This time last year...

[ORLY?]

just a fun little game... what were you doing this time last year?

This time last year...
I was living in Mesa, AZ while my husband was internning at Freescale, and we finally "offically" started to TTC!
I was a size 6 and weighed 135 lbs.
I fit into over 85% of my wardobe.
I was getting 10 hours of sleep a night!

[Grivas]

this time last year (june 2, actually), I turned 33. my husband and I went out for a very traumatic burthday dinner during which we decided that we had changed our minds and wanted a child, after all. this was after 12 years together, purposefully child free. I was also 130 lbs and fit into my favorite banana republic pants and could go braless all the time (without hurting myself). now I can't even button my old shirts!

[elleystar]

This time last year, I was frantically working on my July 1 wedding.
I was getting up at 4:45 am four days a week for my health club's spring boot camp program. (i.e. paying someone good $$$ to totally kick my ass.)
I was 5'9, 150 lb, size 8/10 and in fabulous shape.

Sigh! lol. I had to miss fall boot camp!

[Jennisee]

This pretty much sums up where I was a year ago:

Dear Universe,

Just one more child, please. I've completely given up hope of a third or fourth child. At this point, I'd just give anything for a second child. Please. This is really starting to hurt.

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...rt#post7712973

Guess I need to send the universe a thank-you card.

[splath]

This time last year, I was waiting for my beta blood test to finally get down to 0 after my miscarriage in May, after our 2nd IUI cycle. I was thinking we were never going to have a healthy pregnancy and start our family.

[ErikaG]

This time last year I was convinced that we'd never have a child. We'd talked about adoption, about donor sperm, about IUI and IVF. I was freaking out over the first Clomid cycle, trying to set up things with the reproductive endocrinologist, and getting ready to travel to New York for my Dad's 70th birthday, and then to Canada for a visit with my husband's family and to witness the wedding of two dear friends.

I was feeling sad and angry and bitter as two friends announced their pregnancies, and planned a party for the first Monday in August for our Canadian ex-pat friends and my husband to celebrate "Civic Holiday."

I made plans to celebrate our second anniversary (we were married June 12, 2005) and thought about a honeymoon to make up for the one we didn't have, and talked about a vacation together to somewhere fun and exciting (and all our choices seemed to be less than child-friendly.)

With distress, I bought myself a Clear Blue Easy Fertility Monitor, to make an effort to time things properly, and hoped, without much hope that the Clomid would overcome the issues we had (PCOS, hypothyroid, short luteal phase and low sperm count.)

And that's where we were a year ago.

[xekomaya]

I had just quit my old job and was getting ready to start my new one June 19th. I still found excuses to wear suits most every day even though my new job didn't need them. I *love* a good suit. Transitioning to "mom clothes" has been very hard for me.

DH's birthday is today, as it was last year Last year we actually had a romantic night in, whereas tonight he came home and fell asleep without dinner

We were renovating our house ourselves and putting in crazy weekends and nights of work .. We had stopped using all the rules of FAM, just the ones we liked, but still thought it would take us until Sept/Oct. or later to conceive.

I had just realized that I had some crazy food sensitivities and had begun an elimination diet.

I seriously can't believe its been a year already. I know this is supposed to be fun but it makes me want to cry thinking of how dramatically my life has changed. When I look at those gorgeous little legs and adorable diapered butt laying next to me, of course I wouldn't change a thing. But I feel like I never got a chance to say goodbye to my old life.. wow..

[chely7425]

A year ago today...
- I was a size 2 and 125 pounds (and very NOT healthy)
- I hadn't even MET my husband (that didn't happen till July 14th, 6 days before we conceived Trevor :P)
- I had just graduated from college
- I was still driving my jeep... the very first car I ever bought on my own!

[Amandamanda]

this time last year i went on the pill LOL. (seriously- i started it my june cycle lol)

[ORLY?]

Originally Posted by Amandamanda

this time last year i went on the pill LOL. (seriously- i started it my june cycle lol)

[ltk]

This time last year.....
we had just celebrated DD's 1st birthday, and taken a drive up the Pacific Coast for a week (LA to Portland). I was kicking ass at work and just got a promotion. I had lost 50 lbs and was 20 below my pre pregnancy weight (from first baby). I was shopping, rocking my high heels and planning a trip to mexico with about 5 beautiful gay men and no hubby!!! got pregnant right before that trip!!! was not quite ready psychologically, but thought it would be easier the second time around! (not)

[limabean]

This time last year, I was missing a family trip to Colorado to stay home with my sick dog, who had to have surgery for bowel obstruction. DS was 2.5yo and I was worried about him going on vacation with just DH and not me, but he did great! And the dog did great too -- she's sleeping peacefully at my feet right now.

[oyinmama]

this time last year... we had just TTC in may for the first (and we thought, only) time and i was waiting for it to be time to take the test. we wanted an aquarius, LOL - and it was 08 or bust

we had just decided not to rent an apartment around the corner from our home to move our home biz into, and were researching ways to expand the capacities of our home to eke out another year or so.

i was slowly moving from a size 4-6 to a size 6-8, and was mad about it! i was 5'8" and weighed about 140 lbs. i hadn't been to a dance class in about 6 months. i was coveting an electric-assist bicycle SO BAD.

[amaayeh]

This time last year I was a size 4, 130 lbs and running 4 miles a day 5 days a week. I was in the best shape I had been in years. We were trying to decide when we would ttc, whether it be July, August or September. I was silly enough to think one kid was hard.

[spookymama]

This time last year.. we had just started TTC. We were gearing up for my sons first birthday and my 27th. I would find out a few days after that that I was pregnant, but that pregnancy would end shortly after I did.

We realized how bad we wanted another baby.

I was in slightly better shape.. but more than that.. I also had 2-3 feet more of my hair.

[Meche]

This time last year, we were on vacation and I was experiencing my third miscarriage. It was so early that it was just like a period, but the week before I had a +hpt, so we were planning on telling family while we were visiting Cali. Instead, I started bleeding on the drive there.

This time two years ago, I think I was pregnant then too. Miscarried in August.

I am so grateful that this one stuck and now we have baby Christian!

[Organicavocado]

This time last year I was still mourning my miscarriage. We decided this month last year to stop TTC after two years. My next cycle was scheduled to be annovulatory so I put off buying condoms etc., well. LOL I hated when people would say "When you stop trying, it will happen"...

[swiesz]

this time last year we were getting ready to move to our new home at the end of june and i was enjoying my first summer in almost 5 years without a baby in me or attached to me after my m/c in feb
i was about 140lbs and a size 8 which all of my clothes (that now sit in a pile in my room ) all fit

[fireshifter]

A year ago, I had just moved to CA from the midwest and was expecting to get a lucrative job offer to work off debt while we lived with my parents and DH went to school. I didn't get the job. Over the next 10 months, I applied at over 150 jobs and still am unemployed. I guess God has His reasons, I just didn't understand them.

Jen D.

[sparkly]

a year ago...I was preparing for our wedding June 30, and sewing my lovely wedding dress with a 24" waist that I fear I will never be able to wear again! I haven't pulled it out of the closet yet to see if I'm close to fitting into it. (It's a 1950s style party dress, so the plan was to wear it for other events).

Oh, and we thought it was inconvenient and tiring to be woken up at 4 a.m. every morning by the two cats, who would fight, on our bed, without fail. It put a damper in my 8-solid-hours-a-night schedule.