Happy Easter to everyone (a little late but its better than nothing). Our Easter was uneventful, we stayed in our pj's all day and eventually made it out to Wal-Mart as it was the only store open on the holiday.....not all that exciting. i figured to sort of make it feel like Easter I made ham steaks for dinner with cous cous and corn on the side. yay, so very easter like right? :) Anyways, the new truck is AWESOME!!!! I have never had a new car...new is nice and i think i love it almost as much as my own child, its clean and pretty and smells like new car and has very few miles....yay. i dont think i will ever buy used again, there is just something so nice about having a new car. and i have become one of those people who parks away from everyone else and freaks out if i think there is a scratch....
Other things going on....we are talking about buying a house. yes, we own a condo (a fabulous 3rd floor apt) but with a kid a house would be nice, with a room for the computer instead of using the baby's closet....and a yard where he can play and we can bbq etc.... so yeah, not that we can sell our condo as we are approximately 80K upside down on it currently, thanks to the market crashing 6 months after we closed on the property.....so we are looking at options to buy another property and trying to rent out the current one...or maybe we will tel the bank....ooops, we cant afford the condo, you can have it back. granted that would seriously screw up my credit which is over 700 now (i have worked super hard to fix it) but we would have a house and both have new cars so maybe it wouldnt be that bad??? i dont know....it really sucks that we are stuck in the stupid condo when we could buy a 4 bedroom house now with the amount we financed for the condo :( ick.

Jungle Island

On Saturday we went to Jungle Island with our friends Lindsay, Chris and Amelia. We had a blast. Walking into the park we were greeted by the opportunity to hold some parrots which Little E seemed to enjoy although I dont have those pictures yet. We saw a show about parrots and other large birds which to my surprise actually kept the baby's attention and there were lots of opportunities to touch and pet other sorets of animals around the park. We got our picture taken with the kangaroos and Little E even got to pet a tiger cub! i think I enjoyed it more than he did but it sure was an experience!

We all had fun feeding the parrots and walking around looking at the animals.

Other weekend news....

So on sunday night I got approved for a car loan..yay! I've been looking into buying a new car and it was about time. Taking the baby in and out of a 2 door car is getting quite difficult considering how heavy he is now (over 16.5 lbs). So we were going to go look at cars sometime this week or this weekend. However, I think my car got pissed that I was going to trade her in and decided that instead of giving me lots of time to shop around and get lots of quotes she would rather just die on monday instead. Thanks car, I REALLY appreciate it. Luckily I had already decided on what car I was going to get (a Honda Ridgeline) and had already contacted 2 dealers to try and get the best deal. So tonight I go and get a new car....being able to get to and from work is a major plus...

I also have an interview at a new school that just opend up less than 5 miles from my in laws today at 2pm. This will make transporting the baby there before work SO much easier....I had to be out of my house by 5:45 am to ensure that I would make it to work on time when I drop him off....so hopefully all goes well. I'm not worried as I know the assisstant principal and another employee there. yay, new car and new job. yay. :)

Happy Pi Day!

For those of you who are not super dorks today is Pi Day! What is Pi Day? Well, hopefully you all know what Pi is, you know, that mathematical symbol you use when calculating things that do with circles.....it is equal to 22/7 or 3.1415926 etc etc etc.... well today is March 14th, or 3/14 .....yeah, i know, super dorky. Anyways, we planned a big Pi Day thing today at the PAC program. We brought boatloads of pies (surprise surprise) and beads to make pi necklaces with the girls and there was going to be a pi relay race for the boys among lots of other pi related activities all ending with us all eating lots of pie (cherry, apple, pecan, pumpkin, key lime, turtle, mango key lime and a few others). And we bought Pi shirts....theyre cute and i love them. But, when we got to FIU this am we discovered there had been a problem with the buses and only 7 of our 70 students were actually here......so we are left with lots of food and no students. we are postponing the pi day festivities until monday.

Here are 2 fun Pi Day Song we all know and love....

Happy Pi Day

Happy Pi day to you,
Happy Pi day to you,
Happy Pi day everybody,
Happy Pi day to you.

(to the tune of "Happy Birthday")

Oh Number PI

Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
Your digits are unending,
Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
No pattern are you sending.
You're three point one four one five nine,
And even more if we had time,
Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
For circle lengths unbending.

Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
You are a number very sweet,
Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
Your uses are so very neat.
There's 2 Pi r and Pi r squared,
A half a circle and you're there,
Oh, number Pi
Oh, number Pi
We know that Pi's a tasty treat.

(to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree")

Look what my kid can do!

Thats right, your eyes are not deceiving you....my son is driving. We are very proud, at the ripe old age of 6 months we now have a seasoned driver on our hands....what will he do next?!?!

Next is the classic bath pictures. We love our bathtime. splashing and making a huge mess, its probably time to graduate to the big tub soon, or at least put the baby tub IN the big tub or i'm afraid we might flood our kitchen.

Not a whole lot else to say, well there is but i'm not exactly in the mood to write, so youll all have to wait till next time for something moreinteresting to read.

yay!

i didnt embarrass myself last night at the game..yay! in fact i actually looked like i knew how to play...double yay! unfortunately we lost, its the first lost the team has had in like 20 games.....3 seaons straight almost....mmmmm, kind of ironic. but i know it wasnt my fault....the ref was a joke and was giving out red and yellow cards all game to both teams....and there were some other issues. but all in all it was fun. yay.

Soccer

So apparently i thought it was a good idea to start playing soccer again. We'll see how good that idea is once I get back on the feild at 7:30pm. The team I used to play on sucked, well, we had a lot of really great players we just couldnt get it together for the whole game to actually pull out some wins. And it was ok if i wasnt up to par anymore with my soccer playing abilities.....i just played and had fun. Well I joined one of the "good teams" the team that won the competitive division last season (i played in the recreational division before). hahaha, i'm laughing just thinking about how ridiculous I am going to look trying to keep up with the rest of the team...at least they'll be able to make up for my shortcomings right? oh yeah, and as of last night I came down with some sort of sick....you know, sore throat so you cant talk and so much pressure in your head you think your brain might actually explode out of your ears type of sick. awesome, i'm sure it will just make the whole experience tonight way more amusing.

Portraits

So we got the online pictures today!!! This definately made my crappy first week at work end well! I think they are awesome, but of course I am biased! :) They arent as good as i'm sure they would be at a better studio but affordability wise they rock. I ordered a bunch and will be sending some out...let me know if you have any favorites...I also have the username and password if anyone wants to order their own.

Week 1

Week 1 wasn't a total disaster as far as I can tell up to this point in the day. I'm on my lunch break and still have one period of 10th grade geometry...they certainly do hold the power to ruin an entire week in just 90 minutes.....so we'll see. I wrote up 2 kids from that class wednesday and if they're back in class from suspension it could be a hellish sort of end of the week. I'm hoping they aren't there. My 7th graders were MUCH better over the last 2 days, there have been no more calling parents during classtime as of yet, although i did have to call an 8th grade parent, unfortunately she didnt pick up her phone. better luck next time.
Yesterday sucked, I worked until about 1 and since i didnt have anything else to do i decided i was going to call out of a class i'm taking on thursday night becasue i felt horrible (i actually did) and go pick up the baby and actually hang out with him.......yeah, so i was told i wouldnt get credit for the entire class if i didnt show up (from 5pm-8) unlsess there was a funeral or i was in the hospital....so i couldnt go get the baby :( and now i was stuck with the dilemma of what to do for the next 4 hours until my class starts. i decided on going home to take a nap...i got 2 good hours and felt like i was in a good position to make it through class without falling asleep or bursting out in tears. i succeeded at both :)

People keep saying that being away from the baby will get easier with time. BS. the first 3 days i was ok, it sucked but i dealt. these last 2 days have been the longest days ever and i hate being away from him. i hate the fact someone else is raising him and spending all that time with him and i cant. i hate that by the time i can get to pick him up he's miserable becasue he's cranky and tired and he's that way until he goes to bed. I get no good time with him where he's smiling and giggling and happy. all i get is a tired cranky baby and my MIL gets to hang out with him when he's alert, awake, and in a good mood. and what bothers me the most is that I feel super guilty about being jealous about the fact she gets to see all his "firsts" now and i dont. i hate it i hate it, i hate it. i hate that we cant afford for me to stay home. and the fact that work sucks doesnt make it any easier.

