Hi Callie. Good luck at court. Hopefully everything works out.
As for temping, I first tried it after my ectopic because my cycles were so wonky. It sure helps. I am pretty good at it now, and I do feel that I am in control of things since I usually know what's going on.
I think I am going to start temping if Dave stays working in town. How long did it take you to see that your charts where looking the same and being able to know when you ovulate?
There are a couple useful things I've learned. One of the most useful is this: If you have the luck of being able to spot your Ovulation day a couple of times through temps, OPKs, and watching other fertility signs, you can calculate with 100% accuracy when you have ovulated in any cycle because of this principle: Your luteal phase is always the same. (for over 99% of women it's 14 days +/- 1 as I've said a couple times here.) So, if you discover your luteal phase is 14 days (which is what is the statistical liklihood) you can always discover by counting back when you actually ovulated.
How is this information useful? Well there's this: if you keep careful track of your temps, your CM, you cervical position, and other symptoms (such as breast tenderness, cramps etc.) and by keeping careful notes, you can start to see the constellation of signs that will (likely) almost always cluster for you to let you know you're ovulating. I discovered a couple of key signs in this way. For me: My Breast pain begins on the day I ovulate and worsens any time my temp and progesterone rise. on my chart, you can actually see my breast pain worsening as my temp goes up. I don't know if this is true for others, but, it is useful for me. I can even feel at around 1 week past ovulation the estrogen surge. This will be the only day or two that my breast pain subsides, because the estrogen has interfered with the progesterone's action.
For me, paying attention to my breast tenderness is a very clear sign of my ovulation. For you, it may be cramps (as it is for many women.)
On top of this, I have begun to see a larger pattern appear with my cycles. This cycle I'm having is going long, and I knew chances were very high that I would have a 28-29 day cycle. I even warned my DH about it so he could be prepared. The reason I knew this is because I have 30 cycles in Fertility friend. Not all of them have temps, but I have always kept track of my cycle dates. Now as I mentioned, if all you know are your historical cycle lengths, this information is enough to calculate your ovulation date with pretty much 100% accuracy. I only have 10 cycles of temps, from various months. Anyway I'm off track. What I was going to say is: because I have 30 cycles in fertility friend, I am able to see a VERY distinct pattern of short-short-short-long (it's not quite that perfect but pretty close.) My cycle actually averages 28 days even though 18/30 cycles I have had a 26 day length.
All this information can seem superfluous at first, but it really is useful, as I was able to predict this cycle would go long.
The final benefit of temping is that you have the control of knowing when you've ovulated. This is a great relief. No more will I wonder if I'm pregnant just because I'm having a long cycle. I always know I'm going to have a 29 day cycle the day after I ovulate. This reduces stress (obviously) and allows me to stop BD'g and also testing at the right times.
I can't recommend it enough. It's knowledge, control, engagement and awareness. These are all things we struggle for when ttc, temping is probably the best and cheapes tool to achieve these things.
Let me know if you'd like help! YOU TOO ANDI!!!!
Will test towards the end of the month (June 30th to be safe)!
snap then! lol. Ive had 2 positive OPK and they say you ovulate 24-72 hours after the positive,, so im hoping i have... sooo the wait begins! Really need to keep myself busy.... 
