Valentine’s Day

It’s Valentine’s Day and we are feelin’ the love!

Basic Rights Oregon did a commercial with us in it last summer. Of the many couples filmed and interviewed, we were picked by the focus groups as one of a few that pulled the most at heart strings. As the Marriage Matters campaign grows, that commercial has gone national, today, our national day of love. Gina was on the local news channels last night, it’s been aired on CNN this morning, and we are on the front cover of Oregonlive! this afternoon. We are so honored to be making a difference.

We hope that someday our kids will look back and know that during a time when we were working so hard to bring them into this world, we were also working to make a difference in our civil rights; our rights, as partners and mothers, to legally marry.

This is the link to an Associated Press story that was picked up by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The Advocate also did their thing. Towleroad blog and qpdx blog also had their say.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

We have our second IVF class tonight where Gina will learn how to give Regina injections for the next two weeks. Can you think of anything more romantic?

We were instructed to watch some videos first. Wanna see? If you click on that link, you’ll see a list of medicines on the left column. We are focusing on the FOllistim Pen with Follistim AQ Cartridge and the Menopur 75 IU. We are also learning about the Progesterone in Oil Injection and the hCG or Novarel.

I’ve made a Valentine’s Day Love Playlist of music for Gina. Since we are ultra budget conscious these days, I thought putting together a CD of love songs would be a sweet way to go. Maybe someday we’ll dance and sing to that Valentine’s Day playlist with our babe.

I keep dreaming.