Well, I have unofficially accepted a change in careers for next year (well not a complete change in career). I will tentatively (it is NOT official by the board yet) be working about 50% in my regular position (Business Ed) teaching a block high school class, a couple of online classes, and my one Middle School class. This means I teach 1 less class than I normally would. In addition to that I will be working as the IMC director (under the current Library Media Specialist who will be moving on to the Montessori school (tentatively)). With that I will be doing elementary story time (this could be interesting) and elementary computer time (this could be exciting!)
I will also NOT be doing as much with the school newspaper (this is bitter sweet as we have a love hate relationship) I have put blood, sweat, and tears into this paper, so letting it go is going to both great and sad (and most importantly a lot less stressful). I'll still have my hand in the advertising for a little while any way so I'm not leaving it cold turkey!
Chris doesn't have a lot of options for next year, he's taking the layoff pretty hard because he FINALLY found a place he LOVED to work and then due to budget cuts he can't stay. He had 1 interview, but you know how it goes when people already know who they're going to hire (too bad they couldn't tell you ahead of time!) I think this is stressing him out, mostly on the financial part. We are closing on the house in 2 weeks and the baby is coming in 11, lots of stuff to worry about. I'm amazingly calm about this. Things always turn out ok, and why worry about it now.
I'm officially 28 weeks pregnant, according to ALL 3 of my due dates;) We will be scheduling my C-section at my appointment at the end of May. I think I might keep that one a secret so no one can come see me at the hospital (I was secretly happy the OB wing was shut down when I had Mylee due to the N1H1 outbreak). Things are looking pretty good on the baby front, she's growing "above average" and thriving. Although she enjoys staying squished up into a little ball. We made a little trip to the Hospital last week with "threatened preterm labor" I had some bleeding and an intense pressure that wouldn't go away, so we ruled out labor (thank God!) and everything was fine. I couldn't feel anything during my 8+ hours of labor or contractions (I didn't even know I was in labor when I got to the hospital) with Mylee so that worries me that something will happen and I won't know, let's hope it doesn't!
Had my 28 week appointment this week with another growth scan ultrasound! Baby looks great and was a pain in the butt as usual! But it was exciting to see her and I finally got a CD of the baby moving! Everything else checked out, passed my glucose test by 1 point (shouldn't eat a bowl of chocolate covered carmel popcorn the night before) and I now have to take Iron supplements because my iron counts are too low, but that is minor!
Definitely looking forward to the delivery of this baby! It will be a happy ending to a long fought battle with my body!
More to come on our 1st house!!!
