Random Thoughts (What else do you have the last week of school)

* Apparently my TV remote was tired of being homebound...because it somehow made it to school with me today...instead of my cell phone!

* My belly button ring is officially out, and other than the initial shock of doing it, it hasn't been traumatic (I didn't get instant wrinkles or gray hair or anything).

* I am sooo excited that there are only 2 days of school left (1/2 days at that)....but...why am I that excited since I am coming back to work on computers for the next few weeks...so it's not REALLY the end...

* Tomorrow I will not only be 28 years old, but Reegan will be 24 weeks, which means she has reached viability! Yeah for us!

* It makes me smile to walk into the teacher bathroom and the water still be blue from Sammy cleaning it yesterday afternoon. I'm not sure if it's that I just like a clean toilet, or that I was the first one to use it!

* All of the things about restless uncomfortable nights that my pregnancy books talk about, came true last night! By 1:27 when I was getting up to pee for the 4th time I KNEW it was going to be a long night! Then came Reegan fighting or dancing with her umbilical cord(it's the only explanation I know of!), then came the numb hands, then the leg cramps, then the hot flash....by about 5:20 I deemed my good night of sleep hopeless and just prayed to catch a wink or two. (maybe that explains why the TV remote came to school today...who knows I could write a book about it's adventures....EEEkkk that's the sleeplessness talking!)

* Taking both your grandparents to the Doctor is undeniably comparable to being on the Jerry Springer show. (hmmmm, weeerrrreee there hidden cameras?)

* Only in a small school do you have to hunt a teacher down at their house to come back to school and give their patiently awaiting class a final exam!

* Last but not least please add a friend of mine to your prayer list. 2 weeks ago she had a grapefruit sized mass removed from one of her ovaries...come to find out it was cancer. After further testing she will have a full hysterectomy, and go through chemo (a type that she will certainly loose her long beautiful hair). Not only is the cancer hard for her and her husband to deal with but the extra blow of being 26 years old and not getting the awesome opportunity to bear her own children.

Lot's to say, and little time to say it.

The end of school is always so hectic! I know I've said that before but it really is! Things are wild around here! On top of everything else I have eight seniors in my room scrambling to finish a paper that is apparently due by 3:00!!!!

Let's see...the event of the day yesterday is that my mom achieved one of her life long dreams. That's right ladies and gentlemen she got her tattoo (WARNING: picture below may be inappropriate for small children). The name of the tattoo place was Electric Voodoo...yeah really! One of the guys that works there, Dean, came highly reccomended...yeah really! The darling tattoo is on the inside of her right ankle. At least it isn't on the outside of that ankle since that is her pew ankle...ok long story...she sits on the end of the pew at church and it is her right ankle that faces toward the aisle...it's her pew ankle...and in my educated opinion you should not get a tattoo on your pew ankle! We all know how I feel about tattoos so I of course think it is a little large...but the 55 year old woman loves it...so I guess it's ok.

In other news: My sweet husband always knows how to make me smile! He went to a furniture store in Brady yesterday to look at a round crib for Reegan. I have always LOVED round cribs, I think they are soooooo sweet! They look like little a little princess bed! Koby went and priced it and took pictures of it for me! The best part is that we haven't talked about this in months...and he actually REMEMBERED! Isn't he just so thoughtful! The bad news is that they are so insanely expensive...then the round bedding on top of that(when you can find it) is just as outragious!!!! We're going to do the regular crib and save the $$ for something else. I have no doubt that her room is going to be precious no matter what...especially when she's in it!

In case anyone was wanting another belly picture...here they are!

All work no play? I THINK NOT!!!!

When I came back to school this morning I realized that I hadn't been here since 9:30am on Tuesday the 9th! Yes you heard me right, I haven't been at school in almost a week! It's been great! Back to the grinding board for 2 more weeks. I have to keep telling myself that I CAN do this! It shouldn't be too bad since the last 3 days of school we are out at noon! I think I'm more excited than the kids!

The end of school is always so chaotic! It's even more chaotic this year because I can't concentrate on anything that I should be doing because all I can think about is baby stuff! I'm pretty much just on cloud 9...and it seems that very little work gets done on cloud 9!

Ohhh by the way. Our little bundle of joy's name is Reegan Grace Howell. Isn't that just the sweetest! We are so excited! It is all finally becoming more and more real! Now we're starting to plan out her room. I'll post a pic of the bedding soon. I think that my father in law is going to help out buying the baby furniture. We are VERY grateful for that!!!!! He's coming in town next weekend for us to go shopping! YEAaaahhhh! I feel like things are finally coming together...and only 17 1/2 more weeks until Reegan's here (give or take a little...but not too much!)!!!!!

Guess What.........

She's a Girl, She's a Girl, SHE'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO Doubt about it! She has an innie!

Koby and I are sooooo excited!

More later............

3 more weeks of school!

