Lady Ellice

I know that you are suppose to gain an average of 8 lbs between Thanksgiving and christmas. (okay not suppose to but hte avereage amereican does). Between the stomach Flu, teh Cold with sinus infecton, and the fact that I am preganant and have a small ga'ould like parisiste sucking calories from me. I have in fact lost 8 lbs in the last two months. This is very weird. It is like going backward. The Dr. didn't seem worried at my last appointment that I lost weight, he was more worried about my never ending cold. (okay I have had it like a week and they can last 7 to 14 days) but It feels like I have had it forever. Brad is also sick, so we have been held up in our apartment like TB patients. James did visit with his wife Jasmine (whole other story) Which was okay. James hasn't changed much by being married. He is still completely sweet most of the time (though I am sure he makes stuff up) then all of a sudden he will just flip and lecture us all on howmean we are to...

Okay this blog was going to be about how horrible it was to be sick on break, Which it is. But on further reflection I realized that this makes it so that I can just lay around and rest and not have to stress about getting up every monring and go to school feeling like this. SO in the long wrong, being sick on break is no fun, but being sick and working is worse. yeah for that blessing. I did get to hear the baby's heart beat on Tuesday. that was a relief, and the dr. said I could take Tylonal Cold and Cough syrup, which has been a life saver as the robutussin was not helping me at all and I wasn't sleeping. Brad's grandmother gave us some baskets for the nursery and for the frist time since I got pregnant this time, brad and I are both a little excited about gettig that ready for our new little one. We go in for a paranatal oppointment with a specialist who will look for things a regular Obgy won't and we get an early ultrasound from them, so we might find out ht...

So Brad and I went to Lexington yesterday to visit DAvid in the Hospital. We drove over there, parked the car in the new parking garage.. then I locked our keys in the car. THat is right, set them on the seat so I could get my coat on and locked htem right in. I could see them, but there was no way to get to them. So we went to ask security if htey could get us in, cause all girls know that if you lock yourself out at a mall the mall security can usually get up back in. Well Hospital security is not as savy. they gave us in stead a number for a guy that wanted to charge 45 $ to drive acriss the street and open our door. when we declined security offered a "coat hanger". since we didn't want to tear up our car, we went up stairs to tthink abou ti some more... I cried. THen I remembered that I have roadside assistance on my Cell Phone.. brad started paying for it after my whole ordeal on teh side of hte road with the snow, and the sprained ankle. SO we call them, an...

last night was our last volleyball game of the season, and my last game til next fall. I am kind of sad I love playing volleyball, but I won't be able to play in the winter (jan) leauge this time round. so Sad there. We lost most of our games this time round but we are getting better. the girls are improving and hte guys, when they are not playing over us and not trusting us, are all excellent anyway, so I think with the addition of Judith in my place in Jan (she was out on Materinty leave this fall) we stand a chance to make some improvements. Christmas, It begins today... Wed. 10- School Pot luck. Friday 12. - Party for just some girls at Erins Saturday 13- Cookie Bake Sunday 14- all three services Chior sings christmas music then next week after a short break, Mon, Tues, Wed, (which all have stuff at that needs to be done) like buy any kind of gifts (which there won't be alot of) Thrusday 18th- bunco Friday 19th- School Christmas Dinner Saturday 20- Sunday School Christm...

Yesterday around 1:00pm we got a text from Brittany saying they had gone to the hospital to wait and see if David was a mathc for a thrid time. After two times of being sent home they were not hopeful. brad howerver was. He said we need to take our groceries home cause we were going to the hospital that night. Sure enough around 7:00pm Brittany called to tell us that David was a match and was going into surgery. We finished watching the UK game (cause brad knew someone at hte hospital would tell him teh score and that is something he hates) then we drove up there. AT 12:00 they called the waiting room to tell us all that David's new kidnney had turned pink and that so far his body was accepting it and blood was flowing through it. Brad andI wen thome then, and at 2:00 Brittany called to tell us he was awake and alert. so far everything looks really good. However, last time david had a kidnney transplant, due to the meds, and exposure to germs he came down with cancer. They are very...

SO on top of the usual, pray for my prengancy that it goes better than last time, and pray for brad's astma and allergies.. I have a few more that really need prayer right now. 1st. - My grandmother fell and broke her ankle. She is wheel chair bound, in a house not set up for a wheel chair, (stairs to get into the house) and none of use can get down there to help her right now. Brad and I have been sick and she can' get what we have, also we can't get out of work, and neither can joel or evan. SO please pray for her. She is tough and will do her best to take care of her, but we all wish we could help make this a little easier on her. 2nd- David, brad's best friend, went in for a 3rd try at a kidnney today. Please pray that he gets this one.

