Blue eyes, Brown hair

WHAT COLOR EYES WOULD YOUR CHILDREN HAVE?

I’m not going to lie, I came across this website when Mr.DJW and I were just dating. I played around on it just because it’s something fun and I’m a nerd who loves all things science and genetics and history and bla bla bla. I SOOO SWEAR I DID NOT WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES FOUR YEARS AGO!

Recently, I came across the website, after having forgotten all about it for years. Now that we are actually trying for babies, I just HAD to try it again!

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Alas, my dream for a brown haired, blue eyed baby will most likely not come true. Mr.DJW always wished he had blue eyes. His dad and all of his siblings had blue eyes. FIL also had blonde hair though and since those are all recessive genes, I’m not surprised that Mr.DJW ended up with his mama’s hair/eye color.

Oh the things I do to keep the baby fever at bay…

P.S. If you’re curious what I look like with green/brown eyes, here’s a pic of me back when I used to wear colored-contacts. You know, back when I used to pretend that I was All-American, non-Asian? LOL

(Personal Photos – Click on Pic to Enlarge – Do it, I know you want to see a BIG PICTURE OF MY FACE! )

–Give it a go! What will your babies eye colors be? DON’T TELL ME IF IT’S BLUE EYES, I’LL JUST DIE WITH ENVY. (Just kidding, sort of.)

 

Weekly Check-In

I’m not pregnant yet, but with the ups and downs of my ever changing blog post schedule, I wanted to come by and say hello!

To all my friends near and far and to new followers from the best baby/family forum “HelloBee” and elsewhere, HELLO & WELCOME to my feeble attempts at whipping this site into my TTC journey journal. I’ve got a couple of posts lined up, so bear with me as I get into the swing of setting a tone with my blog for the FIRST TIME EVER!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Just to tide you over until next post, here’s a picture of Mr.DJW & I getting our turkey ready on T-day morning! ;P

A Woman’s Woes

I have some blog posts lined up as I dig deeper into our personal TTC journey, but had to quick post this entry today.

I had to go off of birth control in the middle of October due to some minor issues (which I’ll write more about later) and since then have been waiting to figure out my “cycles” and “ovulation” day(s) and all of those other nitty, gritty details in the world of baby making. I haven’t quite wrapped my head around everything and want to get started on figuring out my body ASAP.

Unfortunately, I am 7 days late and waiting for my first period (post-birth control) to no avail. I’m not pregnant. And it’s totally frustrating trying to get a handle on my body when I have no starting point.

I wish it was as easy as they made it seem back in high school health class. Don’t have sex, you’ll end up with a teen pregnancy. HA! If only it were that easy. Did you know that most women have a 48 hour window to get pregnant? Once a month? And if it doesn’t happen, you have to wait another month to go at it again?

Mr.DJW and I are in this gray area of Not Trying Not To Conceive and we’re confused on this back and forth of, “Are we trying?” “Are we not?”

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted my period this badly. EVER. IN. MY. LIFE.

Thanks for listening to me rant/vent.

XO Hope you all had a good weekend and Happy Thanksgiving Week! Some happy posts to follow shortly!

Next Chapter

Mrs.JYW & Mr.DJW sittin’ in [by] a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G…

First comes LOVE

Then comes MARRIAGE

Then comes BABY in the baby carriage.

(This baby looks close enough to a half Polish/German & half Korean mix, no? )

So here we are, 1 year & 2 months into our wedded bliss, happily embarking on the next chapter of our lives! **NO WE ARE NOT PREGNANT YET!!!!!** Again, **NO WE ARE NOT PREGNANT YET!!!!!**

There’s a plethora of resources and endless amounts of information when it comes to all things BABY, but I wanted to start by blogging about how we got here, the decision to “try to conceive.”

Our original plan was to wait until after our 2 year anniversary in 2012. We, of course, had a list of “to-do”s to accomplish before planning for babies. Our list was no different than any other couple in our shoes. We wanted to be settled into our first home, pay down our debts, and have a comfortable nest egg “In Case of Emergency.”

Luckily, we were blessed to have purchased our home a year prior to our wedding day. (*Mr.DJW actually proposed on our final walk through night before closing.) The first year was spent getting settled in, putting in $$ for maintenance repairs, and just getting used to the bills and responsibilities of home ownership. We also spent that first year paying for part of our wedding. Needless to say, we weren’t financially stable and wanted to spend some “us” time together enjoying marriage without babies.

Our wedding day came and went; our first year of marriage flew by just as fast. Throughout the year, Mr.DJW and I would catch baby fever at different times and shake each other out of it. With both of our grad school programs + full time work, we just couldn’t justify trying to have babies in 2011.

However, when my 28th birthday rolled around this past August, we had “future baby” talks with our parents over a family birthday dinner. Both of us couldn’t shake the adorable images of our dads holding tiny lil’ babies out of our heads and Mr.DJW got really excited about big family trips to Disney World. That’s when both of us caught the fever, together,AT. THE. SAME. TIME! It was hard to shake it out of our system. But, we got a hold of ourselves and left the baby plans just as we had planned: try in September 2012.

A month later during our 1 year anniversary trip to Cabo, our fever came back on fire! All of the couples we’d met on our trip were ALL trying. (They’d gotten married in September 2010 as well.) We were surrounded by baby talk and when we got back, it’s all we could talk about, outside of our normal duties of work/home life. We realized that checklist of “to-do”s we had were all achieved, but one: my grad school degree (which had already changed due to my dropping out of law school and switching to an MBA program). I knew that my flexible program could work well within our timeline for baby making and so we started to have serious talks.

We started throwing around timelines, what season I’d prefer to be pregnant, how to get in our best shape, etc. From there we’d decided that even though we were anxious and eager to start trying, we wanted to make sure that we did all of the right things in preparation and that the start of the new year would give us time to get off medication (BC, etc.), start a manageable and achievable workout regiment, and enjoy the holidays before diving into full-on baby making mode.

So, here we are. October was the month that we really started making baby steps toward the baby making journey, but I’ll recap that in a future post. We’re currently NTNTC (not trying not to conceive) with plans to actively TTC (try to conceive) in January 2012!

Here’s to all things TTC & BABY! CHEERS!

– Do you want to have children or have children? How did you decide?

BBC Top 100 Books

The last two days’ NaBloPoMo blog prompts haven’t sparked any interesting thoughts in my tired brain, so I wasn’t going to post until sometime this weekend or early on Monday. But as I was perusing through my reader, I came across my girl Amy aka The Bookworm Wife’s entry about the BBC’s top 100 Books list. To my surprise, I’ve read more than a few books on the list, most of which I loved with a few that were really hard to get through, but manadatory through required reading in my high school/college days. On another note, checking this list made me want to read some of my childhood favorites. It’s so easy for great books to fade in our memories when it’s been years without re-reading it as a refresher. Enough blabbing, the books I’ve read (46) are bolded:

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare  
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Which books have you read??