28 Weeks...and only 12 days of work left with students!

So anyone that works with young people knows that it can be both rewarding and absolutely soul crushing.  This week was one of those weeks during which I was constantly questioning whether or not I was going to make it the rest of the year without locking myself in my classroom and laughing maniacally at the children on the other side.  At my last doctor's appointment, the doctor offered to have my glucose screening done at the local hospital instead of at the office 45 miles away.  It was a good thing that I insisted I could miss a day because I was seriously in need of a mental health day!  P.S. The glucose test wasn't as awful as everyone tries to make it out to be.  I honestly thought the drink tasted like the HiC we used to have as kids...which made me a bit concerned about the amount of sugar in said HiC, but whatever!  I should get my results back on Monday...here's to hoping I don't have to go back for the 3 hour!

On Tuesday, we had training for the new program that I will be involved in next year, and afterwards I felt emotionally exhausted.  I had forgotten what it was like to push myself to create innovative, engaging lessons and projects.  Now, don't get me wrong; I try my best every day to be innovative and engaging, but it has been 5 years since I've had to create lessons and projects from the ground up.  I've also never had to merge my curriculum area with anyone else.  I can see this being a supremely rewarding situation next year, but I can also see it being full of moments during which both my peer teacher and I will have to branch outside of our comfort zone to make it work.  I have a great partner to work with, and she's ridiculously brave for agreeing to enter into this partnership knowing that she will essentially be on her own for the first six weeks.  Pairing the training and a few other school/work centered hiccups with the whole "about to be a new parent" thing had this preggo in quite a mood by Thursday.  I couldn't imagine having to face the whole year while pregnant.  We will be doing some more training during the last three days of school, and I really am looking forward to preparing for next year.

For a year and a half now, I have been the adopt-a-thon coordinator for a local non-profit group that assists the county animal shelter, and today we had our monthly adopt-a-thon at Petco in town.  Even after all of the mess and stress that I was feeling this week, I was glad to get out and help the homeless animals of our county, and I came home knowing that we had given 2 pups wonderful new fur-ever homes!  June will be my last adopt-a-thon before I go on "maternity leave" from the group, and I know it will be one of the extra activities that I will miss the most.  I know the show will go on without me, and I'm very glad that it will, but I hope that it won't be too long before I'm able to bring our little nugget along to participate.  I know he won't be able to do anything per se, but he will definitely be an animal lover!  How could he not when he will be surrounded by two wonderful fursiblings from the very beginning!

Speaking of fursiblings--it is about time that we started to think about how to adjust our furbabies to our two-legged baby's arrival.  I am hoping that in the next two months both hubby and I are able to shower them with love, affection, and a bit more training to make sure that they understand that there will be boundaries enforced when the little one gets here.  I imagine they will adjust well, but I'm sure they will be a bit confused about the wrinkly, bald puppy once he is here!  For those of you that have never seen our furbabies, here they are:

Now for the baby update:

How far along: 28 weeks, 5 days

Gender: Boy!

Weight gain: +20 lbs 

Maternity clothes: I am still in my regular work pants, but only because they don't have a button or zipper.  Most of my regular work shirts also still work, but the weekends are slowly becoming dress filled.

Stretch marks: No

Belly button in or out: I had a serious innie at one point...now it's not so deep.

Wedding rings on or off: On

Sleep: Still sleeping like a rock...of course I'm getting up to pee at least one or two times in the middle of the night, but I'm not having problems going right back to sleep.

Best moment this week: This week is one of which we will not speak after tomorrow.  There were a few awful hiccups...but today I ran our montly adopt-a-thon at Petco, and that was enjoyable.

Miss anything: I could go for a fruity flavored alcoholic beverage!

Happy or moody most of the time: This week...moody and irritable to say the least.

Movement: I think my child will become either a boxer or a soccer player...

Queasy or sick: Acid reflux was back with a vengeance this week...tums are my savior at night.

Looking forward to: The end of the school yea! << Still this!