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Trying To Conceive

TTC Cycle 5

Now that I’m 10 days into cycle 6, I just realized I never posted my cycle 5 chart. Clearly it wasn’t too exciting. I also discovered I had a {let’s just say a not-so-fun TMI} infection at the end of that cycle. I’m better now thanks to antibiotics!
But I digress. We connected & are still having fun trying at least! Being out of town one weekend together (but with a lot of family) then the following two weekends apart made this cycle tough. I was actually at the beach with my work girls the last weekend. I peed on a stick on 7 DPO ~ it was negative. I knew that was early to test, but I was off to the beach with my work girls & still planning to drink it up so I thought I’d check. I drank & had a great time! When my temps dropped on that Sunday morning, I knew my period was coming & this cycle was a bust.No real travel or vacations planned during this cycle so maybe that’ll help. Oh & when I went to the gyno last week, I mentioned charting & my short LPs. She wasn’t so concerned with that, but did recommend we have sex more often! She said every other day starting around day 10 & keeping that up til CD 20! Jason starts his new round-the-clock work schedule next week, so we’ll see how those two things will go together! Guess we’ll see! Here’s hoping for a end of Apr or beginning of May ’11 baby!

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Food

Easy Dinners

We’ve been trying to cook & eat in more recently. We haven’t always succeeded (we got take out from Manchesters tonight~ so good!), but Jason loved our dinner Tuesday night so I thought I’d share. Husband actually said it was in the top three meals I’d made (along with jar spaghetti with Trader Joe’s meatballs & Shannon’s Chicken~ he’s not high maintainence with food!).

Wondering what I made?! {This is almost embrassing!} I got the idea from the back of the Shake N Bake Barbecue Glaze box~ add 3 tbsp brown sugar & 1/2 tsp ground red pepper (cayenne) to the Shake N Bake mix. I used Target boneless, skinless breats. I served it with Kraft from the box MacNCheese & frozen Green Giant veggies. I have to admit, the chicken was REALLY good! The brown sugar gave a little sweetness while the cayenne pepper added quite a kick! Jason, who doesn’t do leftovers, actually had the third breast yesterday for lunch. I meant to take a photo to share, but we ate it too quick!
So if you’re looking for a quick, VERY easy chicken dish, try it!

My mom also gave me an easy recipe when I was home that my aunt made for them at the beach. It’s just a few mostly on hand ingredients & vegetarian. I hope to try it soon!

Black Bean Pasta
Ingredients
pasta
2 cans black beans, drained
1 can Rotel tomatoes
green pepper & onion, chopped
green olives, sliced
bay leaf, oregano, garlic salt, or other spices of your choice to your taste
2 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp vinegar
Directions
Bring all ingredients to a boil then simmer for 30 minutes. Serve over your favorite al dente pasta.

What’s your go-to EASY meal?