Clearly I Lied...

A few post ago when I said I wouldn't chart. I'm five days in and honestly it is kind of fun building this graph. Then again I've always had fun making charts and such. I am using a hand iPhone/iPad app that allows me to put in my information and it graphs everything for me so the error margin is hopefully less.

My reasoning for starting this is our time frame. My career is blossoming and if I want to be in a leadership role next year then I'd rather not have to take off for maternity leave. We're going to attempt to aim for a specific window of time but granted of that doesn't happen then so be it. I'd prefer that if we get pregnant that the baby would be due during the tail end of the school year but more so summer. However with our school calendar that leaves just July. If we can have her early July then six weeks later school starts up. Perfect! But our second best timing would be mid to late June. I have a co-teacher so relatively things would be okay once she is there. However I'd rather not have to be out during the school year at all. So our months would be...

-Conception in September and born in June
-Conception in October and born in July

Therefore that gives me 6 months to chart and get the timing just right.

If we miss that set then our next plan would be March and birth in November. After that... I'm throwing the plans out the window and I'll say when it happens it happens. My lesson so far in life has been patience so hopefully God sees these next 6 months of preparation as planning with extreme patience. ;)

I know some people will say I am a fool for planning a time frame and that its putting too much pressure on myself but honestly if it didn't fall in one of those months then I'd feel extreme personal guilt from leaving my kiddos mid-year for 6 weeks. Plus it's not the end of the world if we don't meet the two time frames because after that it's whatever.

I just know that a huge change like that is tough on 4 year olds and I don't want to put them through that if I can help it. They are not my kids but at the same time they are very much my kids.

So anyways, once my first month chart is done I'll post a screen cap on here in case anyone spots something I don't.

I'm off to bed before our busy Friday starts. Goodnight :)