear and St. Therese heard my prayer and was like, "Really? Are you sure that's what you want?"

Seriously though, I know she hears me and I know she takes my requests to the Father. And when my prayers aren't answered I know there is a good reason.

I'm excited because we're leaving tomorrow for a quick trip to the beach. We had planned to go on our actual anniversary in early September, but I definitely wasn't back to normal after surgery at that point so we postponed the trip.

It should be nice weather - high 70's - and I'm really looking forward to just relaxing.

I'm also feeling really good about my ovulation. Yesterday, in my typical pessimistic fashion, I focused on things to possibly worry about - like why the follicle was shrinking - but today it's really sinking in that I actually ovulated on cycle day 14. That is huge!

I know you don't have to ovulate on the "textbook" day 14 to conceive, but for me it's just evidence that something is becoming more normal. I'm hoping this is not a fluke, and that perhaps my hormones are regulating themselves now that the endo is gone. Even though it was unnoticeable on my ovary until August, I'd like to think that it was still there, however small, messing up my fertility for a while now.

And here's a question - if I know I ovulated yesterday, but still have peak-type mucus today, how do I count peak +7? I'm thinking of counting from yesterday, instead of whatever my Creighton peak day ends up being, since we actually have proof of ovulation. So that would make today peak +1.

Well I'm very thankful that I've been feeling really peaceful lately. Praise God, because I had enough anxiety the last couple months to last me a lifetime! I really have felt great the last week or so, and have had a lot of little blessings lately.

But I feel like I can't write a post lately to save my life, so I'll end this now. Maybe it's because I have nothing to say! Hopefully Monday will just be a picture post!