After waiting to ovulate, two extremely looooooong weeks of waiting to see if a bambino is on its way commence, and the waiting can be a bit of a pain where the sun doesn’t shine.  I pass the time by singing the Fetus Song from FRIENDS as performed by the one and only Phoebe Buffay: “Are you in there little fetus? In nine months will you come greet us?  I will buy you some Adidas.”

While there’s no recipe to make the TWW completely painless, I’ve been on a mission to use my waiting time well.   I don’t want to dread every TWW and spend my time caught up in a hunt for real or imagined symptoms.  What better way to take the focus off myself than to put it on someone else?

With that in mind, I came up with the idea of the TWW Project.  There are only three rules:

1.  The project has to benefit someone other than Mr. Blue or me.

2.  The project can be several small tasks or one bigger project.

3.  The project must be for good, i.e., kind, thoughtful, charitable, or helpful.

Basically, each TWW project has to be somehow making the world a little brighter for at least one person outside our household. I have no idea how many cycles of TTC are ahead of me, but here are some of my ideas for my TWW Projects:

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– Take a basket of baked goods to our neighbors.
– Write and mail notes to random people in my life expressing encouragement and appreciation for them.
– Complete the application and interview process to be mentors at our local children’s home.  Start planning mentoring activities and visits.
– Buy some stuffed animals to donate to the children’s hospital.
– Crochet scarves for the homeless for next winter.
– Pay for another table’s check when we go out to eat.
– Babysit for a friend so they can have a night out.
– Volunteer at our church to help set up and greet people on Sunday morning.

I’m hoping that some of my fellow TTC-ers will be inclined to join me with their own TWW Projects.  Even if we all did only a small thing each TWW, we could make our world a little brighter one kind act at a time.  And, really, isn’t that what we all want?  We want our future babies to come into a world where people help one another even when they don’t “deserve” it, where they can expect kindness from others, where they are encouraged to give of themselves to those who are less fortunate. That’s a world I can get behind!

What do you think would make a good TWW project?  Any TTC-ers want to join me?