Okay, I jsut wrote a beautiful post about how sick I am.. and then accidently deleated it.. so this is what you get. Ache, pain, throwing up for 15 min stretches while at school, Home, dr. called. Meds, Stomach Flu, rest, fluids, everyone is good with it.

At 1:25 in the morning, I hear a loud crash from my bathroom. I get up to go check on my husband and find that he has emptyed the garbage can so that he can puke into it. After an hour I get him to get back in bed, only for him to throw up twice, then take a shower and come back to bed. the rest of the night passes like this, brad thows up, takes a shower comes to bed for a little whle.. repeat. I was up with him as much as possible, but he also let me sleep as I had to get up and cook thanksgiving turkey for eveyrone. Morning comes, I go and start the turkey, (which looks horrible to the pregnant lady) after a few hours of basting, brad comes down for alittle while. The turkey is looking good to me. Joel and sonya come with hayden (who has been up sick with a cough all night) then we all sit down to a wonderful lunch, brad goes to the bathroom adn throws up some more. he goes up stairs to shwoer and try to sleep. I hang out with my brothers, talk to mom and dad, and nanny ont he...

That is right folks at this point, we shall call it peanut, because that is all it is. A peanut with a heart beat. Of course right now everything looks fine. but then it is hard to see if their would be a problem when it doesn't have arms or legs yet. Just a heart beat, which it did have, which made me cry. Both brad and I are more excited about peanut now that we have see it and seen the heart beat. it is understandable of course that we are a little trepidatious going into this pregnancy and that fear is a very real emotion. We also however are very happy to see that all is starting out well. I still feel nauous, but it is something i can live with. THe dr, said not to take any meds that I don't have to... so for all you who suggessted stuff for the nausia, oh well, I will just have to bear. I will try not to whine so much as I am sure that is annoying. In other news brad has his yearly, up all night cough until he blacks out cough and cold. so please pray for hi...

My day off that could have been better. So I stayed home today, because I have been feeling really badly. Very, very, very strong morning sickness this time around. and this was the first day where I didn't have something I had to stay for after school, or a training, or a meeting to go to .. so I decided I was going to get some sleep. My one job was to run to the post office and pick up a package for brad. I stayed in bed until 10:30 got up had lunch then decided to go and get hte pcackage.. threw on a sweatshirt some pants and a coat as it is cold and get in the jeep. Get there get the package.. all is good... then I get back in the jeep and it won't start. Usually you jiggle the gear shift and it will start. 20 tries later it still won't start. I call brad.. I am still calm. He caan't help cause he is at work, but he is supportive. I call joel, no answer, call several other people (all ones who aren't sick, or have kids that they would have ot load in the...

So it is a good sign that I have been nausous since satruday morning. but it is a bad feeling. Except for when I am sleeping, and the ten minutes after I eat, I feel sick to my stomach the rest of the time. It is not a pleasant feeling. I don't remember having this much morning sickness last time, but man it is like it never lets up. But my mother says she heard mornig sickness means a healthy baby, so I guess I just have to suck it up and deal. On other news my class size has changed again. It went from 14 to 16 to 20 then up to 22, and it has now dropped back to 19.. all of this in about 4 weeks. That is pretty impressive. It is becauseI have hte over cap class and they move alot. Oh well. thems the breaks.

2 new students yesterday. Boy they always show up in groups.

sunday- WOke up high, was going to take a pregnancy test, but I messed it up. It got bubbles in it and I couldn't get a readign..Crash down to low. Then went to church, then to a women's coffee back up on high. Came home and lesson planed.. back down. Monday- got up took a pregnancy test.. high. Went to school.. kids are crazy cause we only have one day beofre being off for election day.. low. came home brad had a game of Starwars.. high, went to meet your match at church for the mentoring program.. high.. came home brad is still playing starwars... high. Tuesday woke up and brad is exhaused for being up so late.. low. Voted.. high.. To Be.. leadership meeting.. high.. Come home volley ball.. high.. lost.. low.. election results.. really low. Wed- realize dthat something I was supposed to have done wasn't.. low.. got it finished before the deadline.. high..wed is my day with no breaks.. low. Wed night get home.. choir.. high.. Thursday-- started high.. school was long,...

So during break Brad put forth the opinion that we should start weight training with our walking. THe theory is that lifting weights, toning muscle and what not will help us loose more weight that walking alone is doing (since that is only marginaly effective.) so we added that during break, and then went back to school. It is wild. Now our schudeule has to include an hour to 50 minutes in the gym everyday but friday. SO lets see if I can recap Monday- Work, Get off work, pick up brad, drive to gym, work out for an hour, go to subway, then drive home and meet the guys for Starwars. which included an impromptu debate about the exsistance of God with our one skeptical, non christian memember, which lasted for almsot two hours. It was needed, but it was long, and DAvid and I had to stay out of it, cause if more than one person starts putting in their opinion then the guy feels threatened and shuts down all the way. SO needless to say Starwars went very late. Tuesday- School, then t...

