Thoughts, shared.
Tonight husband and I met a couple that we know for dinner. He is a state legislator who Jff campaigned for in 2004 and she was my Ob/Gyn before I got pregnant (She is not my delivery doctor because I didn't want to deliver at the hospital where she works). It was fun to hang out with them and to do a bit of shop talk interspersed with personal fun. It seems like it would be strange given how we know them, and that they are married, but not one bit. Very fun.
When we got home, there was a call from my yoga instructor on the machine. Calling to see how we were... "and how the baby is." Now this might sound strange, but he has been my yoga instructor for three years- which means that summer or fall or winter or spring I have seen him every Thursday for the last three years. Plus he also teaches other fitness classes that LLC and I would occaisionally make, or husband and I would run into him on our "running days" at the YW. About four weeks ago, I stopped yoga because it was causing groin pain AND things just got a little impossible. I also have been doing any walking I can do outside (mostly) and haven't run into him at the Y. Although he is mistaken about the baby, I couldn't believe how nice it was to notice he hadn't seen us at all lately and to call to see how we were.
In other news, all is getting wrapped up at work. Amazing, never thought it would happen. But if I am there through this Friday all other things that are left will be trivial matters that can be handled by someone else. Hooray! Hooray! Another week would be bonus time for really wrapping EVERY thing up, although I don't know if I want there to be 'another week'. I have very few clothes that still fit, this belly is getting too large to lug around, and man, days at work really wear me out!
Last weekend we hung out with friends and had our first bonfire of the year- it was fabulous. Although I can still smell campfire in my hair every morning when I it wet in the shower, it is a great sign of everything NOT winter. So is the slight garden redesign that was hatched last weekend- I am excited to embark on that adventure sometime this summer. Garden and outside plans are so fun in the spring- it is as though a great new fun adventure is unfolding before you every year as you begin.
Two weekends ago marked the first weekend of clothes drying on the line. It was marvelous to put clothes out and have them dry two hours later. All winter I have dried a lot of maternity clothes just by hanging them to dry in the house. Lack of sun and wind make for slow drying periods and with my lastest lack of clothing, I need them as fast as they are washed!
Many of my students are saying good bye for the summer this week as next week are final exams already! I am closest to the students in the program that I run, and some of them are so cute- friending me on FB so they can see baby pictures and updates, others hoping that I will be there next week so when their parents come pick them up they can introduce them to me... I guess the benefit and joy of working with first-years. If you help them get through the first year of college- helping them create some good memories and personal achievements, they love you at the end. Much easier than teaching high school. Amen to career changes and great jobs.
In more random drivel, the nursery is not done being decorated because I can't figure out what to do with it. You know what? I guess I don't really care.
Today Ben and Jerry's was giving out free ice cream cones (I assume to test out new flavors and get people hooked) so at 2:30 today husband picked me up from work and we went to get free ice cream. Two testers, a good dose of sunny weather, and a half hour later I was returned to work. Yummy- both to the new flavors and seeing husband in the middle of the work day.
Finally, we are working on moving down to the basement for the summer. The coolness, the bathroom on the same floor, and the nice sitting area for middle of the night feedings will be nice. It will also be great to use the space that we worked so hard to finish in an everyday sort of way and not just on weekends.
When we got home, there was a call from my yoga instructor on the machine. Calling to see how we were... "and how the baby is." Now this might sound strange, but he has been my yoga instructor for three years- which means that summer or fall or winter or spring I have seen him every Thursday for the last three years. Plus he also teaches other fitness classes that LLC and I would occaisionally make, or husband and I would run into him on our "running days" at the YW. About four weeks ago, I stopped yoga because it was causing groin pain AND things just got a little impossible. I also have been doing any walking I can do outside (mostly) and haven't run into him at the Y. Although he is mistaken about the baby, I couldn't believe how nice it was to notice he hadn't seen us at all lately and to call to see how we were.
In other news, all is getting wrapped up at work. Amazing, never thought it would happen. But if I am there through this Friday all other things that are left will be trivial matters that can be handled by someone else. Hooray! Hooray! Another week would be bonus time for really wrapping EVERY thing up, although I don't know if I want there to be 'another week'. I have very few clothes that still fit, this belly is getting too large to lug around, and man, days at work really wear me out!
Last weekend we hung out with friends and had our first bonfire of the year- it was fabulous. Although I can still smell campfire in my hair every morning when I it wet in the shower, it is a great sign of everything NOT winter. So is the slight garden redesign that was hatched last weekend- I am excited to embark on that adventure sometime this summer. Garden and outside plans are so fun in the spring- it is as though a great new fun adventure is unfolding before you every year as you begin.
Two weekends ago marked the first weekend of clothes drying on the line. It was marvelous to put clothes out and have them dry two hours later. All winter I have dried a lot of maternity clothes just by hanging them to dry in the house. Lack of sun and wind make for slow drying periods and with my lastest lack of clothing, I need them as fast as they are washed!
Many of my students are saying good bye for the summer this week as next week are final exams already! I am closest to the students in the program that I run, and some of them are so cute- friending me on FB so they can see baby pictures and updates, others hoping that I will be there next week so when their parents come pick them up they can introduce them to me... I guess the benefit and joy of working with first-years. If you help them get through the first year of college- helping them create some good memories and personal achievements, they love you at the end. Much easier than teaching high school. Amen to career changes and great jobs.
In more random drivel, the nursery is not done being decorated because I can't figure out what to do with it. You know what? I guess I don't really care.
Today Ben and Jerry's was giving out free ice cream cones (I assume to test out new flavors and get people hooked) so at 2:30 today husband picked me up from work and we went to get free ice cream. Two testers, a good dose of sunny weather, and a half hour later I was returned to work. Yummy- both to the new flavors and seeing husband in the middle of the work day.
Finally, we are working on moving down to the basement for the summer. The coolness, the bathroom on the same floor, and the nice sitting area for middle of the night feedings will be nice. It will also be great to use the space that we worked so hard to finish in an everyday sort of way and not just on weekends.
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