My Baby You’ll Be…

If someone were to ask me last year what my life would be like today I would not mention anything that I encounter on a daily basis these days. I would have said that I was recently single, living in Dallas, working at a new job, attending a new school, and running around with a new group of friends. Not one of these descriptions fits my lifestyle. I guess it goes to show you can’t plan your life out because everything changes daily.

I now am happily married, hang my hat in Owasso, am a homemaker, attend the same college, still have the same friends, and am now expecting my first son in merely 13 short weeks. Nowhere was Oklahoma in my future plans at the end of last year, yet alone a baby!

A baby…can I tell myself enough to realize this beautiful reality? I really have a 15 inch baby inside of me right now? Can this really be happening? Am I really this lucky? Words cannot express the emotions I felt when I found out 27 weeks ago that I was carrying  a child, and in nine short months my life would change forever. I am so blessed and can’t thank God enough everyday for giving me such a precious miracle that will change my life for the better forever.

My son, Parker Kade, will enter this world roughly around the end of August beginning of September, and I am prepared to be a Mom for the rest of my life.

A baby…wow.

Back to School

Each semester everyone who is in school waits for those glorious days off called a “break for your brain.” Whether it is a week for spring break, two months for Summer, or three weeks for Christmas. Who doesn’t enjoy those short lived breaks from a campus? I got the opportunity to have a rather long (four months to be exact) break from campus hell…and boy was it nice! The not so nice part…having to jump back into the reality that your life will now be consumed with five books to read front to back, 20 papers to write, and countless lesson plans…all in a matter of 16 weeks. May not seem like alot to someone who doesn’t experience this on a semester to semester basis, but when you have a break like I did one can only imagine the school overload I am in right now! I calculated all my assignments, and between each class I have over 500 pages to write in lessons and papers….500!!! That’s a little ridiculous wouldn’t you say?? When will i get the oppportunity to watch American Idol, Super Bowl, Eastbound and Down, etc! Come on!! Don’t they know we have lives?? Ugh….this life is officially hated.

Maid in Manhattan

When the alarm goes off in the morning do you ever think about going to a different job? Do you ever sit and wonder just how many different jobs there are in America? There are jobs that people wouldn’t even think to imagine existed that people do everyday for a living to support their lifestyle and family. I want to meet the person who woke up one morning and decided, “Today I decided my career will be a citrus fruit dryer, or perhaps an odor tester.” America has some of the most awkward jobs, and they actually pay too! Don’t get me wrong…we need brave people in our country to be a snake milker, crodocodile wrangler, ostrich babysitter, or even a maid. But who wants to do that? Wouldn’t applying at CiCi’s pizza be alot easier? It boggles my mind that people want to be fortune cookie writers, cheese sprayers, IMAX theatre cleaners, and chimney sweepers. I guess I shouldn’t look too far into it. After all, it does keep me from having to do the awful jobs America has to offer. Plus, it is one less crooked politician, shady car salesmen, or jahovas witness I have to worry about. Perhaps I should thank the rodeo clowns, professional whistlers, wrinkle chasers, and chicken sexers for doing a job I never would imagine doing. If it weren’t for the people who had no goals for themselves in life I might have to do it! I will stick with teaching and business, thanks.

Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice…but the weather.

I have been visiting Texas for nearly three weeks now. I must say it’s been out of the ordinary to say the least as far as weather behavior goes. Usually Texas is filled with a mildly heated sunshine, a hot forecast with a humid atmosphere, cows grazing in the pastures having the sun beat down on their thin fur. The weather is something I strongly look forward to when I visit. This trip, however, has been mostly unpleasant. It has been more like Washington, holding a twilight theme in the sky for what seemed like days at one point. It started out with just a few clouds and eventually turned into a cold, muggy, foggy, and downright depressing weather. The kind that makes you want to sleep all day because it tires you so much. There are no cows grazing, no humble people happily walking their animals on the sidewalks, no fresh Texas cut grass smell. The sunshine that brings happiness to the lonestar state has diminished! So who brought on the suicide weather? They need to bring Mr. Golden Sun back to shine down on me. Otherwise the weather won’t be the only thing being nasty!

A legend in my own mind

I decided to follow the people who think they are legends in their own mind with exciting lives and write about it. My life is so exciting right now I couldn’t pass up the offer to write about it! Plus, I am sure everyone wants to know my questions, thoughts, and concerns about the world. This will be exciting! I might be the new Perez Hilton. One can only hope because he is FABULOUS!