Clover

36 year old mother of three who hopes to find her waistline and her identity again.

Hi all- I am Clover, or the Blogger Formerly Known As Leggy (BFKAL) but I got tired of the Internet pervs. I am 36 years old and have been married to a wonderful guy (herein referred to as "The Man") for 10+ years. The Man and I have three children- "The Cutie Pie" is 7 and now we have the Wonder Twins= Mr. Chips and Miss Daisy. They are a joy, even when they are not. Oh, and my mom recently moved in with us. Yeah, life is crazy. Come along for the ride.

The Cutie Pie was an IVF baby. We were incredibly lucky to succeed in our first real attempt. Three subsequent attempts were total frickin' disasters- miscarried twins the 2nd time, third time around the embryos went bust, and then I miscarried again in January 2006. Try #5 was a keeper and the Wonder Twins arrived in July 2007. The Baby Factory is now officially closed.

I was a part-time telecommuter, but now I'm a full-time stay-at-home mom who tries to function on very little sleep and too much caffeine.

I have a pretty small extended family- its mainly my mom and my inlaws. The 90's pretty much wiped out the rest of my family.

I am Catholic by birth, although my parents were lax, to say the least. I love the faith, traditions, music and ritual of the Catholic Church but am tired of the guilt trips and the misogyny. This has been a real stress for me as I take comfort in my faith during the rough times. Yet when I go to church I would just like to be uplifted every once in a while, not berated. Am thinking seriously of becoming Protestant, but then I wouldn't be an Irish Catholic anymore and that would cause an identity crisis.

I grew up in the Northeast and went to college in the Deep South. When I was growing up in the Northeast, I felt conservative. When I was in college in the Deep South, I felt like a flaming liberal.

So I guess that makes me middle of the road. In general I am more liberal on social issues, more conservative on fiscal issues. In reality, I mostly vote for the Democrats, because lately the Republicans can't convince me that they are really all that conservative on fiscal issues (does anyone remember the surplus)?

Now that life doesn't revolve around infertility, secondary infertility, and how to have another baby, I'm exploring other topics in my brain and hope to start actually transcribing those onto my weblog- trying to reduce my family's impact on the environment, wondering what kind of country/world we are leaving our children, and figuring out how to get back in the "work for pay" game while juggling life with a busy, too-stressed husband, two infants and a 7-going-on-14 year old, and an aging, ill parent.