Christian on the Swing

Christian is Laughing!

Christian's laugh is the sweetest sound in the entire world. I think I would chop off my arm if I knew tht it would make him laugh. Mom-Mom and I had a blast making him giggle last night. The only problem is he only laughs at something once and then you have to do something different... I am not sure how many different sounds I can make before I will need to recycle them!

In other news... I am still not happy teaching. I have developed a tolerance for my morning class, but that is about as much as I can say. My kids are difficult .... especially theafternoon bunch. Okay must go make homework packets!

Mystery Woman

Well I think I deleted everything from the blog that would tell the school system who I am.... or at least I made a very good effort at doing so. So now that I have that cleared up let me just say... I really do not like my kids this year. I was going to say hate and although I may feel that way I didn't write it because I didn't want to seem overly dramatic....however I really do feel this way. I have only been at work for a few days and I already dread dealing with them each day.

I just had to get that off of my chest. NOW I will go see how Chris is doing.

What a yucky day..

The day started off wrong when I woke up later than I was supposed to. It continued to get worse when I remembered that Christian & Tim were already gone. When I wake up and they aren't still at home I feel like they aren't real...that's the only way I can explain it. I don't feel like a wife or a mom because they aren't around for me to talk to or cuddle.

The day continued on the wrong foot when I got to work and immediately realized that I had locked my keys in my car. I couldn't do anything about it until the end of the day and so it loomed over me like a dark cloud all day. The day got even better when I remembered that we had a field trip. Ordinarily this would put me in a good mood, however, my students do not know how to behave in the classroom...so why would I want to take them out in public? Hrmmm I think I will go erase the part that says where I teach....just in case things get ugly. Anyways it is also really hot outside and it was a walking field trip.

I was really stressed all day and kept forgetting to call and check on Christian. That always cheers me up so I try to do it as much as possible. My mom called when we were on the way to the library and I could hear the little beast in the background. I think he was saying hello. Speaking of Christian talking I had a dream that he said mommy last night... He spoke very clearly so I was quite impressed.

The field trip ended up not being too horrible. The other grades were completely out of control at times, but the fifth grade did pretty well! Now I am at school waiting for my class to start. I neglected to bring my teacher's guide so I can only do so much planning ahead... so now I am spending my time on the Internet. I was talking to Laura but she abandoned me. I guess that is okay because as soon as it hits 6:00 I am going to call Tim and make him talk to me while he drives home! In fact, I think I will go now that way I can find out what Chris is up to before I do that!

M.I.A.

So I have been missing for quite some time... I would blame it all on the past week, but I have been gone for much longer than that. This last week sucked. I had to return to work earlier than originally planned. The teachers that held my class were wonderful and are still checking on me to make things as easy as possible. I really hate going to work everyday but there is no other option so off I go.

Christian did fine this week. I think he likes spending time with his Nana and Grandma. He was a little beast Thursday night and decided to wake up almost every half hour all night long. I was a zombie on Friday and not in a very good mood...but oh well... I guess that is going to happen when a baby is at home! He slept okay last night so he is in a pretty good mood. I on the other hand am still looking for a nap to catch up on the sleep I missed.

We took him to the Apple Festival today. I really like the festival but it was just too hot today! I hope things are going better for Laura's festival out west... it was 90 degrees!! Way too hot for Chris...so we came back to Nana's house and hung out under the ceiling fans. He LOVES to stare at the ceiling fans! In fact staring at the fans and swinging on the porch swings are his two favorite activities right now. At the festival we got to see Ashley and Caroline for a few minutes. (Caroline is his birthday buddy they were born on the same day in the same hospital in rooms right next to each other!) We spent some time with Raquel, Mary Ann, and Baby Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn seemed to like Chris and Raquel got a really cute picture of her holding Christian's hand! I also ran into a few people that I graduated with... it is really weird running into them now and seeing them with their kids! (But I guess they might say that about running into me!)

I am off to do some lesson plans... hopefully it won't take very long and Christian will stay asleep until I finish...I will try very hard to update this at least once this week!