The following day we journeyed farther south to Dunmore East where John's brother and his wife had hired a holiday home for the Easter holidays. It was a bit of a Walton's Mountain type gathering. John's parents, two brothers, their wives and between them four children. But it was nice to spend time with the clan.
In the past few months John has had his Bob the Builder hat on a lot of the time, building an extension on to the back of our house, onto the kitchen. It's a sunroom, roughly 12ft x 13ft, which is the same floor area as the kitchen. Nowadays it is really coming into its own, as our back garden faces south. So now every day there is any bit of sunshine the temperature in there is in the mid twenties or higher. There still is quite a bit of work needed to complete it, the ceiling has to be insulated and plastered, but we have got to the stage where it's habitable. A couple of weeks ago we dragged the sofas out there from the living room, and set up the computer so that we can watch movies in the evenings. But I love just coming home from work, sitting down with a book in the sunshine and just chilling. Absolute heaven. I just hope that we will get a good summer this year and that I will have a life of leisure in the sunshine for a couple of months.
Today is cd19, and I only got a smiley face this morning, which is rather later than usual. I was beginning to think that this was going to be an anovulatory cycles, but my ovaries have finally gotten off their sun loungers and kicked into action. I'm going through alternating cycles of "Right, this is going to be the month" and "Jeez I am pissed off with all this, I really can't be arsed". We are due back to the fertility clinic on Tuesday week, so we will see where we go from here.
So another two week wait begins. My expectations are lacking as ever.
4 comments:
Good luck!
That house makes me kind of homesick!
It's SO Irish looking. Right down to the unfinished extension.
Whoa. We can't even change a tyre and he does that? I am impressed.
And so the next fourteen days begin, good luck.
Good luck and ooh, I wish I had a sunroom to sit and read in.
X box - You're so right, it is so typically Irish looking! That photo was taken in the depths of winter. It's tidied up a bit since then, but we still don't have the external plastering done.
WFI - I know, I got a very handy hubby! Thanks for the good luck wishes.
May - Thanks! And if a trip to Ireland is ever on the cards, you can always come and sit in our sunroom. If you don't mind sharing it with cats that is ;)
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