It’s been a bit since I wrote. Let me catch you all up to date…
~Chloe is 10 months old and doing fantastic. She loves to eat “people food” and tries to feed herself (the dogs LOVE that part). She is almost walking- she takes steps but prefers to crawl or hold on to furniture and cruise. She is the queen of fits lately. She can scream insanely loud over the smallest thing and she even threw a cup at the babysitter. Chloe loves to talk in both English and baby. She says: Mama, Dada, Baba (bottle), Doggy, Any (Penny), Bo-Bo, Rah-Rah (Robin), That, There You Go, Get (instead of up), Ball, Okay, Ta-Ta (thank you), Go, & Cat. She will mimic sounds and say other words but the above listed are the ones that have meaning tied to them. She naps well and sleeps great at night. My precious girl is full of personality and loves to swim, even putting her face underwater.
~Mike is an amazing husband. He is patient, kind and supportive at nearly all times. We argue on occasion but nothing out of control by any means! He is working extra hours and putting extra money towards bills and house projects. I love his sense of saving/spending and his awareness of important life events.
~We are discussing trying for our second baby later this year. I want to have a second child fairly soon so I’m excited despite limited space in the house.
~I switched jobs. I left the middle school where I was and will be in a high school in the district I live in. I will still teach special education but I’m not sure how my schedule will work yet. Possible 1 subject all day, possibly all subjects with the same kids all day. 11 of 34 teachers left my old school. We were a fully failing school and made it to full accreditation despite our terrible principal. She felt she needed to curse at us daily, yell over the loud speaker with students in the building, threaten children and parents and go against ever policy that was previously established in our building. We put up with her, taught our students and loved them despite the issues. They passed and we succeeded but she still wasn’t happy with us. So, we left.
~I feel fat lately. I’m struggling with my body image. I weight the same as I did before my pregnancy with Chloe but it’s different. My stomach feels fatter lately and I hate the way I look in clothes I use to love. Today Mike took a picture of my crossing a street and I did not realize it till later. Although I felt disgusting and huge all day, in the picture I look just as thin as always. I saved the picture so when I feel terrible and am refusing to eat I can look at it and realize it’s in my head.
~My mother refused to come for Chloe’s christening. She said she couldn’t take off of work because of upcoming surgery and her need for all her vacation/sick days. She then took off a few weeks later to weed a flower garden in her yard. She then refused to video chat with Chloe and I one day because the computer was “too far away.” I decided I am not driving 10 hours with my child if a computer is too far away in the same house she is in. I want to see my father but I can’t travel 10 hours to be stressed and upset by my mother daily. My father came for the christening because my sister drove him (he is legally blind in one eye and mostly blind in the other now so he can’t drive long distances).
~My sister is still in the process of a divorce. She is dating a new guy, a doctor from the hospital she works at. She says he is very nice but she also says he is awkward and shy and dorky. My aunt has met him and was not impressed at all. She said he doesn’t seem to fit our family well and seems much like my sister’s soon to be ex-husband. I wish she would find a guy that was good for her instead of good for her bed.
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