Welcome - the start of a long journey.....

Hi ya!! Firstly let me introduce myself, my name is Catherine and I am 31. I live in Lancashire UK with my wife Helen who is 33. We've been together for 8 years now and Civil Partnered for 3 of them. For a while now we've talked about kids but put it off for one reason or another. But this year we thought life's to short and decided to crack on! So far we've spoke to two chaps who have offered to be donors for us. One unfortunalty was too far away but he was lovely and we were extremely grateful that he offered his services to us. The second chap is a little closer and fingers crossed we are meeting him this week. We've been emailing back and forwarded for about 3 weeks and seen various photos of him and this weekend we are meeting up. I am quite nervous to be meeting him as I am not sure what I should be asking him!!! I know most things about him so I suppose it's just to see what his personally is like?? We decided to also join the free sperm donor site web site just so all our eggs are not in one basket. We have been reading various sites online and visited a friend whose tried and tested methods have worked for them and two other couples! After visiting them we have ordered ovulation kits, basal thermometer, sample pots, 5ml syringes and some conceive plus gel stuff! We hope to monitor Helen's ovulation over the next 2 months then inseminate on the 4 days around it for the first months then 3 days the month after. Her cycle is regular and always has been so ovulation should be easy to plot. Well we hope so!! I'll sign off for now Catherine x