packing and eating
I wrote yesterday, but again my stupid computer crashed and I lost everything. Oh well, I don't even remember what I wrote...it must not have been too important.The weather here has finally cooled off a bit. We mowed the front lawn yesterday. It was the first time in about a month...I am sure our neighbors were very happy about this. Maybe tomorrow morning, I will re-tackle the back yard. It's not as bad. I feel bad fro jerry because he's working so hard. I know he doesn't like me working outside in the heat, but I drink lots of water and take lots of breaks.
Today, I am tackling the china cabinet. Hopefully I can get it all pack today. The nice thing about having an extra month to pack is the fact that we will definitely be ready for the movers when they arrive!!!
I am a bit bummed that we may be moving during Warren Wilson College's homecoming. Jerry and I both attended here and we like to try to make it up there for homecoming. But I guess it will be okay. If we move in the middle of the week, we may still make it up. We'll see.
I can't believe that I haven't gone home this whole summer. This is not normal. But this summer has been rather crazy with the pregnancy and the building of the house and what not.
Jerry says I'm not eating enough protein and that's why I'm always hungry. But I really just can't stand meat right now. I did eat a small piece of turkey last night. I've been eating cottage cheese for snacks...and don't get me started on tofu texture.
But since the turkey was okay, I'll try some more today. Sigh...who knew I was going to have to eat all this stuff. Though I guess I am growing another human being. Still I look at some of these pregnancy diets and I can't imagine eating as much food as they say you should eat. It's a bit stressful, so I have stopped looking at those. I take a multi-vitamin and a calcium supplement and I eat six small meals a day. I have stayed away from sugars (for the most part) and eat low fat foods. I feel like I'm at least on the right track.Anyway, enough ranting...back to packing!
August 03
morning walk thoughts
Since the weather is actually some what nice, I decided to walk around our neighborhood this morning as opposed to going to the gym to walk on a treadmill. It was a bit hotter than I expected so I only walked for 20 minutes, but I think that is fairly good for now. ANYWAY, while I was walking I was trying to figure out what to do with these next few months. I have been looking for a job and applying for jobs to no avail. But yesterday, while I was subbing at the library, a former co-worker of mine came up to the desk and said she had just been talking about me. (Not always a great thing.) However, she is a director of a small montessori school here and she wanted to know if I would be interested in teaching the 4-6 graders until November. It is only 3 days a week, as the kid's schedule for Thursday and Friday is completely taught by specialty teachers. So I could still work Friday's at the library and sub on Thursday's and evenings. The thing is they are not sure how much they can pay me. That I'll find out in the next few days. I think this would be great as I am trying to figure out if I should get another degree in education or not.However, the job only goes until November. There is another job I have applied for as a parent educator for Planned Parenthood. I think that this would be an incredible opportunity to work with parents to help them to better themselves and in turn better the lives of their children. BUT, the woman in charge of this is out of the office until the 8th of August and there is no guarantee that I would get this job at all, or that they would let me have maternity leave and come back or that they'll pay me anything worth while. So I'm in a bind. I mean at least I know that I need to possibly be looking for a job in November or that I can work until I have the baby and then maybe have the opportunity to continue with that after the birth...
sigh...
I am sure it will all work out, I just wish that it would work out faster. I am very lucky to have a very understanding and supportive husband! There must be a purpose to everything, and if I am to wait then that is what I'll do. Patience is a virtue I guess...
August 08
the job
you'll have to forgive that i am not in the capitalizing mood today. it's rainy and yucky outside...good day for a movie.so i have decided to take the montessori school job. they offered a good amount on salary and only having to work three days a week is a plus. jerry will hopefully be able to work for four days a week and take wednesday off with me. we will make our dr's appointments on those days. i will still work at the library on friday's as well. of course, planned parenthood called me this morning and offered me an interview, but since i really want to stay home after the baby is born, it think this one is better. i'm supposed to meet with the directors of the school tomorrow. i'm interested in what it will be like teaching a variety of ages at the same time.
i've tried to do some research on montessori schools, but most of it is rather vague.
yesterday, jerry and i went into the dreaded wal-mart to price essentials for our baby. we have decided to go with cloth diapers. so after the initial cost of that we will not really be spending $ on diapers week after week.
one of jerry's co-worker's can't believe that we are going the cloth route. but not only is it better for the environment, but it's better for the baby's bottom as well. the baby is way less likely to have diaper rash and the cloth is much softer than disposable diapers. this is not to say we will never use disposable diapers. long trips and outings we will use disposable, and of course we will not force anyone taking care of our little one to use the cloth ones...but i really believe they are just as easy. also on our outing we found lots of stuff that baby's really don't need. i mean really how much stimuli do babies need these days. we were looking a bouncy seat, and we couldn't find one that didn't have lights and music and attachments all over it. no wonder kids are AD/HD these days. i think that they have enough stimulus with the environment around them. i can't imagine being an uneducated parent. all these gadgets that companies make you feel like you have to have or your baby will surely parish...or worse fall behind the curve....
WHATEVER!anyway, i'm glad that we had an idea before going into all this as to how we wanted to raise our kids and what we wanted to buy eventually. otherwise i think it might have been a bit overwhelming. as it was it was kinda fun -- well as fun as wal-mart can really be...
August 21
SORRY!!!!
