As of yesterday, I am off of the pill!  I want to wait a month or two though to get it out of my system before we start trying.  I also want to see what day I ovulate and plan to get a thermometor to check my basal temperature.  I have been on the pill since I was 15 but before then I had a very regular cycle so I hope it is easy to track.  We still have quite a bit of saving to do too so hopefully in a month we will have made progress there too!!   

I am so happy that I recently received a promotion to Leasing/Marketing Manager for SC Properties for my company!!!  I enjoy this aspect of our industry the most and look forward to helping to make the communitues in my area a great success!

A few months ago I noticed that I was "under the microscope" more than I had ever been in my career.  All praise be to God, I have been very successful in the past and was accostomed to receiving company-wide awards for my performance but at this point I was being scrutanized for little tee niny things that I had not ever been addressed with before! 

Our Community Manager and Regional Manager have since left the company and now my coworkers are coming forward saying that is was because I wanted to have children.  According to them she was quoted as saying that pregnant women are "not pretty" and that I would not be as effective as a Leasing Professional/Leasing Manager when I am pregnant!  Pregnancy-related discrimination is so hard to prove!  Granted I am not yet pregnant or even trying to conceive, I was only asking questions about the FMLA and personal/sick time!  I sincerely hope that no other woman/women have to go through this! 

I am so happy that this particular person is no longer with our company.  In fact, it is my belief that being a mother can make you a better manager!   I cannot wait to prove her wrong!!!

I seem to continuously go throuh phases of really wanting to  start our family NOW and wanting to wait until the end of summer-which is only 4 months away!  Right now I am getting choked up watching TLC's A Baby Story and Bringing Home Baby and baby commercials in general, etc! 

It is sooo hard to fight these hormones-and I am only 23!!!  I just love Brad sooo much and after almost 9 years of it being "just us", I feel ready to start expanding our  family!  It is heartbreaking to know it is not logical yet though!  We are saving for my maternity leave, have picked the room in our house to be the nursery and themes for if it is a boy or a girl , picked names and I am taking my prenatal vitamins!  I just really want to go off of the pill now and then wait 2 months and start trying!  Brad is not ready though!!  It all freaks him out right now! 

I enjoy my career and, God willing,  plan to continue it through my last trimester!  Brad is such a wonderful husband and I know he will make a great father and wil help me all he can!  This is all for now, just going through one of my hormonal rants!!!! 

My name is Katie Spillers, my husband's name is Brad and this is our first entry!  We are in the planning phase and hope to be pregnant by the end of this year .  Our careers are too hectic right now so we are saving up for my maternity leave!  We do not live in the same town (or state in some cases) as our family and hope to use this journal as a tool to keep them informed as to our progress! 

We are Christians and also trust that their prayers will sustain us in the meantime as it is difficult to wait until closer to the end of the year to start trying!!  We pretty much have names picked out already though...Ava Kathryn for a girl and Liam Alden for a boy : )  I am taking prenatal vitamins and although I have always worked out, I am making sure my body is in especially great shape!  I will keep this updated as to our saving progress and our feelings on starting our family in the coming months!  God Bless!  Until next time....