It's a BOY!

This has been a long week. I've had several breaks at school where I haven't had to teach all my classes, so I've been very appreciative of that. Wednesday was my doctor's appt. First they sent me to the wrong hospital for my appt. and Scott took off work early and drove to St. John's when we really only had to go to Hillcrest, which was a pain. My appointment got over really early and she said she would do an ultrasound next time and tell us what it was. I had told her how they sent us to the wrong place, and I think she could tell we were disappointed, so she said she'd go check on something and be right back. She came back in and said since their ultrasound tech wasn't busy and since they sent us to the wrong place they would make up for it. So, we got an ultrasound and IT'S A BOY!!!!!!! I kind of had a feeling anyways that it was a boy. I had a vivid dream back in July that I was pregnant and it was a boy. They were really cute pictures too. I need to see if my scanner still works and try to post pictures. Scott was a little worried, but a boy is growing on him. His Mom always talked about what a bad kid he was and she said we were going to get one just like him. Personally I think he was probably bored all the time because they worked so much and he was an only child. Plus, I won't let our baby be bad! I think I feel him kicking right now. Supposedly you're not supposed to be able to feel it yet, but I really think that's what it is. I'm almost 15 1/2 weeks, so I don't think I'm making it up. Anyways, I'm really looking forward to the weekend. Happy Friday.

The Decorations Are Up!

I could not control myself this weekend and the entire house looks like Christmas now. I didn't get my upstairs tree up yet, but everything else inside is done. Our ladder wasn't tall enough to get the big lights up on the house though. I put out my inflatables and some of my other yard decorations though. The front yard at our new house is smaller than our old house, so I have 5 deer, 1 inflatable, 1 package of candy canes and 1 package of holographic light up presents that are not out. I think I will just decorate the backyard too. Hey, if you have it you shouldn't waste it! My 5th graders didn't come to art today and neither have my 1st graders. They were all doing other school related things. God knew I needed a break and that I had really thought it was Sunday when I woke up this morning. I've very excited to get this much of a break. I also won't have my 4th graders tomorrow either. I'm not sure about 1st grade. We'll see. I go to the doctor on Wednesday. I'll be 15 weeks this week. My friend told me that her doctor told her what both of hers were at 12 weeks. I'm really hoping she does an ultrasound and we might be able to find out!

I'm in love with this crib on Restoration Hardware's website. I'm not in love with the price unfortunately. It's almost $1,000 and Scott said no. I don't blame him. It's a sleigh bed crib in dark cherry wood. I've been looking on the website of the lady we bought our desk set and dining room set from. I think I found one similar, so I'm really hoping it's cheaper. I e-mailed her today to find out. We're going to do the nursery in blue and chocolate like the bathroom if it's a boy and pink and chocolate if it's a girl. I want to do the chocolate on the bottom and put up a chair rail and have the top be the pink, or blue, in alternating stripes of the different finishes. I can't wait to do it! Or, I guess I should say that I can't wait for Scott to do it. I can only imagine how long it will take to do the taping of the stripes. You wouldn't believe how long it took just to do the guest bathroom. It's all worth it in the end. Pray for me from 1:00-1:50! I'm painting 27 kindergarteners with paint on their hands and arms to make a Thanksgiving place mat. Things could get hairy! I did recruit 4 5th grade girls to come help though!

Christmas Decorations

I am at the moment enjoying an unexpected break from my first grade class. They are practicing in the gym for their Thanksgiving program. I actually really enjoy most of the first graders I would have had today, but I also enjoy a break even more. It will prepare me for the kindergarten class from Hades that is getting ready to descend upon the art room. I decided that I'm going to put my Christmas trees up and that tomorrow before Scott goes to work that we're going to put our outside Christmas lights up. 3 other people in our neighborhood already have their lights up. 2 are right across the street teasing me that there's are already up. The people aren't actually teasing me, it's just the fact that I love my Christmas lights and I want to enjoy them for as long as I can. I think I will put my tree for the study up tonight. I just have to convince Scott to drag in the box for me! I think when he leaves to go to work tomorrow I may just decorate the rest of the house.

100 more minutes left of teaching for me today. I'm very glad that it's Friday!

Too Much To Handle

Today was a good day. Yesterday was the kind of day that I called Scott and lunch and told him I was quitting. I f we had the money, I would have walked out and left at lunch! A lot of the teachers have been gone to a meeting, so they have subs. Kids never act right when there is a sub in their room. On top of all that we got a new kindergarten kid so the class I had yesterday had 27 5 year olds in it. Too much. The counselor asked me to do something that I felt wasn't right, I had a meeting after school, so by the time I got home I was worn out. Then Scott told me I made a mistake on the budget we're creating. It was a huge mistake, so I cried, we went to community group, I came back and cried some more and went to bed. It wasn't even the end of the world, but to me, at the moment and because of everything that went on, it seemed huge and too much to handle. Today has been so much better. All my kids have been good, and tomorrow is Friday. I have a job and I'm alive, so I guess that's all that matters anyways. I am looking forward to 2:40 tomorrow!

