Normal!

I went to the doctor today to get my test results from last week. I did a transvaginal ultrasound and a progesterone blood test. The ultrasound showed that all my lady parts are normal and the progesterone showed that I am ovulating normally.

I've had all day to absorb the info, but it still seams unbelievable. I was expecting to have something wrong because it seems like a lot of women that I know have some sort of fertility problem, so I should too right? But nope, I'm normal. I figured that statistically at 37 I should have some sort of fertility problem, but nope, I'm normal.

Now it's Dave's turn to figure out if he's normal. I guess that is my new worry, we are both normal, but no kids. Is that even possible?

I keep thinking of my Great Grandma Jensen and how she got married at 35 then had my Grandpa and his twin brother a year later. What if she had this same worry? That was back in 1918, so there would not have been the modern fertility medicine. How would she have coped with these problems? Thank Heavens I live in 2011, almost 2012, and all the tests I just took to tell me "don't stress all will be good!"

Listening

Since I have coughing attacks every time I try to speak, thanks to this current cold/flu/whatever it is, Dave and I have been listening to the Book of Mormon instead of reading it. Click on a specific chapter then look on the right side of the page the first link says "Listen". Some of the manuals and General Conference talks have the "Listen" option too, so that is what we did for FHE last night. Dave has the app on his phone too and has used it during YM lessons. Too bad they don't have the "Listen" option on the YW lesson manual yet :( I also listened to my favorite Conference talk from October by Elder Ian S Arden, but don't get thrown off by his New Zealand accent.

Thanks to Pinterest...

...I found this blog that has great cleaning solutions. It's called One Good Thing by Jillee. She also has facebook page called Sweet Deals by Jillee. Seriously, this woman has great ideas for all kinds of stuff! Check it out!

Riding side PB's

I requested the PBs of my Grandma and Grandpa Riding. They came this week. Grandpa's was done in 1977 and Grandma's in 1958. My Grandpa would be considered a Jack Mormon, maybe that is why it took so long to get his PB done. Grandpa didn't smoke or drink like other Jack Mormons, he just didn't go to church every Sunday. He would rather sit in his Lazy Boy chair and watch WWF (the old version of WWE) on HBO on Sundays. He would drive Grandma and the other old ladies in the ward to church and choir practice and back home. (Grandma never got her driver's license, even though she was really good at criticizing Grandpa on his driving skills.) But he was still an awesome Grandpa!

Grandpa's page 1

Grandpa's page 2

Grandma's page 1

If you can read the paragraph, "Do not turn anyone from your door who shall come seeking aid or assistance..." That totally reminded me that Grandma would feed all the stray cats that came through the neighborhood. I always thought it was just another quirky thing about Grandma.

Grandma's page 2

Sick

I'm really boring when I am sick. Dave's had the whole week off and I'm sick so he hasn't done anything fun or productive except take me to the doctor and go get OJ for me. But it was his fault that I am sick anyway, he gave me his germs! He was sick for over a month, now I got it. Major cough and now my left ear is totally plugged up with mucus.

Tuesday for YW's they came to our house to register for indexing. Back in August the LDS Tech website announced that 50% of all chapels worldwide should have internet by the end of the year. Then Elder Bednar was here in September and suggested to have the youth have Family History callings because they are more tech savvy than the current older generation who are called to be Family History consultants (which is what he talked about in his General Conference address). So a few weeks back the Bishop called the youth in our ward to be Family History consultants. The internet is slowly being installed into our chapel, but until it is complete we have been hosting Tuesday night activities at our house whenever we need the internet. The Young Men where here two weeks ago, then the Young Women two days ago, just to register for indexing. Since almost all of them have laptops, they can do indexing at home now.

If you have never tried indexing, it's kinda cool. Tuesday I did draft notices in Hawaii for WWII and voter registration in California in the 1880's and the Young Women did 1871 UK Census records.

What does my mother want to know about?

It's been a month since I blogged anything. I wasn't really sure what to write, maybe writers block? But then I need to think, "what would my mother want to know about?" Especially since we live so far apart. So here are some of the things that have happened in the last month.

We were redoing the YW board in the Bishop's office and I used permanent maker that bleed threw on the Bishop's desk. Dave and I found that toothpaste removes marker. Here is the after, we forgot to take before pictures.

I got more PB's. The first is my great great Grandfather John Edward Rogerson's, then my great Grandmother Madora LaVerna Rogerson Jensen, then my Grandpa E Q Jensen.

These two were done on the same day, 3 September 1901 in Monticello, and from the page numbers they were only done nine apart.

There are actually two for my Grandpa, one in 1933 and the other in 1939.

I have sent my literature review off to get published by the Medical Problems of Performing Arts journal. I have no idea when they will notify me whether they will publish it or not. So I am still working on editing the others so they will be publication ready soon. I should be pilot testing my next two projects soon.

Last week I was looking on FamilySearch and noticed that someone was trying to seal my Grandpa Riding to his second wife Mary. None of us really liked her. And she is already sealed to her first husband, so I'm not to sure why someone is doing this. So I notified my Dad and uncles about this. Then put a message on my Grandpa's and Mary's name telling everyone that they did not have permission from our family to perform the sealing. I told my Dad that they need to contact Mary's family and let them know incase they didn't, but my Uncle doesn't remember how to contact them. So we've done all we can do.

The company Dave works for, the RAC, was bought out by another company. You know when that happens things get changed. Dave was inform that his department was being eliminated, but that everyone was going to be moved to other departments by January. For two weeks Dave worked in another department on days, but then last week went back to his normal job at nights, but then was told this coming week he is going back to days for the foreseeable future. He is still in limbo until the company decides where he is going to be permanently and we don't know when that is going to happen.

My calling is 1st counselor in the Young Women's. I am always teasing the YW that they need to remember to flirt when they go to church dances. A couple of weeks back another YW leader heard from other church members in another stake that one of our YW has a bad reputation for flirting. Great, now I feel bad for encouraging the flirting. It didn't help that this YW had a boyfriend for a short time and he is one of those bad boys, or in this area they call them chaves, it was even fb official. It caused a stir for about a week, then died down. Everything is alright now and the good LDS boys are even asking her to dance at the church dances.

Dave and I were looking at the NHS website (England's socialized healthcare) and it said if you have been trying for more than six months and are over 35 then go see your GP about starting the fertility problems process. So I went to see my GP and they took some blood samples and my hormone levels are normal. Next week, Dave has his appointment with his GP to start his part and I am having a ultrasound (I think to check egg count) and another blood test to check more hormones. We knew getting married in our late 30's that there is a higher risk of not getting pregnant, miscarriage, having something medically wrong with the baby, or even a chance at multiples (yippee!). We even talked about adopting if we couldn't have kids, but the LDS social services website says you have to be married for 2 years before you can start the adoption process. The adoption process in England is so freaking LONG! After the UK government got rid of all the adoption companies that refused to work with same-sex couples, I really doubt that they would allow an LDS couple adopt. So if we can't have a biological child, then we will have to wait until we move to Utah to adopt.

We had the missionaries over for dinner a couple of weeks ago and they challenged Dave and I to do mormon.org profiles. Dave already had one, click here, so I made one, click here.

Is this what you wanted to know Mom?