The Golden Grahams

Ever since I declared my major of Elementary Education, I've been very torn and wishy-washy about actually going through with becoming a teacher and establishing that as my future career. The reason why I chose it in the first place was a result of a couple of life experiences. My initial major in college was Exercise Science. I only declared that because I know I absolutely loved doing sports growing up and I love being physically active on a daily basis. However, I had no career plan or any idea as to what I wanted to do with an EXS degree. Around the same time I was feeling this way, I just happened to get a summer job working at the community park I grew up at. I would be a recreational aide/leader for the City & County's Summer Fun program! It was my first time being in charge of my own group of kids. I absolutely loved it, so much so that I have done it every summer for 4 consecutive years. Two years ago I also received a calling (sort of - I wasn't set a...

Today I began taking a medication called Clomid. I named this blog post "Taking a Leap of Faith" because I have been scared to use it until now. I first got the medication back in September when I was initially diagnosed with PCOS. Today I decided to start taking the pills. I just wanted to document this because when you are TTC (trying to conceive) you learn to document EVERYTHING. Because everything that happens with your woman parts is important and useful information to tell your doctor when you go and see them so they can make the appropriate changes if necessary to your treatment. I asked a really close friend of mine's mother if she had any advice for me since she went through this same experience almost 20 years ago. The first thing she told me was to be aware of moodiness, because like BCP it affects your hormones and any hormone-altering drug can make you moody. This warning is more for Josh than for me :P haha, just kidding love. Anyway, she also said t...