i am SO behind on posting. holy moly. oh well. blame it on the fact that everything i want to post about requires me to download pictures from my camera and since i don't really have a personal computer right now, that's a difficult task.
anyway, here is something very current! like 2 hours ago current.
there are a billion teacher pregnant at my school right now (no i think just 6 but still, that's quite a lot!)
well for 3 of us it's our first baby so they threw a baby shower for all of us today during break (we have a schoolwide 20minute break everyday- oh private school...)
it was so sweet and thoughtful. they had cake with our names on it and congrats (a chocolate and white one) and punch and salty treats. and they got us all a gift! 2 outfits, socks, a book, a toy, and a sweet cross for each of us. there was me having a boy in july, a girl having a girl due in 11 days (and her baby bump is smaller than mine...) and a man who's wife is due in june with ??, they didn't find out. since he was the only one without a baby bump, he came in late and had a volleyball under his shirt. it was really funny.
this has been the best place to work. all of the faculty and staff here are so nice and happy! i never hear teachers complaining about, well, anything that has to do with their job, which is nothing like other schools i have worked in. i will really miss these people when i leave, even though i have only been here a little while (since the beginning of november). i am very blessed to have worked in such a great environment!
Lilypie First Birthday tickers
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
hit and run
matt and i were the victims of a hit and run yesterday!
don't worry we are fine and so is our car but still... how rude!
here is the story (it's short). we were driving and a car pulling out of college apartments (where katie used to live) didn't stop at all at his stop sign and hit us. matt saw it coming (i was driving) and said "whoa!" so i swerved and he barely hit us. we put our emergency flashers on (we were in matt's suv) and pulled over. well he sped right on past us!
luckily we got his license plate number and the make and model of his car. we had to go to the police station and file it. while we were there we watched some kids get picked up by their parents.
the topic yesterday at church was honesty and i think it is so fitting to this story. if he had just pulled over and made sure everything was okay, we would have said "there is no damage so just don't worry about it" but he didn't. so now his mommy (cause it's registered under her name) is going to get a nice phone call from the cayce police today.
moral of the story: honesty really is the best policy.
don't worry we are fine and so is our car but still... how rude!
here is the story (it's short). we were driving and a car pulling out of college apartments (where katie used to live) didn't stop at all at his stop sign and hit us. matt saw it coming (i was driving) and said "whoa!" so i swerved and he barely hit us. we put our emergency flashers on (we were in matt's suv) and pulled over. well he sped right on past us!
luckily we got his license plate number and the make and model of his car. we had to go to the police station and file it. while we were there we watched some kids get picked up by their parents.
the topic yesterday at church was honesty and i think it is so fitting to this story. if he had just pulled over and made sure everything was okay, we would have said "there is no damage so just don't worry about it" but he didn't. so now his mommy (cause it's registered under her name) is going to get a nice phone call from the cayce police today.
moral of the story: honesty really is the best policy.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
matt's crazy month
this is supposed to a blog for the both of us and i realize i rarely mention matt in any of it. so here is a post for him.
this month is so crazy for him. it's his last month of his masters and when it's over, i'm afraid he may just have nothing left in him! i cannot possibly tell you everything he has to do but let me give you some highlights:
-a huge paper (about 20 pages on one piece of music)
-an hour long presentation on varese to the band director and dma students (torture and ridiculous)
-a listening log of over 100 pieces of band music (the binder is 3 inches thick)
-a recital (which is really a concert where he is the only conductor and its 45 minutes of music)
-write program notes for all of the pieces on his recital (that are to appeal to both educated and non-educated listeners)
-an oral exam!!! (the only way he can graduate college! him and 5 professors. each gets 10 minutes to ask him literally anything and he has to answer from the top of his head)
this is honestly the super short list. on top of this there is the stress of applying to/interviewing for jobs, church callings, final marching band events (spring game, banquet, etc.) and you know the whole having a baby thing.
i don't know how he is holding his head up out of the water for all this but he is. he told me earlier this week he knows he is being tested and he just has to do it. i can't wait for him to have less stress and i know he is ready for it too! so if you see matt and he looks tired... it's probably because he is actually exhausted.
