We started 2020 off with a bang in the Rolleston household. We have finally saved enough to buy a house, and have started trying to have a baby with the help of the great doctors at Cleveland Clinic. The restaurant is also closer than ever, with permits being submitted to the city and timelines finally being put in stone. Driving has been easier for me and I have even taken my first solo highway trip to go grocery shopping.
All in all, things are getting busy. They are also getting a little stressful. Speaking with a mortgage broker was actually way less scary then people have told us it could be. But I really think that’s because we choose to wait and save for long time, pay off bills and credit cards and making sure our credit scores and debt to income ratio were where they needed to be. We went to an open house this past Sunday and are totally stoked to be in this position. We have longed for more room, and a yard and as we call it, a nice retirement home for the boys. We start officially looking with our realtor this Friday.
The baby thing is probably the most annoying issue we have going on. It’s been over a year of us trying to get pregnant with no result (bummer). So now we’ve begun talking to an infertility doctor and have scheduled our first round of preliminary tests. Unfortunately these tests are already expensive and we don’t know how far down this path we can afford to go. But the first test I’m getting done, (which is $1,868) is called an HSG and its to map my cervix and fallopian tubes to make sure there are no blockages or polyps. A bonus of this test is it has an increased fertility affect, so the doctor says he will let us go try for 3 months after the test and just hope that’s enough for us to get pregnant.
So this first month of 2020 has been a little bit of a doozy. But I think that’s a good thing. A hard thing maybe, and a new thing. But still good.