Clean Garage!

Scott and I had a very productive weekend. Friday was our date night. We got to go to Olive Garden. You wouldn't think it would be busy already at 5:00, but it was, but luckily for us all the people ahead of us were more than 2, so we got seated right away even they told me a 20 minute wait. We had a great waiter too. We were there for almost 2 hours, which is kind of ridiculous, but it's also nice not to be rushed either. We went to the mall afterwards and looked around, bought a few things at Bath and Body Works and went home. Saturday morning I made homemade blue berry muffins and then we went to Ceramic Cottage to buy glazes for school. I even got some cake stands for me that I'm going to decorate with snowflakes. We ate lunch then spent over 4 hours cleaning out the garage. I only saw one mouse, so it could have been worse. We need to call the garage door people and have them fix something on the door and then I can park in there. We're very proud of ourselves about how clean it is. Every time I go in the garage I'm excited to see how there is nothing in the middle of the floor. Sunday we went to church, went grocery shopping, Scott went to his football game and then we went on a walk. After all that we went to dinner with his parents and then came home to get ready for the week. The week has gone by fast, but I have to admit that when I woke up yesterday morning I didn't know what day ti was and was very disappointed to learn it was indeed only Tuesday. Last night I made homemade macaroni and cheese for the first time. We were both pleased with the results. Scott had never had anything other than boxed macaroni so he ate a ton of it!Thanksgiving plans are under way and I'm excited. It is all I can do to control myself and not decorate for Christmas. I think Scott would kill me! I did find pictures from the last Thanksgiving at my house were I had already decorated for Thanksgiving. I think I will go ahead and put up my 2 small trees because they won't be in the living room. We'll see if I can stop at that! Happy Wednesday.

Friday could not come at a better time!

Can I just say that I would love to have a giant glass of red wine or a margarita, or just a couple of shots of tequila? By this time last year the kindergarten kids had settled down a lot and we were able to get a lot more done. That would not be the case this year. I'm just glad they are my 5th class out of 6. I am very grateful that I have a terrific group of 2nd graders that come in afterwards that can sense that I need them to behave. Today's group offered to clean up my floors ( they were covered in construction paper trash), and cleaned up my paint trays after they got done with their paintings. I think if there were not 25 or 26 in the class we could have a much more productive class. Oh well. 12 school days until Thanksgiving break and only 15 school days after that until Christmas break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight is going to be our date night. We haven't been doing them that much lately because we had a tendency to spend a lot of money. I think we're going to go to Olive Garden for dinner and maybe to the mall afterwards. I have a couple of coupons for free chocolate from Godiva, buy 2 candles get 2 free at Yankee Candle, and some buy some stuff get some free stuff at Bath and Body Works. I may even get a decaf peppermint mocha at Starbucks. I know it's early, but I just need one okay. I found my Calming Christmas CD yesterday and put it in our CD player while I was getting dinner ready and cleaning the kitchen. Scott was curious as to whether we would be listening to Christmas music from now until Christmas or if this would just be a one time incident. Which one do you think it is? It's really not that hard if you know me. Hey, Wal-Mart already has their trees up and their music playing, why can't I? Tomorrow we're cleaning out the garage because there are a few rodents that decided they should take up residence in there and eat the bird food. Granted, our house is built on what used to be their field, but I just can't deal with it. We're also going to get a ton of traps for them. I hate to do it, but I also hate to hear them when I go out in the garage. If I had some more competent cats they could take care of it, but they are all spoiled, fat, declawed house cats, so what can I expect. I'll let you know how the cleaning goes. I have a feeling there will be a lot of screaming coming from me!

Too Tired

I'm too tired today to write much, so here's the short version. The Halloween party went great, exhausting, but great. Someone stole one of the pumpkins off my porch on Saturday, the house is undecorated for Halloween and redecorated for fall. Kids have internal weather monitors that make them be bad right before the weather changes, hence the too tired to write anything today. They wore me out! Gotta go vote after school, then I'm going to come home and not do anything and go to bed early. And, by the way I'm pregnant. Don't know why I waited until now, but I thought I would for the first one. you know, the whole don't tell anyone till after the first trimester thing. Also, everyone who reads my blog already knew anyway! The due date is May 13, and we're super excited. More on all that later. Gotta try to stay awake until I get to leave in 30 minutes!