Spotting?

So today is the day my cycle should have started.  I guess.  I've had some very low-grade cramping all week, and this morning I went to the bathroom and there was pink spotting.  Not only do I not know what is going on, I don't have any idea what to do.  Go to the doctor?  Email a doctor (I don't know who - my regular OBGYN?  One of the fertility clinic doctors?).  Or is it just the last vestiges of my period working their way out and I shouldn't worry at all?

For the record, I have gone twice this morning, both times including BMs (sorry, TMI?) and I'm feeling much less like I'm having my period, and the spotting stopped the second time.  Back when my periods were more normal, I often had a final "push" on day 5 or 6, sometimes to the point of bleeding through ALL of my protection and clothes, and then my period would abruptly stop.  So I'm thinking that's what's happening.  I grew up in a household where my mom was a serious hypochondriac who projected it onto her children, and took us to the doctor whenever we mentioned any possible ailment, certain that we had cancer.  Now that I'm an adult, I really have no good concept of what warrants being seen by a doctor.

In other news.  My husband and I bought a Karlstad couch.  It's HUGE and we love it.  we bought the 3+2 and added on a chaise, which I thought meant converting one of the sections into a chaise.  I didn't realize it involved adding on another whole piece, but luckily it fits perfectly in our family room and now we can fit both of our extended families quite comfortably on one piece of furniture.

We tried out our dog run for the first time last night when we went to dinner, and the dogs seem to really like it.  I'm so relieved.  Our dogs can be incredibly destructive, so we can't really leave them alone unless they're in crates, and since I don't like leaving them in their crates a lot, we tend to just not go anywhere.  Now they have a nice big dog run outside, and have space to play and relax, and they can be together.  It's so much better, and as soon as we get a dog house for them, I'll feel a lot better about going out to dinner or running errands and doing fun stuff on the weekends.