I know that it has been a while since I have written in my blog. Here is my excuse. As said previously I am going to be teaching at a local montesorri school. Last week I worked to unpack, organize, and attempt to understand all my responsibilities and the room. This is really foreign to me. But I think it will be fine. The schedule is very odd, not like regular school. The children have blocks each day for one certain subject. For example, in the morning on Mon, Wed, and Fri, they have self directed math/geometry or spelling and grammar. Then we have snack. Then they have spanish, french, or choir. On Tues and Thurs they have yoga in the morning and then math. Then after lunch and recess on Mon we have a two hour block of literature and creative writing. On Tues we have a two hour block of social studies and research, Wed they have PE, and Thurs we have science. Fridays is all about Art. So it's odd not having science everyday. Anyway, having to get used to it all was a bit overwhelming. I'm still trying to figure out my lesson plans for just the first month. This week is all half days, so really there is not that much to have to plan.I am still working on Fridays at the library, so I have been pretty much coming home and going to bed. Wednesday afternoon I had two doctor's appointments. The first one was with a cardiologist. I was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse when I was in high school and my OB wanted to have it checked out just to make sure everything was okay. It seems I grew out of the proplapse. It was really cool to see my heart on an ultrasound. And since I was such a good patient (not to mention probably the healthiest the tech had seen in a while) the tech let us look at the baby on the ultra sound. IT WAS SOOOOO COOOLLLL!!!
Our little baby was just kicking away at the placenta. The tech poked at my tummy a bit and the baby turned around and looked up at us. It was AMAZING!!!!!! We then went to the OB for just a check up. I have gained 10.5 pounds thus far and am healthy. We got to hear the baby's heart beat at this appointment. It's still going strong at 155 beat/min. We go back on Sept. 7th to find out the sex and have an "official" ultrasound. Very exciting indeed!As for our house, we are starting to pack up the house. We hope to move October 9-ish. There are no updated pics, because it's all pretty boring right now. Though they have the insulation up (which means I can't go into the house right now) so they should start doing dry wall this week!
Sooooo....we have been rather busy. Once life settles into a routine a little more I promise to write more often. Right now I need to go download some science lesson plans!
August 23
First day of school....
So yesterday was our first day of school with kids. It was weird! I woke up and almost told Jerry I was sick and then realized I wasn't in kindergarten anymore. My co-teacher was there with me yesterday and that was really nice. I had the kids by myself today. They area handful, but really good kids and I think we will all get along very well. In the morning, while I read to them from "Bud, Not Buddy" (very good book!!) they sketched in their sketch books, then we did a game, then creative writing, then a touch of history, then snack and free play, then more reading, and then home. It's really nice to have only half days to get into the school routine. My co-teacher will teach tomorrow and Friday. So I really only have one more day this week.We are studying Asia as our continent of the year and I am now running off their names in Chinese Characters for them to design bookmarks for their book club books. I know that it is going to be really hard to leave these kids in November, but it will help to know that I'll have my own little handful a few months later.
The weather here has finally cooled off. Jerry, though, mowed the grass yesterday in super heat!!! But it has rained all day today and we wouldn't have been able to mow the "moat" until this weekend if he hadn't....THANKS BABE!!!
It's really nice that we will be working close to the same schedule. Tomorrow he is working only half a day. So while he's at work, I am going to meet a friend for coffee. And then we'll have the rest of the afternoon together. I can't believe how fast this summer has flown by. It seems like just yesterday we found out we were preggers and now Jerry believes this cold front is the beginning of the end of summer. Personally, seeing as how I am sweating like a pig, I'm sorta glad to see the heat ending a bit. I am VERY glad that I am no more preggers than I am... I would be miserable in the heat. Of course, there is still the threat of hurricanes looming....SIGH... But, as long as our new house withstands it, I can handle the hurricanes!
I am off to enjoy a cat nap before Jerry comes home from work!
August 27
DRYWALL!!!
We have drywall...WAHOOO!!!!!!
It is very exciting to walk through the house and have walls!!! I feel like our house is really coming along. However, I am a bit concerned about the ditches in our yard for the water and sewage lines to go in. At least we have documentation in case something happens.I can't believe how unbelievably tired I am. We only had half days of school this week and then I worked a full day at the library. i was sooooo tired yesterday afternoon. But then when I went to sleep I had horrible nightmares that wouldn't go away, even when I woke up to pee (30000 times a night!)
Jerry took me out to breakfast this morning and that helped. Though I was longing for a caffeiniated beverage....I had apple juice. My doctors say it is okay to have some caffeine, but I end up getting such bad withdrawal headaches if I have some and then don't. So I don't. ANYWAY, we came back home and finished packing up the office and cleaned it up because MOM AND DAD are coming for a visit!!!!!!! They will be here on Thursday. It sucks that I have to work Friday, but then a three day weekend!!!!! We also finished packing the living room area, for the most part. I fear that now that we have packed all this stuff the builders are going to tell us we can't close until November....sigh.
We met our new next door neighbor today though. He seemed really nice. But he said they pushed his closing back a month (already happened to us) and then the inspector couldn't make it on the scheduled closing so they pushed it back another week!!!! This is my biggest fear! We have to give 30 days notice before moving from our house. If they push our closing back WE ARE SCREWED!!!! First we would have to find a place to store all our stuff (which means hiring movers TWICE!) and then find a place to stay. Hopefully this won't happen to us. Our realtor's awesome and totally fights for us all the time. I would rather them tell me that they've pushed our closing back and finish early than give us a date and then finish late....EKKKKK!!!!!
Enough of this, I must sleep...hopefully well and no nightmares.