this month is so crazy for him. it's his last month of his masters and when it's over, i'm afraid he may just have nothing left in him! i cannot possibly tell you everything he has to do but let me give you some highlights:
-a huge paper (about 20 pages on one piece of music)
-an hour long presentation on varese to the band director and dma students (torture and ridiculous)
-a listening log of over 100 pieces of band music (the binder is 3 inches thick)
-a recital (which is really a concert where he is the only conductor and its 45 minutes of music)
-write program notes for all of the pieces on his recital (that are to appeal to both educated and non-educated listeners)
-an oral exam!!! (the only way he can graduate college! him and 5 professors. each gets 10 minutes to ask him literally anything and he has to answer from the top of his head)
this is honestly the super short list. on top of this there is the stress of applying to/interviewing for jobs, church callings, final marching band events (spring game, banquet, etc.) and you know the whole having a baby thing.
i don't know how he is holding his head up out of the water for all this but he is. he told me earlier this week he knows he is being tested and he just has to do it. i can't wait for him to have less stress and i know he is ready for it too! so if you see matt and he looks tired... it's probably because he is actually exhausted.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
late start
today was such a strange morning! it stormed last night here in charlotte (i only know because oliver, my parents 110lb golden lab who lives with my grandparents too and sleeps in my room, woke me up with the loudest bark ever!). well when i woke up i could see that there was debris various places due to the extreme winds (i seriously thought my window was going to break) but nothing more than that.
boy was i wrong! i left my grandparents at 7:05 like i do every morning and i usually get to school right at 7:30. today i didn't get to school until 8! homeroom is supposed to be over 7:53 but when i got here, we were still in homeroom. our principal was standing at the front door checking teachers in. we couldn't move onto a period because there weren't enough teachers in the building! we stayed in homeroom until 9 and they put on remember the titans over the tv for the whole school to watch.
some kids got here 3 hours late. that's not a joke. there are over 200,000 power outages and 75 lights out. not to mention 485 is closed at our exit and a bunch of the roads around here are down to one lane or closed because trees are fallen on them.
so no a period which means i gave e period a free day so i can keep my music appreciation classes on the same schedule. i have gotten so much done today!! i only blog during my lunch break, so this time doesn't really count.
hope everyone is safe from the weather. it's beautiful and sunny here now. i guess i will still get to walk the puppies after all! (they are here with me for the week)
boy was i wrong! i left my grandparents at 7:05 like i do every morning and i usually get to school right at 7:30. today i didn't get to school until 8! homeroom is supposed to be over 7:53 but when i got here, we were still in homeroom. our principal was standing at the front door checking teachers in. we couldn't move onto a period because there weren't enough teachers in the building! we stayed in homeroom until 9 and they put on remember the titans over the tv for the whole school to watch.
some kids got here 3 hours late. that's not a joke. there are over 200,000 power outages and 75 lights out. not to mention 485 is closed at our exit and a bunch of the roads around here are down to one lane or closed because trees are fallen on them.
so no a period which means i gave e period a free day so i can keep my music appreciation classes on the same schedule. i have gotten so much done today!! i only blog during my lunch break, so this time doesn't really count.
hope everyone is safe from the weather. it's beautiful and sunny here now. i guess i will still get to walk the puppies after all! (they are here with me for the week)
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
registries
last saturday matt and i spent the bulk of our day making our baby registries at babies r us and target.
it was a lot of fun but also very overwhelming. why are there SO MANY things to choose from? like a hundred different bottles and pacifiers and bibs and diapers and everything else. do such little people really need so many choices?? i'm not sure they do yet, but i will let you know for sure in a few months.
we had a really positive experience at babies r us minus the whole being clueless factor. the people were nice and everyone kept asking if we needed any help, which some of the time we accepted. target (my very favorite store in the world by the way) was a different story. we went to the harbison target (definitely not my favorite store) and they were just not helpful at all. so it's a pretty small registry for now.
i must say, i enjoyed making our wedding registry more. it was much easier. but i'm so excited to have little baby evan that it was way worth all of the hours and standing around staring at all the choices!
it was a lot of fun but also very overwhelming. why are there SO MANY things to choose from? like a hundred different bottles and pacifiers and bibs and diapers and everything else. do such little people really need so many choices?? i'm not sure they do yet, but i will let you know for sure in a few months.
we had a really positive experience at babies r us minus the whole being clueless factor. the people were nice and everyone kept asking if we needed any help, which some of the time we accepted. target (my very favorite store in the world by the way) was a different story. we went to the harbison target (definitely not my favorite store) and they were just not helpful at all. so it's a pretty small registry for now.
i must say, i enjoyed making our wedding registry more. it was much easier. but i'm so excited to have little baby evan that it was way worth all of the hours and standing around staring at all the choices!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
eye doctor
i promise i will put all of ireland stuff up soon. but that's going to be more of a task than this post.
