Due Date

So I’ve decided a due date is a very relative thing.  I tried not to make it definitive, but here’s how most conversations would go.
Person: So when are you due?
Me: Oh late June.
Person: But what is your exact date?
Me: June 28th
Here’s what I would rather say…well, there is no exact date because it is really up to when the baby is ready.  It also depends on the day of your ovulation which no one can really pin down, and it depends on how your baby is doing in there.  If she’s like mine, she is happy and healthy and not coming out any time soon.
Needless to say, I may just be a little bitter that I am having to wait.  I am not really a waiting person.  I am a plan it and it happens person.  I am starting to realize that there is no control in this situation, and that they may be the case for the next ___ years that I have children.  It’s a wierd feeling, but one I better get used.
So happy long walks, spicy food, sex, bouncing on ab balls, and doing yoga squats to me!  Cheers.

Hiking her out!

This was an attempt to get labor going one day before my due date...it didn't work!

Bittersweet

So, I am a teacher, in the literal sense of the word.  I teach kindergarten at a public school in Renton.  Today was the last day of school.  For some reason this year’s last day caught up to me without the usual anticipation, excitement, and longing.  Maybe it is because I have this OTHER impending date that I have been so focused on, or maybe it is because our lovely Seattle sunshine hasn’t shown herself lately.  Who knows, but as I sit here and reflect on the year, I get that old familiar feeling.  Bittersweet.  A year of hard work, triumphant moments, tough days, breakthroughs and set backs all done and over with.  Packaged up and sent off as the 2010-2011 school year.  I have my token class picture lined up on my wall and then my mind begins to plan for how to do things even better next year.  24 kiddoes sent off into the world…will they be back at our school, will we maintain our connection?  All the questions and worries about each child, and then looking on to starting over with new relationships next year.  Bittersweet.
Tomorrow I will go in, finish cleaning up my classroom, take down all the learning we did, wipe off the posters and throw out the used materials.  Check out.  This year marks a mile stone for me.  It is the last year I will be closing up shop as just a teacher, daughter and a wife.  Next year; teacher, wife, daughter and mom…

Welcome!

Thanks for checking us out.  I decided that I might try my hand at writing, all the while documenting this new being that is coming our way, AND sharing pictures and news with family and friends.  3 birds with one stone?
I am currently 38.5 weeks pregnant and slowly coming to the realization that I am no longer in control.  Who is, you ask?  A tiny little being named Sawyer who will come out when she is good and ready!
This has been a fun, exciting and new journey for both Lance and I.  Who knew we would be in a place where the terms mucous plug and effacement would become a part of our everyday vocabulary, just to pick a few.
It is an exciting time and my favorite part is talking to the people who surround me about their birth stories, the joys that their babies bring and the trials that can ensue.
So, again welcome to our little adventure, I hope you enjoy the ride.