Update!!!

Wow so much has went on. Teddy officially lives in Seattle now with Nita. He is doing very well and Xander renamed him Franky. :-) The morning sickness has really interrupted my life. I have completely changed what I can eat and choose to eat. I stick to cereal and very bland foods. Mexican & Chinese tend to be my choices for outings. I love mashed potatoes. lol Kevin and I also got the keys to our new apt yesterday. We will be moving in this Thursday with the help of Melissa ad Arland. We are SO excited!!! I'm going to the doctor next week and I'm SO excited!!! I get another picture of my baby and we get to see how much bigger he/she is getting. :-)

Goodbye Teddy

Yes that is right, Teddy will  be leaving us. Unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that we are not ready for a dog. Or maybe we were just not ready for the personality that Teddy has. He started out as a calm quiet dog, but has evolved into a little dog with a big dog attitude. I love him dearly and that is why I have decided to have Teddy move to Seattle to live with Nita. Nita is a great dog person and her roommate has a dog also. So Teddy will have an automatic new brother. In thinking about what's best for my little doggie, I think this is the best choice. And since he is staying in the family, I will still see him in pictures and when I visit them. Teddy is a really good boy but he is just alittle too much for me to handle right now with Kevin and I trying to enjoy married life, morning sickness, and a baby on the way. We have a few other priorities that need tending to. Teddy will be much much happier in his new home with his new mommy. I know Nita will take really good care of him. Now the question is when will he be taking his first airplane flight?

My First Week

I just finished my first week of my new job. It was very inconsistent and there were moments where I was asking myself if this was something I really wanted to do. But then today happened and of course, God reassured me that this is where I want and need to be right now. Today, I was at a school I had been before and also with two ladies that I had already worked with. They are of course very nice and we all get along great!! We did our usual testing which is alittle bit boring because you are basically waiting for your kids to finish testing. When we finished we had to report to the Sylvan Center for a meeting and preparing for next week. The three of us had decided to grab lunch together-mostly my idea-hello I want some friends and I haven't been out with girls my own age in a while-no offense to Melissa, she is great!! but it is nice to have girl time with girls my own age. After lunch we walked back to the Center and started preparing for next week. The owner was supposed to come and meet with us but he got caught up doing something else and so our boss informed us of everything and then sent me and one other girl home. The rest of the girls were doing weekend projects and they had to wait for the owner to come meet with them. After I got home I made some mini beef ravioli and grape juice. A bubble bath sounds super good but idk if itll happen, Teddy freaks when I go into the bathroom without him. I had to put the gate up by the bathroom because he discovered toilet paper and he likes to stick his face in my butt while I'm trying to go potty. Although, the gate hasn't been much help this week. Teddy has discovered that if he jumps enough times he can swing his front legs over the gate far enough to carry his whole body over the gate. Needless to say, he's had free range of the kitchen & livingroom all week while I've been at work. Everything has been good except for 2-3 cd/dvds that are now chewed up and the numerous "tootsie rolls" on the floor when I get home. The super-dee-duper news is that Kevin is coming home EARLY!!!!! He will be home on the 3rd, this Wednesday!!!! i will still have to work Thursday & Friday but he will be in bed with me finally!!!! Oh and also I went to the doctor on Wednesday and got our newest picture of Baby Bartley. At 8weeks 5 days, s/he was moving and kicking it's foot.

 

Thats all for now. Enjoy your weekend!!! :-)

I got the Job!!!!

Well as you can see based on the title of this post, I got the job. My interview was Friday @ 11am. I drove almost an hour to the Baytown Sylvan and was so glad to see that the director was a woman and she was young. For us young people that can sometimes serve as a sigh of relief to be interviewed by a peer. The interview went really well. I had so many questions about the job that she kind of let me lead. She only asked me 1 real interview question and if it wasn't for student teaching I'm not sure what I would've said but I nailed it. She hired me on the spot!!! I think there were a few times I rambled about some things that were not relevant but she liked my personality and she kept commenting on my resume and my credentials. lol So I start on Monday. I go back to the Center and complete my training and then Tuesday-Friday I will be at a school in Galveston testing with the other teachers. The best parts about this job is I get my own classroom. Hurricane Ike really moved alot of families out of Galveston so the school district has lost alot of students and even some teachers. Therefore, leaving lots of vacant classrooms available to .... me!!! :-D I also get paid mileage which is awesome!!! This job may be a hourly paid job but it is the most I've ever made at a job and it's definitely more than I'd ever make at Hardee's. lol I'm happy.