today i went to the eye doctor.
i don't have a good record with eye doctors. my eye doctor growing up (who had enormously large ears) told me, and i quote, "you are the most difficult patient i have ever had". true story.
my mom and katie will just laugh the whole time we are at the eye doctor because of my seemingly ridiculous behavior. but i SWEAR it is completely unintentional.
i just really cannot keep my eyes open for the pressure test (you know the puff of air that is so loud and violent it makes you hit your head really hard on the bar they make you rest against?). well today it was so bad with my incessant blinking and watering or my eye that they didn't even try it.
then she asked me how often i threw my contacts away. i told her about every 2 months. she looked at me like i was an idiot and said "these are 2 week contacts. you are going to go blind." this is the first time she threatened me with blindness but they kept coming.
then she made me cover one eye and tell her what letters i could see. well in all honestly i couldnt see any with my left eye. she told me that was ridiculous and my vision shouldnt be that bad in my left eye. okay, well, it is. sorry.
then she had to put drops in my eyes. never good. she told me she hopes i never get an eye infection or i will go blind (time #2) because i wont be able to put the medicine in my eye. i told her i had an eye infection a year ago and had to put drops in every 2 hours and she said she was shocked. then she said she didnt know how i wore contacts because, and i quote, "you are the worst blinker i have ever dealt with". such is life.
then she had to do a different pressure test where she numbed my eye and had to touch it with some machine. she said most people who cant do the pressure test pass this one with flying colors but of course, i could barely do it. she said "i hope you never get glaucoma or you will go blind". (time #3) i dont know why she said that in relation to the pressure test but she did. she kept asking me to open my eye and i told her "i really do think my eye is open really wide so when you tell me, i think im doing it" and she told me "well its not because all you are doing is blinking". like i said, im not doing it on purpose! i really think im doing what im being asked to do!
then i got my contacts and left. good grief! she was not nice to me. i have only ever had 1 eye doctor be nice to me and he doesnt take my insurance so i couldnt go to him. me + eye exams = fail.
today i went to the eye doctor.
i don't have a good record with eye doctors. my eye doctor growing up (who had enormously large ears) told me, and i quote, "you are the most difficult patient i have ever had". true story.
my mom and katie will just laugh the whole time we are at the eye doctor because of my seemingly ridiculous behavior. but i SWEAR it is completely unintentional.
i just really cannot keep my eyes open for the pressure test (you know the puff of air that is so loud and violent it makes you hit your head really hard on the bar they make you rest against?). well today it was so bad with my incessant blinking and watering or my eye that they didn't even try it.
then she asked me how often i threw my contacts away. i told her about every 2 months. she looked at me like i was an idiot and said "these are 2 week contacts. you are going to go blind." this is the first time she threatened me with blindness but they kept coming.
then she made me cover one eye and tell her what letters i could see. well in all honestly i couldnt see any with my left eye. she told me that was ridiculous and my vision shouldnt be that bad in my left eye. okay, well, it is. sorry.
then she had to put drops in my eyes. never good. she told me she hopes i never get an eye infection or i will go blind (time #2) because i wont be able to put the medicine in my eye. i told her i had an eye infection a year ago and had to put drops in every 2 hours and she said she was shocked. then she said she didnt know how i wore contacts because, and i quote, "you are the worst blinker i have ever dealt with". such is life.
then she had to do a different pressure test where she numbed my eye and had to touch it with some machine. she said most people who cant do the pressure test pass this one with flying colors but of course, i could barely do it. she said "i hope you never get glaucoma or you will go blind". (time #3) i dont know why she said that in relation to the pressure test but she did. she kept asking me to open my eye and i told her "i really do think my eye is open really wide so when you tell me, i think im doing it" and she told me "well its not because all you are doing is blinking". like i said, im not doing it on purpose! i really think im doing what im being asked to do!
then i got my contacts and left. good grief! she was not nice to me. i have only ever had 1 eye doctor be nice to me and he doesnt take my insurance so i couldnt go to him. me + eye exams = fail.
Friday, March 11, 2011
tomorrow i leave
for my first overseas trip! and it's with 71 high schoolers... wish me luck, specifically, the luck of the irish, since we are going to ireland. we will be there from saturday to saturday. i probably will not blog until i get back, but i will be checking and updating facebook as often as i can to keep all those interested posted on my whereabouts and doings. so until i get back to the states, bye!
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