Time goes by so fast

I can't believe spring is here and I'm almost done student teaching. My days are so packed that time is flying by. I'm with my students all day, after school I am getting things ready for the next day of teaching and/or hanging up students' work, go home and do house stuff, i.e. - vacuum, laundry and all that other good stuff. Student teaching is going well. My co-op teacher does team teaching which is nice. She has almost 30 years of experience and she gives me lots of good ideas. The kids are funny. I did a lesson on how a seed becomes a plant. I started the seeds on moist cotton balls so they could see the transformation. They thought it was cool. Soon it was time to transplant the seeds into peat pots I had gotten. One boy came back and asked what the peat pots were and I told him the name. Another boy came back and asked the same question. The first boy said, "Those are peacocks." Omg! Too funny!
E keeps getting boo boo belly. We had her in the ER a couple of weeks ago for severe dehydration. We could not keep any fluids in her. She has a little boo boo belly again.
M was operated on Friday morning. His shoulder had been hurting him for quite some time. He had bursitis and a small bone spur. The orthoped shaved the bone and cleaned everything up. Hopefully M will have relief. My Mil had surgery last Monday--a total knee replacement for her right knee. We joked that with three family members there should have been a discount. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they are on the road to recovery.

Love

I wish all of you a belated Happy Valentine's Day!!! "In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make (the quote that used to be on Mel's blog)." The Beatles.

Dream

Two nights ago I had the most wonderful dream. It was warm, maybe late spring or early summer, and I was in a living room. I was holding a beautiful baby boy. He had brown hair and was wearing a white onesie with little blue and green cars and trucks on it. I had a blue blanket on my other arm. We were getting ready to go to an amusement park. I remember smelling that baby smell. And I could feel him. His soft and pudgy legs and arms. It was so real.

There's a birthday in the house

My husband's birthday is today. Happy birthday love!! He is absolutely the best thing that ever happened to me. He is kind, caring, funny and loves me unconditionally. I am so glad I sent him that wink ;-)
We spent the day with our families and at a charity basketball game between the fire dept. and police. We won this year. We celebrated afterwords with pizza and wings. Some of my husband's friends/fellow firefighters bought tastycakes and the servers put candles in them and came out singing happy birthday. They also love my husband.
I love you M!!!

Wanting and waiting

While there is lot of good news in the blogosphere, I'm being reminded of what I don't have: a baby. I'm very happy for my cohorts because I'm aware of their struggles. But it still hurts to read betas, look at nursery pictures and see newborn pictures. No one said life is fair but it sure sucks sometimes.
We've been trying for almost four years now and it isn't getting easier. We are going to do i.vf in September but it seems like ions away. Pa is a shitty state to live in when pursuing treatment because they do not mandate insurance companies to cover anything. Hopefully I will get a teaching job and we can get started. It's so much money but I would always wonder, "what if?" if I didn't pursue it.

The chef, teaching and pimple post

I am having a pampered chef party tomorrow. I didn't want to have one but I can't say no. Only a few people are coming because a lot of my friends work on the weekends and that's ok. It will be a cozy dining affair with great company, good food and wine (maybe sangria?) I'll have to remember to take pictures.
Student teaching is going alright. It's a bit overwhelming. It doesn't help that my co-op teacher doesn't explain to me the curriculum and prep me for each day. I get there around 8:40. Some kids (I'm student teaching 2nd grade) are starting to straggle in. I put up the morning agenda, check homework, get a lunch count and take attendance. There are 23 students and on most days there seem to be more. They have one special per day (music, art, gym, etc.) and we use that as a prep period. It's a rush to get things done in a timely fashion. I conduct morning circle time where we go over the day's message. The message contains math problems, a sentence that has spelling/grammatical errors and an analogy. That is our morning. Afternoons should consist of math and reading. However, if there are delays or an assembly then that puts a crunch on those subjects. The school I'm at does integrated lessons (one topic covers math, reading, science and math. long gone are the days of teaching math for 45 mins., science for 45 mins., etc.) My teacher is great and does team teaching with me. Yesterday though she left me alone a few times because she was having a problem with her daughter. I just jumped in and began where she left off with reading. It helps tremendously that I know these kids (I did my internship with this class). My adviser will be coming on Thursday to do an informal observation. That is nerve wracking.
I have many pimples on my cheeks and chin. This is due to nerves and my incessant eating of chocolate. I can't help it, I'm an emotional eater. I love chocolate. Surprisingly my weight is going down. I was too tired this week to work out. I started again today. I hope my work out videos come today.
I have work at 3 pm. I am so tired of working on the weekends. I get no rest. I'm so ready to have Sat and Sun off.
What's new with you?

Trying to be positive

I've adopted a new motto for this year, "Be positive". I am trying to stay optimistic. Every month comes with a new hope of getting pregnant.
I've gained some weight due to emotional overeating. I'm back eating healthy foods and indulging in goodies lightly. I am getting up early for student teaching (which started today!) and I'm going to add exercising to videos or Fit tv to my morning routine. I'm tired of being tired and having back fat. I can't control when I'm going to have a baby but I can control my weight.

Student teaching is something that I knew I had to do in order to graduate. But I never thought the time would come to do it. I'm in my last semester and today was my first day. I am with the same teacher and class I had for my internship so there is no getting to know you period. I'm very comfortable with the class and the teacher is wonderful. She herself a former stirrup queen. How nice is that? I lucked out.

The Arctic front is coming through our neck of the woods. I'm dressing in layers to stay warm. And there's nothing like a nice hot cup of tea with milk and honey!