In the Mean Time

The more I think about it, the more and more I realize just how great the timing has been and will be for this whole process. How perfect to have Christmas to keep me busy?!

(Hello by the way! Hope everyone's having a great pre-Christmas week!)

I've had all kinds of thoughts and mental images come to mind over the last week about my up-coming surrogacy adventure so I thought I'd write a little about them to look back on later. I've been thinking about the whole journey; beginning to end. How I'll feel, how the pictures will look, how elated my IPs will be when I get that first + pee stick, etc, etc. The anticipation is thrilling! I suppose I have an active imagination but its fun to fantasize about it. I certainly don't have a lack of other things to think about and do...but in case you haven't noticed, I'm super pumped to start this journey and in my own little corner of my mind, its fun to envision what lies ahead of me in the (hopefully) not so distant future.

I remember watching a Cinderella movie, (the old Rodgers & Hammerstein musical one) when I was a little girl where Julie Andrews sings about her own little corner in her own little chair. That's about where I feel I am with this journey right now. Its there, but its in a little corner of my mind while I wait.

In the mean time...life goes on. Whew! Back to this being good timing. If ever there were a time to take my mind off waiting its Christmas time! So much to do and think about. Especially this year with two little boys who are both old enough to throughly enjoy it and lots of good friends to do fun Christmas things with.

 For example, tomorrow I have a cookie swap to go to at my friend Heather's house which is fan-tabulous because:
1) She is hosting coffee day for me so I have a break from my manic, half-hour-before-everyone-shows-up cleaning spree
2) I will be forced to get myself out of my house for a least part of the morning even though its COLD!
3) We get cookies! and who the heck doesn't like cookies?!

Speaking of friends, I sure have some great ones. I watched the Barbara Walters special where she interviewed Oprah this morning. Well, I take that back, it came on a few nights ago, but I had to record it because I never get to watch any shows or programs I like the night they air. (Sometimes not even the same week!) Anyhow, during part of the interview Barbara-"wa-wa" as we call her, asked Oprah about her relationship with her longtime friend Gayle King. After they got past the part where O says she's not gay or lesbian (who cares anyway?) Barbara asks Oprah what Gayle means to her. Her words gave me goosebumps. After a pause, she said, "Gayle is...the mother I never had. The sister...I always imagined and the friend...everyone deserves." Wow.

Wow! I loved that. Maybe it was the way she said it. So much emotion. It must have come up from her toes it was that deep. I've never been a dedicated O watcher but I do love some of her shows and I absolutely can't *wait* to check out her new network when it starts up. I'm secretly hoping she'll have a featured show on surrogacy so I can watch!

But back to my friends... See? Lots on my mind. Little scatter brained today, ha!

 First, ok... we've been stationed at this base now for almost 5 years. In military standards, that's a pretty long stay in one place. I can honestly say with 110% certainty that I am ready to leave. I'm not in a rush, but I'm done. I'm ready to move on and experience new things. If it were permanent, I would adjust. But since its not, I've had my fun, this is not my home and I'm ready for new scenery.

H-o-w-e-v-e-r, we will be here until sometime in 2012. No way around it. Which is totally cool, fine, whatever. In the mean time, I have things here that I love and will be very sad to say goodbye to. #1 are my friends. I have one friend in particular that I've become very close with and I have to give her a shout out. Her name is Sheryl, (with an "S", don't forget!) and you all need to know her. She will be a big part of this journey and she is absolutely, positively, without a doubt the kind of friend everyone deserves. I have lots of wonderful friends in my life and they know who they are but some you just click with on a different level than others and Sheryl is definitely one of them. Maybe its our convenient location (I could throw a rock and hit her house) but more likely its that we're made of the same stuff and have an almost scary number of things in common. She gets me, I get her. Its pretty simple really. But simple in a really awesome, I thank-God-for it kinda way. I could fill a whole post about Sheryl and my other wonderful girlfriends but you get the point, good friends are better than facebook, puppies and chocolate.
(And that's sayin' something!)

Me & Sheryl-bug ; )

Wow, why didn't someone stop me from tryin' to write a book?! lol

Friends, surro thoughts and chocolate to be continued...

'Night folks! ; )