I THINK I surged yesterday. The pink line SEEMED to be darker both that morning when I used a stick and that night when I tried again. I even think it was pretty much the same shade of pink as the control line. And today, there was the telltale CM so I'm thinking that I'm ovulating as I write (day 19). Since we last had sex late at night on day 16, I'd say I gave myself a two to three day window between sex and ovulation — pretty much what I wanted.

I got a smiley face! My kit told me yesterday morning that I'd ovulate within the next 24 to 36 hours! This is day 15 of my cycle and I'm pleased to note that this is about when I thought I ovulated in past months based on my CM and basal temperature charting. Now, I know getting pregnant is hard — and can take a while — even when you have sex exactly when you're ovulating, but I'm still very happy to have confirmation that my body seems to know how to do it.

Okay, now here's a confession: We're not going to have sex tonight or tomorrow. The reason for this, even though I know it's not politically correct to say, is that I'm not-so-secretly hoping for a girl. It's not AT ALL that I don't want a boy eventually. I do! I would love to have both a boy and a girl. And really, I want a healthy baby, above all else, of course. But if I'm honest with myself, I think that having a girl first would be a little easier for me. I was a little girl at one time, after all, and I just feel like I could relate to a little girl a tiny bit better than a little boy — at least during my first crack at parenting. (I'm thinking dolls and tea parties are a little more up my alley right now than trucks and basketball — pardon the stereotypes.)