I'm Thankful

This little girl and I are having so much fun! We wake up about 6:30 (varies between 6:00 and 7:00) and have a bottle/coffee and watch the news. She gets sleepy around 7:30-8ish and sleeps for an hour or so. I either sleep too or eat some breakfast/laundry/dishes. Around 9:30 she eats some babyfood. I have been making my own, but she prefers gerbers. When I embarked on the DIY Babyfood Jared asked "are you trying to make her loose weight?" Reason #4327 I don't cook. We play on the floor/pet (torture) Molly/look in the mirror/watch Wonder Pets or Today show. Have a bottle around 10 and by 11 she's ready for another nap! Noon is lunch time for Momma and baby gets to play in the exersaucer/door jumper/floor. We read books, eat some more baby food/ go to sugars house/ play with Lauren & Kennedy and nap around 2. Ideally she sleeps from 2-4 but sometimes its 3-5 or just an hour nap. Then we swim/eat/get ready for bed! Bedtime depends on if we slept till 4 or 5 or not at all. If we are super sleepy we start bath around 6:15. If we slept later we start it at 6:45. Bed time is 7-7:30. If she sleeps good during the day, bedtime is easier. I'm thankful WE SLEEP! and eat and are happy most of the time. I'm lucky to have had the summer off. I LOVE my job. I LOVE what I teach and the people I teach with. They have helped me alot as a teacher but more as a person and have been a wonderful support system for me. With that being said August 17 (first day back) will be SO HARD! I was ready to go back after maternity leave. I had established relationships with the kids and was anxious to get back to them, Hadley was fussy and not sleeping, I was having some other issues
(long story that is being fixed and will be a post soon) and work was where I could control things and knew what I was doing unlike with a baby. But we have had SO MUCH FUN this summer. I am torn. Its not a possibility to stay home right now. But I 100% want to, but I 100% want to go back to school.




Today Sugar (my mom) and I took Hadley and Kennedy to Pittsburg (Texas). We moved there in the second grade and stayed till seventh grade. It was a great/small/mainstreet/farming/pilgrams pride oriented town. We had a ball growing up there and are hoping my parents retire there with cows. This is the only picture we took today. We met people for lunch then walked up and down main street saying hello. The picture is of Glenda. She was my Dads secretary when he was superintendent there. This past year Glenda and her Daughter Buffy were working in the garden and Buffy had a massive heart attack. Within a few hours time span Glenda had a major heart attack also. Buffy died leaving behind three small girls. The youngest is in the picture. They are all heart broken and trying to piece their lives back together. Its a true testament to family and God that people are able to rely on each other and their faith to pull together, rally and survive. As we were pulling away from her house my Mom said "You don't get over loosing a child, its not supposed to happen that way." Just made me realize how lucky I am and my family has been. We have had our share of heartbreak and struggles but it nothing compared to the suffering others face. So I'm putting out to the universe "I'm Thankful" Thankful for my family, friends, job, country and all of the above.