Getting Back in the Swing of Things

Apparantly, it has been four months since I have updated this blog and so many exciting things have happened in the past four months, that I have to resolve myself to update it more.  The most exciting thing is that my husband and I are expecting a baby in January!  We are ABSOLUTELY thrilled and cannot wait.  While I am truly excited, I am also a bit nervous as well, since it is my first pregnancy.  At this point I am twelve weeks along, or one week away from entering the second trimester.  I am due January 24.  The biggest challenge so far is trying to figure out what we are going to do with everything in our guest room so we can convert it into a nursery.  Our house has two bedrooms, so we are going to have to find some place to put everything, more than likely a storage unit.  I can't wait to get started on the nursery, but until we get everything moved out of there, we are at a standstill.

Another challenge is how much time am I going to take off from work.  Since I am due in January, I have decided to start my "maternity leave" when school is out for Christmas in December, although technically my maternity leave won't start until after the baby is born.  Then if we can get everything worked out financially I plan on staying out the whole spring semester and then returning to school in the fall.  We are praying to God that everything will work out in this manner.  My grandmother has offered to watch the baby when I go back to work, so that will work out wonderfully.

And another thing, we are NOT going to find out the sex of the baby, not until he/she is born!  Although, everyone I have talked to absolutely knows it is going to be a girl, and my gut instinct is that it is a girl too, we are still going to let it be a surprise.  We are excited either way and will be truly happy whether it is a girl or a boy.  So needless to say, our nursery will be green, but that will be perfect in case we have more little ones that will have to share the room with baby #1.  Well that is all for now.  School starts back for me in 3 WEEKS.  Way too short of a summer, but I am ready to get back in a routine, and it is only for four months!  I promise, with the advent of a new baby, I will update the blog a little more regularly :-)

A Quick Break

Wow! John and I have been so busy the past couple of weeks! I am involved in a fantastic production of Bye Bye Birdie. I have a couple of bit parts, which is great because it's absolutely no pressure and I can have a lot of fun with it. My last onstage experience, I played Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker, and it was a pretty weighty supporting role. Lots of fun, but also a lot to worry about. This is a completely different but incredible experience. I would love to have another leading role later on, but for now I am enjoying getting to relax a little more back stage than last time.

In case you are not familiar with the musical, it is about an Elvis-type singer, Conrad Birdie, who has been drafted into the army. His agent is tasked with writing a song for him entitled "One Last Kiss" in which he is to sing the song and then kiss a lucky girl "goodbye" before heading into the army. It is absolutely hilarious and anyone who is local I encourage to go see it this weekend!

Needless to say, John and I have both been busy with rehearsals. (Did I mention John is accompanying the music on guitar, bass, and trumpet?) Our first performances were this past weekend. We did four shows, plus had four days of complete run throughs. Therefore, this is the first night in eight days that I have not done a complete run through of the show! I am exhausted, but it's a good exhaustion. I have tomorrow off too before a last minute rehearsal on Wednesday and three more shows Thursday-Saturday.

Here are some pictures of 2 of the 3 roles I play.... ( a news reporter and a townsperson)

                                 

If that isn't enough, I was "blessed" to have contracted some slight food poisoning over the weekend, so I had to deal with that around performances. Then today we had parent/teacher conferences. Our school does PTC's slightly different than other schools. Rather than devoting a whole day to PTC's, we do ours after school from 3:00-6:00 and have four a year. This keeps us from taking two extra days to do them and we can get out of school two days sooner at the end of the year. However it makes for a LONG day. I have to be at school at 7:30, so 7:30-6:00 is a pretty extreme shift for a teacher when you deal with children all day, and then have to keep going into overtime for three more hours once school is done! Fortunately I was able to get a lot of things done; some lesson planning and some preparation for our 5th grade musical to be performed in March. It consists of jazz standards and is really going to be so much fun. It also comes with lesson plans for jazz music which I will be using in April for jazz history month.

My last comment is that I simply love the Olympics. Especially the Winter Olympics. It's my absolute favorite. I love it so much I record it every time it's on TV so I don't miss an absolute minute of USA winning medals. I would also like to add that I love Evan Lysacek and Apolo Ohno. ;)

Goodnight!

I'm Back!

Ok, it has been over a month since I have last blogged. And I am truly sorry for that. I have decided to change the premise of my blog. Instead of writing about my job, I am just going to blog about my family, which right now just consists of my husband John and I. All of my mommy friends blog about their children, and one day I will get to blog about my children, and then perhaps it will be more interesting to read! Until that day comes however, I will do the best I can at keeping you updated on the latest comings and going in our lives. And maybe I can get more followers of my blog. Please follow my blog! Ok, after that shameless plug, I'll be going now :-)