Join any group you would like sounds like you fit in the the TCC group and the Toddler group. There are monthly chat threads in each where you can talk about almost anything you would like.

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Always want to know who's on the ttc train again.

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Not me.

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ditto, LOL!

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We might start ttc again after I lose all my weight

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After his birthday, our vacation, and we are moving we might start trying.

I wish, but I think we are done.

Laura-are you planning on just Nathan?

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We are done over here!

vicki - No I want more children but I want to go to Hawaii and not be nursing or pregnant. The plan will probably back fire on me and I will have my first AF in over 2 years. Hawaii trip is in January. We will probably start trying when we are there.

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laura-oh cool, I totally understand you wanting to wait till after that.

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We're going to start ttc again after Jaicee turns 1. So probably October for sure! Honestly, I'm ready now but I'm the matron of honor at my sisters Seattle wedding in April '09, I'm also singing TWO arias, so I don't want to be so pregnant that I can't travel, or have a newborn and not WANT to travel. So we're waiting till October.

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LOL, Jenna ~ (As a non-practicing 1st soprano) I'd be more worried about having the lung capacity to sing properly! I remember seeing Martina McBride once on an awards show, looking ready to pop, and she's got a SERIOUS set of pipes, one of the most underrated female voices around I think - anyway, poor dear could barely catch her breath enough to get through the performance. And she's one of those performers who's always PERFECT, and even her 'lightweight' songs, (don't know if you listen to country) some of them are incredibly difficult. There was one years ago where the the first two notes in each line was a quick octive jump, over and over and over, and her pitch was perfect over, and over, and over. People don't realize how HARD that is!

Shania Twain beat her out as Best Female Vocalist that year. That's when Awards shows lost all credibility with me. Shania Twain is a great performer, but I'd never put her in the vocalist category.

I'm babbling.

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Steph~ Yes, I forgot to add that I needed to be not too pregnant to SING properly! I'm a second soprano (I'm called a lyric soprano.) Not the high litling sounds of a coloratura, but not the deep, lusty sounds of a mezzo. I'm actually singing "Voi che Sapete" while the bridesmaids come down the aisle, and my mother and I are are singing that famous flower duet from Lakme while my sister comes down the aisle. (in french, which I have NEVER sang in! Need to get with my old voice teacher....ewww....give me Italian ANY DAY!) it's been on TONS AND TONS of movies..... YouTube - The Flower Duet (Lakmé) There's a link if anyone wants to hear it. My mother is a coloratura so she's singing the higher part.

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Steph- We are about to be TTC in the next month or so... I placed my order of EPT's, Ovulation kits, and Preseed online this morning. I told DH I knew better this time than to spend $15 per test on pregnancy tests, I'll bet I spent a few hundred dollars on them with Olivia (I'm a POAS addict). Anyways, I am charting for now to see that my cycles are going back to normal after the IUD. It's kind of exciting and kind of scarey

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Soon.. that's all I can say for now... summer if I can talk DH into it.. fall if I can't LOL

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Jenna ~ Oh, that sounds so pretty! French is NOT difficult (if you can do Italian, you can do French), once you've got the 'r's down; a little tough at first since the throat closes to make a French 'r', but you'll get it quickly -- there is a myth that you can't do a proper French 'r' while singing, but it's BS. I think it's MUCH harder to sing in German, and I grew up speaking German! But the vowel sounds are not condusive to the 'rules' of proper vocal technique. I used to joke that I could sound like I could speak any language, I just had to start speaking song lyrics...

As for me, I'm an up-in-the-stratosphere-soprano, no two ways about it. I used to sing second in my high school chamber choir, but that was just because I had a good ear (you know how bad it is in a group with 2nds who can't 'hear'!), but I'd always compete 1st. My mother used to be, but she's really a mezzo now, and we have VERY similar voices, so mine may change over time -- she was older than I am before her high began to drop. It may be that she's just vocally out of shape. I know I am (hence my 'non-practicing' joke in the first post). I twitter a little here and there, and someone asked me at work a few weeks ago you know, the 'gee, wow, you have such a great voice' and I think what I always think...you should have heard it 12-13-14 years ago when I was in 'fighting form'. *sigh* I wish I had an outlet for it. I tried to go to a church choir rehearsal last fall with a co-worker, but it's so frustrating to come from a highly trained background and be working with folks who sing for fun and have a 'nice' sound. I know it sounds snobbish. But it's frustrating. I just wish there was a place for someone like me, who's got a strong background, but isn't ever going to do anything professionally, done musicals, competed in highschool, full choir and individual, my voice teacher for several years was an opera singer, my high school church choir consisted of a bunch of us who were in choir in one of the largest districts in Texas, so we were all pretty highly trained. The church used to have full-scale musicals for years that would run for several weekends - adults and youth mixed. The youth (high school) choir even put on 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' one year.

I'm babbling again. This just used to be such a big part of me.

I'm so confused about what my future holds. I want a do-over.

And, uh, back to the topic of the thread, , YAY more babies. We should count and see if there have been 100 C-T babies born yet...last time I counted, it was around 75ish.

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