This is the real me.

Q: Have you gotten morning sickness yet? A: YES. Started January 28th...at first it kind of came and went throughout the day, then after a short while, it started lasting almost the entire day with small moments of relief at random times (at which moments I immediately offered up a MOST heartfelt prayer of gratitude), then I started feeling better in the mornings but would get sick after breakfast and it would last ALL day even past going to sleep at night (the only times in each 24hrs I felt normal was in the middle of the night when I would get up to use the bathroom)...NOW however, the past few days I have felt SO much better! I still have just enough edge to let me know I'm still pregnant and haven't miscarried but not enough that it puts my entire life and mothering skills on hold. (BTW with Parker it was SOOOOO much worse! Sick all day AND all night 24/7 for 6 weeks straight! That's 1008 hours!!! Let's just say I am SUPER SUPER grateful that it's not like tha...

You can count the number of seeds in an apple, but you can't count the number of apples in a seed.  Last school year I taught Concert Choir at Meridian High School...I both heard about the job and got hired as the temporary sub just two days before school started. I hadn't planned on teaching school again for a loooooooong time...my first job out of college really burnt me and I loved just staying home with 1 year old son and teaching private lessons...easy life, not much stress, I was fine with that....but then this job came up. I thought well, I guess if it's only ONE class, I think I could handle that. So when I started, I didn't really know what to do. I hadn't been hired yet, but should I start working as if I would be hired?? I didn't know...it was definitely a unique situation...but I decided to go that way. Thinking back, I would've done things differently but you know, I suppose that's normal whenever you chart new territory with little prepara...