Okay I started Monday with 16 students. And ended today, the next day, with 20. that is right I got four new students in 2 days. I actually got three of them yesterday and only one today. It was insane. Jsut about the time I got a desk, chair, and books for one, they would call and tell me they are bringing another one to my room. needless to say I am feeling a bit overwhelmed today. Which will pass once I get them settled in and use to the classrules.

All right, It is now fall break, so I will have time to blog. I think. I have already put a bunch of stuff into the week so that maybe hard. but Here is an update. My Back is fine. I played Volleyball on Tuesday, no problems. It is back ot the way it was. so no worries there. On Friday, which was Data day at our school I was trying to get up from the lunch tables, which are not built for big, tall girls lke me, and dislocated my knee. It went right back in but is swollen and sore, and will be for a few days. This has happened in the past and I knowthat It will go away, it is just annoying. Yesterday we faced the past, and went to the "Walk to Remember" sponsered by the hospital, and the cemetary where Hope is burried. This is the first time we have been back there since the funeral. THere was alot of crying, on both our parts. They played some nice songs, read some poetry. Then we all walked to where the Babies are buried. Then we listen to some harp music which was nice. The...

So today, around 7 am my back started to hurt. then my leg started to hurt, and the longer the day went on the more my leg hurt. It hurt less if I was standing that if I was sitting, so I stood all day, and was feeling pretty bad by the time brad came to get me. I took some Ibprophren then got in the car, before we got out of winchester I was in excrusiating pain. it was shooting all the way down my leg into my foot and no matter how I sat it would not go away. Brad called his PT and ask what she would recommed, as we both thought my back was out of place. She said she would give me a free screening. I went in, she made me do some exrecises and after seeing the results declared it a herniaded disk. When I left her office the pain was mostly gone, however, I must sit up straight, I am not supposed to sit for long periods of time, I have to lie certian ways, not pick anything up, and don't bend over forward, for a couple of days, which means no volleyball tomorrow night. Howev...

For those of you who might be wondering I am still alive. I have started to settle into my job. I have a room that is starting to look like a real classroom. I have students who are starting to act like real students and not wild animals that have been with out a teacher for weeks. I have started academic team, which I love but does take some time. School is going well now. I still come across things that everyone else knows from previeous meetings and I am just now figuring out, but it is not too bad. most things I got now. My class is up to 16. they can be stressful, but they are mostly great kids who want to learn. At home, brad and I are doing well. We are still dealing with depression, and I have moved on to anger. I have been struggling with the fact that very little makes me joyful right now. SO that is my goal this week and next, til fall break. I am going to look for the joy in each day. and not just hte obvious joy, that christ has saved me and I don't have to go to hell,...

SO I thought I would give you a weekly schedule so that you know why you never hear from me, and when might be the best time to reach me.. Good luck with that by the way. Monday: Work (7:00-3:50) Home around 4:30-5:00. Every other monday D&D from 5:30- 9:00 Tuesday: Work (7:00-3:50), Teacher meeting til 4:00, Brad's PT 4:30-5:30 Volleyball 6:00-8:00( sometimes later due to game) Wednesday: Work (7:00-3:50) Home around 4:30 -5:00, Sign language class at church (6:00-7:30) Thursday Work (7:00-3:50), Brad's PT 4:30-5:30, then every other thursday is Bible study, and the last thrusdya of the month is bunco. (so really only one free thrusday a month.) 7:00-9:00 Friday Work (7:00-3:50) Satruday: Sunday: SS (9:40-10:45) Church 11:00-12:30. Lunch (???) Meet with my mentee and at least an hour or two of lesson plans. Add to all of this that some where in tehre I have to grade papers, lesson plan, make copies, meet parents, write parent notes, clean my house, do landry, blog, check e...

Okay not a lecture, but three people have expressed to me their displeasure at the fact that I have not given enough details about my new job. On Monday the 18th of August, 3 days after school had started, Brad called me from school to tell me that he had heard that there might be a position open in the county. I called the principal and he sounded interested. He asked me to e-mail him my resume. (I offered to come up if he wanted me too and he said jsut e-mail it) so I did as he asked. A little whilre later I found out that I had not gotten the assistance job that I thought i was going to get. I was really upset. I called the principal from my last school and talked to her. Turns out that something I did to one of the teachers on the council made them that person hold a grudge and he/she had talked them in to not hireing me...I was very upset.. She kept saying she would give me a good recomendation if I needed one.. so I told..asked.. strongly requested that she call the other...