Canning

So I am officially in the 2ww. I think there is something wrong with my thermometer (again). My temperatures are just really strange. Especially after getting 3 positive OPKS (the middle one being darker than the control line), and my CM matching the OPKs. So now I am not sure what it is doing but what's done is done! Hopefully my chart will become a bit clearer in the coming days.

On another note, my dad and I did some canning yesterday and made Beet Relish!

Celiac Disease

I was just diagnosed with Celiac Disease (there is info about it in the page at the top). It is said to cause miscarriages. I am really hoping that this time around that won't happen to me after being on a gluten-free diet.  Yesterday was my first day of gluten free, and I was doing really well until I accidently ate a Timbit without even thinking about it. Shoot. So trying again today. Bought a really good GF cereal called Gorilla Munch:

Other than that, recipes have been kind of tough because I know for the first little while I have to check EVERYTHING with my little list of no-no ingredients. Which include:

Abyssinian Hard (Wheat triticum durum)
Alcohol (Spirits - Specific Types)
Amp-Isostearoyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Atta Flour
Barley Grass (can contain seeds)
Barley Hordeum vulgare
Barley Malt
Beer (most contain barley or wheat)
Bleached Flour
Bran
bread Flour
Brewer's Yeast
Brown Flour
Bulgur (Bulgar Wheat/Nuts)
Bulgur Wheat
Cereal Binding
Chilton
Club Wheat (Triticum aestivum subspecies compactum)
Common Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
cookie Crumbs
Cookie Dough
Cookie Dough Pieces
Couscous
Criped Rice
Dinkle (Spelt)
Disodium Wheatgermamido Peg-2 Sulfosuccinate
Durum wheat (Triticum durum)
Edible Coatings
Edible Films
Edible Starch
Einkorn (Triticum monococcum)
Emmer (Triticum dicoccon)
Enriched Bleached Flour
Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour
Enriched Flour
Farina
Farina Graham
Farro
Filler
Flour (normally this is wheat)
Fu (dried wheat gluten)
Germ
Graham Flour
Granary Flour
Groats (barley, wheat)
Hard Wheat
Heeng
Hing
Hordeum Vulgare Extract
Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten
Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein Pg-Propyl Silanetriol
Hydrolyzed Wheat Starch
Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Kamut (pasta wheat)
Kecap Manis (Soy Sauce)
Ketjap Manis (Soy Sauce)
Kluski Pasta
Maida (Indian wheat flour)
Malt
Malted Barley Flour
Malted Milk
Malt Extract
Malt Syrup
Malt Flavoring
Malt Vinegar
Macha Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
Matza
Matzah
Matzo
Matzo Semolina
Meringue
Meripro 711
Mir
Nishasta
Oriental Wheat (Triticum turanicum)
Orzo Pasta
Pasta
Pearl Barley
Persian Wheat (Triticum carthlicum)
Perungayam
Poulard Wheat (Triticum turgidum)
Polish Wheat (Triticum polonicum)
Rice Malt (if barley or Koji are used)
Roux
Rusk
Rye
Seitan
Semolina
Semolina Triticum
Shot Wheat (Triticum aestivum) 
Small Spelt
Spirits (Specific Types)
Spelt (Triticum spelta)
Sprouted Wheat or Barley
Stearyldimoniumhydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Strong Flour
Suet in Packets
Tabbouleh
Tabouli
Teriyaki Sauce
Timopheevi Wheat (Triticum timopheevii)
Triticale X triticosecale
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Flour Lipids
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Extract
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Oil
Udon (wheat noodles)
Unbleached Flour
Vavilovi Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
Vital Wheat Gluten
Wheat, Abyssinian Hard triticum durum
Wheat amino acids
Wheat Bran Extract
Wheat, Bulgur
Wheat Durum Triticum
Wheat Germ Extract
Wheat Germ Glycerides
Wheat Germ Oil
Wheat Germamidopropyldimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Wheat Grass (can contain seeds)
Wheat Nuts
Wheat Protein
Wheat Triticum aestivum
Wheat Triticum Monococcum
Wheat (Triticum Vulgare) Bran Extract
Whole-meal Flour
Wild Einkorn (Triticum boeotictim)
Wild Emmer (Triticum dicoccoides)

So yeah, it is a lot to look out for! Plus my office ordered pizza yesterday and that was really hard! I had to eat my rice. But I think I will get used to it. It will be SO worth it if it gets me a take-home baby.

As for TTC, I am on CD11, and my temp finally changed today to 97.1. At least I know the thermometer is working! So we are coming up to FWP week and I am hoping that goes well too. We move on Friday so I am not sure how it will work out.  My good friend Nykesha sent me all of her old OPKs, which I am really excited about! I will try those out this weekend. 

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

My first post!

Hello blog world! As of now, I have zero followers so this is more of a journal! haha. I added a section "About Me" if you want to check that out! I am really hoping to get pregnant and have a 2012 take home baby.  TTC after a loss is tough business, and pretty scary at times.  Here's to hoping (praying) that I do get KU quickly and this time the outcome is much better. I am currently on CD7 and am using a BBT temperature to chart (it is linked on the right-hand side of this blog).  I am using OPKs as well, and I hope it will help us get our baby.

DH and I got a puppy a few months ago and I am totally in love! He is the cutest little husky and is getting super big very fast! I have loved having a running partner and someone to snuggle all night. He enjoys watching me do my all-time favourite hobby: reading!

When he was a tiny puppy, he looked like this:

At 3-4 months old he looked like this:

Now at 5 months:

He is going to be a big dog I think! We named him Ralph Lauren because that is DH's favourite designer. Haha. He is the cutest!