In sort-of list form. Because I love lists.
Yay this. Gleaned from The Evil FB.
I got my first B in a class this previous semester. I could have probably earned an A if I wanted to speak the prof's weird statisticksy language but I don't because it isn't logical. Its ok because I got an A- in the stats class that I missed the 2nd half of because Firstborn was a month early. I can still qualify for the GTA later with my gpa as-is. I am not sure if I can get a job teaching real college courses because I don't have a master's degree yet, but I think I can get in for remedial classes. But now I really really want to teach GED classes. But most likely none of these things will happen in 2012. A tutor's life for me for a while.
Yesterday I super-cleaned the floors that Firstborn regularly crawls on by getting on my hands and knees and really wiping the floors. Dumb, I know. I have a huge pregnant belly already and I am 17 weeks pregnant. My back screamed at me the rest of the day. While I fumed about how dirty I let my house get I was trying to decide which would be cheaper or worth the sanity trade-off - having a cleaning lady come once a month or find a parents day out program twice per week. I hate cleaning the most, and my second hate is somebody other than me raising my kid during the day even if it is only 8-10 hours per week. So it is probably time for hunting a cleaning lady.
Firstborn crawls, claps, waves, pulls up on stuff, says da-da, ma-ma and ba-ba and loves to feed himself. I think I might be doing baby food for too long and need to give him more table food but haven't found a groove with that yet. This week has been Adventures in Snotty-ness and Stomach Viruses for the 3 of us so everything is up in the air.
A few months back I wrote about the dark cave and a good friend who came over while I was really upset and cheered me up. She is the one who was most upset about my sudden second pregnancy and I had to back off and not hang out with her for a few months. I had lunch with her a few weeks ago and we might go hang out next month at a baby-friendly science museum. I miss her. But I also need to be careful to not talk pregnancy around her unless she asks. We can certainly stick to raising boys.
Three of my other friends from the infertility support group are pregnant. Two for the 2nd time. One of them has just one ovary and she did embryo adoption for her firstborn and we're due at the same time for our secondborns. Another had twins from IVF and just suddenly got pregnant depite pcos. And a third is pregnant for the first time with twin boys after egg donor. And then I have 2 friends on The Evil FB from my 2 previous careers who are also pregnant.
I'm feeling like this one is a girl, but I am fine with either gender. I really wanted Firstborn to be a boy and I got what I wanted then, so I'm very laid back about it now. My sister-in-law told me last night that I am having a girl because I am carrying this one higher than I did Firstborn. She had 4 girls herself and a stillborn boy so I guess she would know.
I'm pretty excited about 2012. 2011 was Metamorphosis into Mom. And 2012 will be Full Time Mom. I'm still kind of scared about what to do with Firstborn getting into everything and actually breastfeeding/nursing Donald/Dawnald. But I also feel like I know I can handle it because for some reason this was meant to be. I also know that next year I need to find more things to do with my time than stew over the Evil FB.
It might be time to jump back in the pool - I do like the childcare at the gym and they like Firstborn. My round ligament pain and back are screaming at me even if I walk a fast-paced mile. But I need to get out of the house. And I am finding some good crock pot recipes on Pinterest, things I can put together into a freezer bag and then throw into the crock pot another day. So, I want to do more things like that. And maybe share the love here. So that was my resolutiony part of this post.
An hour ago I told Dear Old Dad that we better get moving to showers, etc while Firstborn is taking his nap and I am still sitting here typing on the blog. It might be time to go. It sure has been nice to have him around at home this week . That might be where my confidence came from.
Have a beautiful 2nd to last day of 2011. Happy 9 months, Firstborn.
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