somehow i dont htink its going to get any easier. lets just hope i can keep myself together long enough to make it through the day :)

Day 3

I am sitting here typing this while still at school. By day 3 I have become tired and not as excited about work (not that I was ever excited but anyways...)...I'm finding new problems or issues every day with my 7th and 8th grade program at FIU. Not to mention the fact that there is something very, very wrong with 7th grade boys. and i'm serious, they need to come up with some sort of pill you give 7th grade boys to make them...well...not 7th grade boys because they are horrible. i am now dreading the day my son turns 12...ugh. of course whatever teacher they had prior to my arrival did nothing with them and had no control so they are testing me to see how i handle things. needless to say they were not very happy with me today. if you can imagine, picture me sitting at one of those 1/2 hexagon tables they usually put together to make a full hexagon and surrounded by 4 little (and when i say little i mean little...they havent exactly hit their growth spurt yet) boys that i made pull up random desks to my table so i could monitor them because they are horrible children (i am being over-dramatic here). and by horrible i mean throwing candy at each other (nerds to be exact), throwing paper on the floor, getting up and walking over to someone else just to punch them in the arm, talking in "outdoor voices" (yes I ACTUALLY have to use that terminology with them) etc, etc, etc. so as they are sitting crowded around my table they continue to say innapropriate stuff to each other and not do what they were supposed to. So i had a student go get their parent contact info from my supervisor and sat and began calling parents on MY cell phone using MY minutes during class to fill them in on the actions of their beloved children. Once i was done explaining it to them I waited for their response and would say "oh, and they're sitting right here would you like to talk to them?" Let me tell you just how gratifying it is to see their little mortified faces as they get reprimanded by their parents over the phone in front of the whole class. :) Sure did make me feel a bit better, and honestly thats all i really give a crap about! so yeah, i'm exhausted and aggravated but those little children i call students will be on their best behavior by the end of next week. time for me to go pick up the baby...yay, the day is over!

Day 1

Day one wasnt horrible! yay! thats a start i guess. i didnt cry at all this morning as i got up at 5am to shower, get dressed, walk the dog and show E how to prepare Little Es breakfast. I was out the door at 6:20am. No tears at all. Of course it helped that I didnt get to see the baby at all before I left so I didnt have to say goodbye. Then to work. For those who know me I teach high school math. High School, not middle, not elementry, i dont even like freshman. Regardless I decided to take a position through my school teaching in the PAC program in conjunction with FIU (Florida International University). PAC is a program where they target some 7th graders that are at-risk andpull them out of their home school to go to the university for math,science and computers for the first half of the day and then they go back to their home school for the rest of the day. It runs through 12th grade. If they finish they get a full scholorship to college. Many of the PAC kids are national honor society kids and last year our valedictorian and salutorian were all PAC kids. Anyways....I am teaching the 7th and 8th graders pre-algebra, algebra 1 and computers. and i go to the high school every other day to teach 2 geometry classes meaning every other day I am essentially done teaching at 10am...as my planning periods are those days. Great schedule and FIU is about a half hour closer to my house than Southridge (my high school is about 45minutes from my house). There are a lot of problems with the PAC program which I'm sure I'll write about at another date but the pros outweigh the cons by about a million.

I got out around 3:30 after having to do a bunch of work to get ready for tomorrow and headed off to pick up the baby. I was greeted with huge smiles and when i picked him up he layed his head on my shoulder with a huge smile which made today seem worth it. It is definately a shock to be back at work and not easy but it's what has to be done and it will get easier i hope!

Countdown

The hours are slowly ticking away...... :(

Not that I'm counting or anything but I have about 39 hours to go before i must report to work.....and i will officially be a working mom instead of a stay at home mom. i hate that i have to go back. well, hate may be a strong word, but whatever it is that I am feeling is pretty darn close. work sucks (for some more than others) but i suppose it is a neccessary part of the whole "adult" world i have found myself in. Staying at home I have all the time in the world to spend with Little E but no money to do anything. Working I will have the money to do things with hime but not the time becasue by the time I pick him up after work he enters into his fussy and not so fun hours before bed. it sucks, it really really sucks.

On a positive note we got 6 month portraits done today at JC Penny. They came out amazing and as soon as I have them I will send them out to everyone...