Anna's Preschool

I'm doing yet another cooperative preschool for Anna this year. She is with 5 other kids. We started at our house for the first 2 weeks so I don't have to do it again until the baby is a little older. Anna feels very grown up and was doing somersaults most of the time I was trying to teach 6 three year olds about the days of the week and the months of the year. I got a lot of blank stares. Anna is very much looking forward to when preschool is at another house so she can wear her Dora backpack.

Kindergarten

Elizabeth has started school! She was very excited to go to Kindergarten and didn't have any problems leaving me. By the end of the week she was done with school and terrified of the fire drill they were having on Friday. I couldn't convince her that there wouldn't actually be a fire.

She has 16 kids in her class--8 girls and 8 boys and she says she has made 2 friends. She feels grown up and it makes me a little sad to send her. Her favorite part of school is recess and snack time and I can't get her to tell me much more.

37 weeks pregnant

I'm not sure why I am posting this picture. I feel as yucky as I look, though it is hard to feel too ugly when you get to wear the pink bubble gum dress.

I'm pretty much willing to do whatever it takes to get it out. Luckily that feeling just happened today. When I lay (lie?) on my side and put my elbow right on my waist and put my arm at a 90 degree angle, my belly goes all the way out to my wrist. I'm not sure why I took that measurement.

We finished painting the nursery blue. Wishful thinking, maybe. I have out the car seat and some newborn clothes. And I bought diapers. Babies are easy, right? I can't remember. I'm just happy that I haven't gained any weight for 2 weeks. And it certainly hasn't been for a lack of trying. Pregnancy is all consuming.

Crazy

My life is crazy, which is entirely my fault. The baseboards probably don't need to be painted before the baby is born. And I probably don't need to use up all of the meat in the freezer either. But I kind of do. I feel the need to finally wash and iron my temple dress, which hasn't been washed in 8 years. And I lay in bed at night thinking about the bows I need to glue back onto their clips and the uniform skirt I need to hem and put darts in for skinny Elizabeth. Not to mention that I am homeschooling Andrew part time. How do I make a history and science curriculum? And math. I have been overwhelmed. The doctor said today he will take the baby a week early if I want, and both Jeff and I are nervous about having a baby so soon. I heard the vericose veins that are bothering me tell the doctor the sooner the better. The rest of me is wondering if I will still have time to clean the blinds, decorate the nursery, groom the dog and clean my closet. Not to mention all of the projects I have for Jeff to do. He is too busy to finish the fence. And we are both tired from seminary. I get to wake up to the pounding of shoes down the stairs and then hymns being sung. Early--before 6 am. And then I go to bed alone because Jeff has to ponder the beattitudes at night. And during the night I dream about wierd things like being at the US Embassy in Paris because Anna fell off a two story building and broke her legs.

I feel better. Next time I will write this in my private journal. Forgive the ramblings of a seriously pregnant woman.

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