Blissfully Hopeful

Well....after spending every waking second looking for any possible symptom of pregnancy, I finally found one late last night. Yay!!!! I have breast tenderness!  Not much to hang my hat on, I know, but I was getting a little desperate....and really just trying to find even the slightest *hint* of something different this month that would give me something to hope for. So, ha...I am going to be looney. I don't care if I am disappointed later, all that I know is that right now I am hopeful, happy, and excited. (check back with me @ May 19th and see if I still feel the same way!  ) I do not usually have soreness around AF, but I will admit that there have been months when I have had breast tenderness right before AF. I also have had mild *cramping* sensations for the last two nights in a row. Cramping is not really a good word for the way this feels, it is more like a dull tension in my lower abdomen, a sensation that I sometimes feel hours before AF arrives. (and AF is not due for 7-8 more days...so she would be very early this month if she comes today.) DH, after having a major fit about it, decided to do the at-home-semen-analysis after work, and then run it to one of the Federal Express drop boxes before pick up (that is what the directions say to do.) We should receive the results in a bout a week. But probably not before our first RE appointment next Tuesday. (Which is also my predetermined early test day!) I am testing on 14 DPO (the day of or the day before AF is due). I know it is early and that I will most likely get a negative result, but I wanted to test before the RE appointment just in case it is positive... On another *positive* note (excuse the pun), I think I may have noticed a little improvement in our Dalmatian's motor control of his right side. He goes back to Michigan tomorrow for a re-evaluation and to have his 30 staples removed. We just keep loving him and praying for a full recovery. He is our FIRST *baby*.