On the pregnant side of things, I had been feeling better, but today I woke up nauseated. I threw up for the 2nd time in this pregnancy and I'm having crazy dreams. Along with the cravings I'm having that aren't too weird. Chicken nuggets, sushi, pizza, bagels, and so much more. I've been craving alot but nothing strange. My mom told me she craved buttermilk and something else. That just sounds gross. Speaking of gross, non-pregnant I absolutely LOVE seafood. I could eat anything from the sea and love it, well except eel. lol Anyway, I had some lobster ravioli and it make me sick. the texture and smell was sickening. I was said bc lobster sounded so good. I fear this event will repeat itself in the future with other favorites. :-( In the meantime I can suck down V8 juice and almost any tomato product and I've been doing really good with meat. No fruits-yuck. Veggies-sometimes. On another note, apparently these dreams I'm having are normal for pregnant women. Mine are very real and vivid. In all of the dreams that a baby was visible, it was a girl. I don;t know if this means I'm having a girl but Kevin insists it's a boy. lol of course he's a man so typical. hehe I don't care if its a girl or boy. I'm just glad we have solid names picked out for both sex. That's all for now.

I Got a Job Offer

Friday after I got home from the doctor I did my usual thing which is getting on the internet and checking my email. To my surprise I had an email from Sylvan. I had applied for 3 different jobs that they had. I applied for Center Director-which I qualified for but was still too much for me, Center Instructor-alittle bit more up my alley, and Teacher Assistant-a drop from where I wanted to be but hey I want a job. What's funny is the job that they offered me is actually titled Teacher. I would be a daytime tutor in a school working with students that need help getting caught up and working with the school and their teachers to make sure the students are getting the fullest that they can get. Cool right? Well luckily I still have questions, because I still have to have a "meeting" with a center director aka an interview. The email was from a director that was impressed with my resume. lol Really? that little thing. Well hey this will help fatten it up so I'm going for it. There's alot of benefits to this job. The #1 benefit in my opinion is I will be working in Galveston which is huge because Kevin works in Galveston, so depending on the hours and such we may be able to carpool. Not that we need to but hey gas is a large expense these days. Anyway I just emailed them back that I was interested so hopefully I will hear something back from them within a few days. Even if Kevin gets a transfer I have 2 options. I can see if they will transfer me to another sylvan in NY or I can find a sylvan or teaching job in NY with the benefit of having this experience on my resume to up the chances of getting me a job. :-)

Hello Baby Tadpole

So I went to the doctor today. I got the full hoohaw treatment. lol I got some prescriptions for my nausea and prometrium as a precautionary measure since mom and Ashley both had miscarriages. I got an ultrasound which was cool. I got to hear the baby's heartbeat and got a few pics of my little tadpole. It was weird to think that this tadpole is really my baby inside my belly. lol

 

I also had to give them some of my blood but after the number of vials that they took I wondered if I was gonna have anything left. lol Luckily my Taco Bell craving kicked in after I left the doctor's office and I made my way to order a #1 and then on home to eat and relax. :-) Our new due date is set for October 6, 2010 so expect a Libra baby!!! Later y'all.

Possible Transfer!!!!

First I want to start with I broke my non-throwing up record this morning. It sucked, obviously. Throwing up always does. There wasn't much in my stomach so it made it a lot more painful. Luckily when it was over, I felt much better. I basically laid around the house today. I was still having some nausea so I played it safe. I didn't finish my cereal but I managed to get of it in me before I moved on to water and crackers. Eating that for a few hours made me feel like I was in prison. lol jk Ok so let's move onto the most exciting part of today... Remember about a year ago when Kevin was working on getting a transfer and he waited for a couple months and then it fell through? Well he kept trying to find someone and we prayed and prayed asking that God get him something in NY or NJ. Well today Kevin got a text from a guy in NY who wants to transfer!!!!!! I'm SO excited and if this all goes through we won't be moving into the new apartments in a month, we'll be moving to NYC!!!! Kevin and I are beyond happy about this but as we know it could still be turned down. Please pray that he gets a approval and that everything works out for us and we get to make our way to NYC to be with his family. :-) Especially his Nonna who is elderly and not in good health. We will staying with her to help her out and she already has an open room for us. :'-) Happy Tears!!!