Prom was so much fun Saturday night! That is one thing I miss is getting to dress up for an event...yes it's a pain having to go find the perfect dress or tux...but it's just so much fun playing dress up! It was neat being able to see some of my kiddo's all dressed up, corsages on, impeccable makeup, and smiling from ear to ear! Oh yeah, Koby and I danced! It was fun!

it is 10:45 and the water is still off at school this morning. It's becoming a real issue with this pregnant girl! I guess it's kind of like an indoor porta-potty! I don't mind peeing on top of my own pee (or even someone in the fam's), but going on top of someone elses or LOTS of someone else's....eeeewwww!!!
UPDATE: it is almost 3:00 and we still don't have water...Buuuuuttttt...our Ag teacher has brought his class over EVERY period with 5 gallon buckets of water(obviously from down the road somewhere) to pour in the toilet tanks so that we could flush them! Noone even asked him to. I thought it was very thoughtful of him and all of his students that were willing to do it! Thanks guys!

The baby is moving around a lot more lately and Koby can even feel it moving now! I was laying in bed the other morning and mashing around on my stomach and I felt a leg! I touched it and it immediately moved and kicked me! It was the weirdest thing!

Okay. I am 21 1/2 weeks now(almost 5 months) and we are still calling this baby an it! We go Wednesday @ 2 for the "Moment of Truth" sonogram and have the Dr.'s appt right after at 3:20. So HOPEFULLY we will be able to find out what 'IT' is!

So the question is what do you think 'IT' is, a boy or a girl?

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I am sooooooooo excited to find out what we are having!!!!! YEAAAAaaaaahhhhh! Spread those legs little darlin' we need to get a good look!

Crawling out of bed is harder than it use to be...

I can't decide why getting out of bed is so difficult....is it because I haven't been able to work out lately so I don't have the energy, is it because it is getting close to the end of school and I'm just getting lazier, or is could it possibly have something to do with my waist going from 27" to ...an undisclosed number?

I am so excited about school being out on the 26th! I guess I am most excited about getting things done this summer. I'll be able to workout every day (if the Dr. releases me), lay out, do lesson plans, swim, work on the babies room, cook....ok...well, yes...to the untrained eye these things don't really look like 'getting things done'...but these are things I enjoy doing and feel a sense of accomplishment after doing!! Therefore, I deem them important!!

I've been selling Prom tickets this week since it is this Saturday night. High school boys just amaze me sometimes! I have told several boys(with a smile!) "I realize that it is the last day to buy tickets and you forgot enough money to buy you AND your date a $4 ticket....borrow some money from a friend...you invited her, don't you think you should buy her ticket too?!?" (Side note: I only said that to students who were so irresponsible not to bring $ today, never to a student who might possibly not have the $). Some of the boys hung their head, a little ashamed that I had to say it(knowing that their mothers would have said the same thing), others it was a light bulb moment...like their brains were saying 'what a great idea'!!!

It is days like this that I question even more than normal(if that's possible) what would EVER possess a teacher to date a student! If anyone has read the San Angelo paper lately, this just happened at a school about 15 miles from town! ...Coming to a town near you, child predators!

Finally a new blog!

I haven't blogged in a week. I think that is a new record for me! The last week has been kind of crazy at school with all the end of the year stuff....regional golf, organizing pictures for the seniors, regional track, ARD's out the waa-zoo, meetings over this and that....I've just been trying to keep it all together.

Within the last week or so we have decided that we are going to have a garage sale Mothers Day weekend. They are always so hard to put together...but I never regret it in the end ($$$$). This means that I have done lots of cleaning out lately. It is amazing the crap that I keep! Most of it was already boxed up and earmarked for a garage sale. But then there is some of it that is still just hanging out around my bedroom like it belongs there! Uuuucccckk, why do I hold on to some things?!?!

My mother would like me to write about her getting a tattoo...but really I don't think she wants to hear what I have to say about it(sorry mom). I guess I'm not with the rest of the fam' on this...tattoo’s just aren't my thing...mainly when they are in a very visible area. Yes I know that I have my eye liner tattooed on (here we go!)...but that decision was made because one way or another I would have worn eyeliner the rest of my life. I won't ever regret that decision, and no one even knows that it is a tattoo. I won't however draw a picture on my bicep or ankle everyday for the rest of my life! I guess that is my REAL issue with it...will there come a day that you would ever regret that decision? Will there come a day when you get all dressed up, but the tattoo (in a visible spot) dresses you down so much that it wasn't worth the effort?

Koby likes the look of the tribal tattoos across the small of a girls back....and yeah I guess they look ok when you are 21...but what happens 10 years, 2 kids, and 30 pounds later....is it still cute(in it's stretched out state) or just a tacky thing you did when you were young? That would be my luck...me at the pool with the kids exposing my tattoo with stretch marks throughout it....claiming that I had to pay extra to get it to look like that!

OFF THE SOAP BOX!

Have you heard the latest news about The View....Rosie O'Donnell was announced to take Meredith's place.........hmmmm......I plead no comment.

Some of our kids have been joking about 2 of our teachers that are out today (who happen to be hispanic) that they are taking advantage of the "Mexican Skip Day"!!! :) They're not....but it IS funny!

Did anyone see Desperate Housewives last night? I'm not sure if it's hormones or what but I bawled when they took Gabrielle's baby away!