Its official

Its official...I will be a stay at home Mom! I told my principal Friday that I would not be coming back after the Christmas holidays. I will really miss the faculty and my sweet little class this year but I know when February gets here I will be happy to be at home with my baby! This was kind of a big decision (more for me than Riley) because I am not tenured in Tusc. Co. so therefore I am having to resign rather than take a leave. I know without a doubt that I want to be at home but it was the fact of letting go of something I was so close to and would have if I had not transferred systems (my tenure). If the pregnancy would have been planned (which really how many times are they perfectly planned, anyways?!) I would have loved to finish out the year and get my tenure. But, after talking with my principal, she made me feel much better about it and come to find out she did the exact same thing.

Thankful to a 5 year old

I have loved reading all of your posts about what you are thankful for. I am a bit of a slacker with the blog sometimes, but have been thinking of what I am thankful for daily. Today I ask my Kindergartners to think about what they were thankful for and we would share one thing each day until Thanksgiving break. I first told them how I was so thankful for the little baby growing inside me. We went around the circle and I got a lot of "my mom, "my cat," "my sister" and then I got to this little girl and she said "MY LIFE." Wow! That is pretty deep for a 5 year old. Sometimes we forget to be thankful for just being alive!

Kids say the darndest things!

A couple of weeks ago I had to be out a lot due to a training that I only had for 1st grade and not K. Workshops and trainings are usually somewhat boring but the one thing I love about them is hearing other peoples stories. One of the ladies shared a story that I thought was just too cute!

One of the ladies, a K teacher from Shelby Co., said she was doing her beginning of the year assessments and ask this certain child to tell her what the letter A said. She said the child looked at the letter and then looked at her kind of funny and stood up beside her chair, holding her hands down to form an 'A' she said in a high pitched voice "hello how are you today?" The teacher just stopped the assessment right there! But think about it...you are asking kids that some dont know what a letter is to tell you what it "says." haha! It is just amazing what goes on in their little heads!!

Tuesday, Riley and I went to our 2nd 'baby' class. This one was on Breastfeeding. This is probably what I have the most questions about so I was looking forward to it. The class was very informative but I can tell you this...I have never seen so many breasts in my life! We watched a lengthy video and of course that is what you are going to see if the topic is breastfeeding! The person teaching the class was so funny (and without meaning to) that is just made you feel almost like you were in 6th grade again snickering everytime someone said the word "boob!" But all laughter aside it was a good class and I am glad we went. I always knew there were pros to breastfeeding but was not aware that there were so many! I really hope that I will be able to do this!

1st Award

Thanks for the award Candace @ The Strickland Family! Maybe one day I will be as good of a blogger as you! :)

Here are the rules for the award:

1)You must thank the person who gave the award and list their blog and link it.

2) You must share "10 Honest Things" about yourself.

3) You have to present this award to 7 others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.

4) Last, you must tell those 7 people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving the award.

10 Honest Things About Me
1. I love cooking but it just really isnt as much fun when you try to make it healthy!!
2. I talk to my Mom at least once a day but usually more.
3. I really have enjoyed pregnancy thus far (well the morning/all day sickness wasnt too fun) but I am so ready to see my sweet girl!
4. I love teaching children (especially those that are underprivelaged) but its not an easy job! If you think so, come teach for a day!
5. I am so happy I will be able to stay at home with my baby and witness all her "firsts"
6. I spend WAY too much time on Facebook doing nothing!
7. I am addicted to online shopping.
8. I HATE Walmart and probably only go in there about 3-4 times a year!
9. Sometimes I still can't believe that I am married to Riley! Seeing that I crushed on him for about 5 years while working at the Rec! haha
10. I do not do much laundry...I hate it! My husband usually takes care of that department! :)

You've been awarded!
Krisha @HouseDivided
Mrs.Joy @Things Remembered
JoAnna @TheFitzgeralds
Kim@lawsonparty of five
Margaret@The Worrell's
Amanda @ McCrory Moments
Angie @ Frog, Snails & Puppydog tails

Baby furniture

We finally ordered the baby furniture this past weekend. I am glad we didnt wait any longer because it might not have been here in time! We were trying to wait a little bit in hopes that his mom would be out of the hospital because the furniture was a gift from them and I would have loved for her to go with me. But she warned us that it takes a while to get in and we needed to go pick out what we wanted pretty soon and she was right. We knew kind of what we wanted so the decision wasnt too hard. We went with the 3 in 1 convertible crib set. Cant wait to get it and put it together!

A great weekend

College reunion!

The two preggos!! :)

Addison--so cute!

Audrey (one of the triplets)
Lunch at Chucks
Carson--I didnt get a good picture

This weekend was such a great weekend! Lots of my college friends were all in town for the Bama/Tenn. game. Friday night Cyndee, Dan, Amy Beth, Gabe, Becca, Zach, Riley and myself went to dinner at Melina's. It was so good once again! We got to do lots of reminiscing which is always fun. Saturday was of course Alabama football! We sat up a tent and tailgated before the game. Lots of my college friends stopped by and it was so nice getting to see everyone! Wow...I hate sooo much food! But...I probably walked it all off as much as I had to walk! I just love when we get tickets and the row is 62! Not to mention, I lost Riley so I walked up and down a couple of times wondering if I was in the right seat! But it was all worth it during those last few seconds of the game...all I can say is WOW! I was really worried for a little while but I knew somehow those boys would come through! Anyways....Sunday, I got to meet Kimberly & Cory for lunch and meet little Carson! Oh he is just adorable!! I have to say being around all of the babies this weekend definitely made me have the "fever" even worse!