January 31, 2011 Low-Carb Menu

9:00AM
4 organic, soy-free, coconut fed eggs cooked in 2 Tbs coconut oil

1:45PM
1 pound grass-fed ground beef cooked in 2 Tbs coconut oil with sea salt, freshly ground pepper, and granulated garlic

7:15PM
100-minute competitive volleyball

NOTE: Christine and I have decided to try to have a baby one more time thanks to the generosity of my sister-in-law Jennifer. As many of you know, we are not able to biologically have children of our own because of problems with both of us. We discovered how severe this was in December 2007 after a failed in-vitro fertilization (IVF) attempt. We're in our 16th year of marriage and would love to desperately have a child to call our own--and Christine's sister Jennifer knows that. She had a beautiful baby girl a couple of years ago and had some money from her husband's death last year that she wanted to use to pay for us to do something called embryo adoption. For anyone who has gone through IVF, there are sometimes LOTS of eggs produced by the woman which are then fertilized with sperm and allowed to grow for 3-5 days before being frozen. The woman can then have these available to her if she decides to have a baby in the future or she can give these embryos up for adoption for people who cannot have children--like us! The way it works is we see a reproductive endocrinologist (the same one who did the IVF) who will check out Christine to see if she's able to carry a baby. After a series of "stuff" (too much to really go into detail about), they implant the embryo to hope it begins growing a baby inside of her. We'd covet your prayers through this process and we've already decided this is our final attempt to have a baby. I'd love to see Christine pregnant and go through the birthing process...she'd be a fabulous mom! We are excited about the prospect of what is gonna happen over the next few months.