I always tidy up the flat before hand too and usually light a candle for him in the bathroom...
It is definately an interesting way to make a baby, but it will be worth it.
Our donor is a good friend, he has known my wife since childhood. We had thought about using someone we didn't know but that seemed too weird for us. Plus we had always talked about having kids and what not with him and eventually we might even help him as surrogates. Then our kids could be related and grow up together.
I get kind of worried about what will happen when they start asking questions. Since we don't want to lie to them and plan on being very upfront about the whole thing. But our donor friend doesn't want to be responsible for them in a parental way so it could be kind of strange. I can just see them as teenagers threatening to run off to their dad's. We already went over it with him and he agreed that in a situation like that he would be more than happy to talk to them and what not but he is not their dad so to speak.
This cycle was our first time using Conceive Plus as well...we had used Pre Seed before. I found that the Conceive Plus was a lot less slippery. But in both cases I used way less than they recommend on the bottle. I only use about 1ml of the lube instead of the 4 that Pre Seed says. I found it was just way to much and I ended up with a lot more spillage and what not. EWWW!
