Breastfeeding affects different women differently. For some women, they have no cycles or long, irregular cycles up until they wean. Other women get pregnant 6 weeks PP while EBFing night and day. Neither one of these is terribly common, but there isn't necessarily anything wrong with you if you fall anywhere on that spectrum.
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You don't have to answer this to me, but what is your weight like? If you think you might be overweight, it would be wise to loose some weight in preparation for your next pregnancy, and it may help even out with your cycle lengths. If you think you might be underweight, you may need to gain a few lbs in order to conceive. There is some evidence that women may need a bit more body fat for conception than they need to be healthy. If you have lost weight recently, this may be why your cycle is taking so long. Estrogen is fat soluble, so if you don't have enough body fat, you won't ovulate. (ie. runners amenorrhea)
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Personally, I have long, irregular cycles because although I am healthy, I am still breastfeeding a lot, and sometimes my body fat percentage is too low to be fertile. I know that my current cycle is longer than normal due to the fact that I recently got sick and lost some weight.
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Temping does not help to predict when ovulation will come. In people with more regular cycles, they can establish a normal pattern and get a better idea of when they will ovulate (a little more specific than the rhythm method). For those of us with long cycles, this helps a lot more for CTA. For example, I have never ovulated before day 19, so after a few cycles, I can guess that I'm not going to get pregnant based on BD before CD 13ish.
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Temping is a good way to tell if you have ovulated. If you have 6 temperatures that are lower followed by 3 undisturbed temperatures that are in an elevated pattern, and at least 1 of those 3 higher temperatures is .4 degrees higher than the highest of the pre-shift 6, then you can be pretty sure that you ovulated, especially if you experienced a dry-up of CM at the same time. You can throw out one or 2 disturbed temps in your pre-shift 6, and there are a few other provisions to make it work out to be sure, but your 3 higher temps must all be undisturbed. A few women's temperatures aren't raised that high, even though they ovulate, but they can still establish a cover line so that all (or all but 1 or 2) post-O temps are higher than the recent (5-6 days) pre-O temps.
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FF is only looking for temps that are lower for a couple days and then higher for a few days. This is a highly inaccurate method of determining ovulation, especially for people experiencing long cycles because the reality is that when your body isn't about ready to ovulate, your temperature jumps around a lot. You'll have a few days up and and couple days down, and a few days higher, but then your temp will come back down, and this is a sign that you're not ovulating yet, not a sign that you did ovulate. You haven't even had 3 days in a row above the cover line that FF established, so I'd have a really hard time making the claim that you have ovulated. It's usually much more clear than that. Rarely would it be so difficult to tell.
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I was able to chart the return of my fertility after childbirth (almost 21 months old), and there were a lot of times that my up and down pattern looked kinda like it might be ovulation if I shaved some temperatures and labeled some other temps as disturbed, but the temperature rise never held until I did ovulate, and when I did ovulate, I had a very clear pre-shift 6 with fertile CM and then CM dried up as my temperature rose .2 degrees above the highest of my pre-shift 6 on day 1 and .4 degrees above on days 2 and 3.
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CM is a much better indicator that you might be getting ready to ovulate.
 copious amounts of CM
