Patience is a Virtue

I am not known for having stellar patience...more like stellar impatience. Being told to wait a little while before trying for another baby was not what I wanted to hear, but it just so happened that I was able to oblige. (The fact that Jim was working almost two full time jobs for the last six months was a big help in the abstaining department.)

Now that Jim has one job, he will not be cemented to his computer chair at night and I am ready for this baby business to begin. I close my eyes every day and pray that I will be able to conceive easily, and carry a baby full term. I have achieved pregnancy, now how long will it take for it to happen again? This is the question that tortures me on a daily basis. It seems there are so many factors that have to be right in order for conception to happen, not the least of which include proper alignment of the stars, a solar eclipse, an avalanche on the southwest flank of Mt. Rainier, and a maelstrom off the coast of the Lofoten Islands, all happening at the exact same time. I think I only need to wait approximately eleventy billion years for all these factors to coincide, so I should at least have enough money by then to afford something for a baby. Like a onesie.