We are swimming!

And in the latest breaking news...
Our first little swimmers are on ice :-) This week my lovely wonderful brave incredible generous donor and I made our first deposit to the sperm bank... and our first concrete step on the road to motherhood.
The excitement is like meeting someone you think you might kind-of like...you know... its like a little buzz in the tummy... a smile in reflective moments... a hopeful happiness about what the future holds... a cheerful optimistic tint to the light of the day...a gentle tickly feeling of anticipation...a tantalising whiff of the potential joy that might lie ahead...
The experience on the day was of course totally bizarre, exhilerating and excruciating at the same time. I have a deep respect for my lovely donor who managed to hold it together in the face of little sleep and high performance anxiety... to cope with blunt no-holds barred announcements by the first receptionist we met on arrival ("oh hello darling...you are the donor right?...have you got your semen with you or will you be producing it here??) and a perhaps new (?) lab receptionist who turned beetroot everytime she had to speak to him...
He was slightly disappointed that the all white "production room" had not a magazine or inspirational decoration in sight... but still managed to come through with the goods and earn a brighter hero status in my eyes than ever... :-)
And we then bit our collective nails til the analysis results the next day...
and YAY... we have happy swimmers :-)
Healthy, mobile, populous and willing... our little friends are primed and ready.

So... he is currently in the wilds of the Himalayas... and I am very much hoping that our boys are being kept warm and softly cushioned :-) Was chatting with my friend Kim about the idea of a new range of donor wear - to hang alongside maternity wear in the most fashionable of boutiques... little fur lined codpieces... quilted boxers... gold trimmed treasure boxes :-) He He... humorous visualisation value makes up for total lack of commercial viability :-)

So now I have drafted up the contractual agreement and emailed it to him... dotting of i's and crossing of t's along with the fingers...

And now I wait... 2.5 months and ticking.... ah well, that ticking tocking biological clock is a familiar sound... I can hold my breath a little longer...

:-)