The Time Has Come

I can't believe it but the Israeli's leave tomorrow. I'm going to miss Shahar of course because she is a cute, perfect, squishy baby that I grew but I'm going to miss hanging out with Roy and Ran. We've gotten very close and we've been hanging out at least a few times a week for the past 7 weeks. Gabby has gotten close to Ori, she's the Ori whisperer. She can play and communicate with her even though she only speaks Hebrew. It's going to be sad. Christy already picked out a kitten for me to replace Shahar and I told her DO NOT BUY ME A CAT! Haha. So she better not. It's going to be interesting if we stay close, we have plans to visit each other. It will be interesting. 

Work is going good. I like my classes and students a lot. I have my yearly formal evaluation on Tuesday and I will be happy to get that behind me.

Last Saturday I hosted a Galentine's breakfast. I made breakfast casserole, egg muffins, French toast roll ups (too annoying and switched to regular French toast), and crepes. It was so much food. It was really fun to catch up with some of my friends I don't see very often. 

Yesterday we celebrated Gabby's birthday. Christy hosted and fed us and I made a cake. The kids went swimming. Gabby is 15, crazy!

The kids are little germ bags. I swear one or all of them have been sick the entire winter. What the crap? I'm not sure what that's all about. Scott is moving to Nampa in a few months so the kids are going to have to switch schools next year. I'm pretty upset about it and I'm not sure what we will figure out. I think it will take me a solid 1-2 hours to drop them off at a Nampa school and get to work in the morning. I want them to go to schools by my house. I'm pretty hell bent about Corbin finishing out his senior year at Centennial.  Anyway, that's next years problem but it's a stressful thought and something to figure out none the less. 

Well, wish me luck tomorrow. It's going to be sad. 

Piper crocheted this cute coffee/hot chocolate mug.

Galentine's Feast

Back to Workie

Going back to work was good but not good. Haha. My students were so happy to have me back and that felt nice. My 4th period was the most dramatic about it and it was hilarious and made me feel good for sure. I feel mentally exhausted from the school year and it was really great to not worry about it for 3 weeks. I just have to pace myself but it gets overwhelming at times. Friday was THEE best because I woke up to a bunch of messages that it was a snow day! Amazing! Having a 3 day weekend on my first week back was not too shabby! I went and stole my kids and took them to lunch so that was fun.  

We went to an Indian Restaurant together downtown.

Recovery Week 3

What a week! I can't believe I have to go to work tomorrow. It.will.be.rough. I physically could have gone back to work last week but I just treated myself to the week. It's been hard to be pregnant and working this new job and I'm milking this. The rest of the school year will still be challenging. I am figuring out a lot of new things and it's hard, but at least now I won't be 9 months pregnant while doing it.  The kids wanted to stay with me again last week because I'm not working and it feels a little more relaxed and fun. Scott was flexible about switching the schedules so that was great. Now I won't have them for 2 weeks which will be long but at least I won't have them while I'm working and getting back into the swing of things versus while I'm at home doing nothing. 

Roy and Ran really wanted to go to McCall to be in the snow and Gabe and Christy were gracious enough to let us crash a weekend at the cabin with them. The timing was not great because we've not had any snow and of course it snowed on Friday. I didn't think the drive would be bad on the way up but it was very bad. I think it's probably the longest I've had to drive on bad roads. It was scary and stressful. Luckily, no one crashed and died. I took the long way thinking it would be better but it was not. It was longer and still very bad. We only lasted less than 24 hours because McCall got hit with a severe weather warning 8-12 inches over the next couple of days starting at 5:00 pm Saturday night. We couldn't decide what to do but we all packed up and went home minus Gabe and a few skiing kids. He does not get worried driving on bad roads. Luckily the drive home was a dream with very little traffic and bare roads. It did snow last night and the roads are bad so we made the right decision. It was a short trip but it was still fun. My kids haven't gotten to play in any snow this year so it was fun for them to get out and play. I got tons of baby Shahar snuggles and the Israeli's saw snow and had a very short McCall vacay. Haha. 

The roads were bad, glad we didn't die! 

I love this picture from the hospital. 

Piper's first time holding a baby!

Charly was SO curious about Shahar. I wonder if she knows she was in my belly. Haha.