Baby On Board

Well, I don't know if there is anyone who reads this who doesn't know, but I am pregnant, or "preggers" as kids say these days.  This will be my 6th week, and my first doctor's appointment is on May 9th, which will be the beginning of my 12th week.  Before I got pregnant, Tim and I had talked about when we would tell people.  I said I wanted to tell right away because I didn't think I would be able to wait, and he wanted to wait until after the first trimester, when the risk of miscarriage goes down.  But on Monday of this week, Tim decided it would be okay to tell people and have them be praying for it.  Last weekend we went to a lab to get a urinalysis and blood test, and the results were emailed to me on Monday, and silly me, I misread it, and thought the blood test results were not listed, and thought it was the urine test that said "positive", so I told everyone that the urine test was positive, but we were still waiting on the blood test.  But in reality, the "positive" was from the blood test!  So, it is official, and I'm excited to go to the doctor and get an ultrasound.  If I get a picture, I will be sure to post it!!  :-)
Yes, Tim and I want to know the sex of the baby and we do have names picked out: if it's a girl, Chloe Grace; if it's a boy, Gabriel Keith, who will be called "Gabe."  I'm tending to lean towards wanting a girl, and Tim is sure that is going to be a boy, but we'd be happy with either, of course. 
So far, this week has been my hardest week as far as sickness.  I usually feel nauseated in the late afternoon, and I have a cold/cough so that doesn't help things.  But no vomiting so that's a good thing!
Tim and I are very excited and happy for this new blessing in our lives, and I will update everyone with events as they happen!!

Ready for the Weekend!

Where is the spring weather???  It snowed the last two nights!  I'm ready for 70-degree weather!

My FriendSpeak meeting went well on Sunday.  9 people came, which is more than I was expecting!  I called the FriendSpeak office to find out how they can all get trained.  There is an online training for individuals that costs $45, but I was hoping I could use my account and show it to the whole group and train together, and the lady said I could!  After our meeting I was talking to a lady that meets with the Spanish speaking group on Sundays, and was telling her about the program, and she was very interested to start.  I will be reading with her on Sundays after the service.  I'm excited to see what God does through this ministry.

Last week I found out about a Christian school that is about 30 minutes away, in Pottstown, and I emailed them asking if they had any math teacher openings.  The principal wrote back and said they don't have anything right now, but they are looking to expand in the near future and requested my resume and references.  I think teaching at a Christian school would be the best place for me.  I just don't handle urban kids very well.  I would like to teach at a school that teaches Christian values, and has smaller class sizes.  :-)  We'll see what happens. 

Well, Tim did it.  He canceled our cable.  At least most of it.  Because of the promotion we were under with our internet and cable combo, it was cheaper to keep basic cable and not have our internet charges go up than to get rid of it all together.  That will be saving us over $100 a month!  And we still get Fox and NBC for House, American Idol, Glee, and The Office.  (Tim is only happy about two of those.)

I have officially disowned Max.  The other night he attacked me for no reason; I was just walking to the bed, and he left two huge marks on my arm, plus two smaller ones, and I already had a scratch that was healing on my hand from when he bit me a couple of days earlier.  I told Tim that I have had it.  We can either put him down, give him to the shelter, or he can live in the basement.  None of those have happened yet, but he has left me alone, so until it happens again, he is on very thin ice with me.  And I will put my foot down and send him downstairs to live alone if he does it again.  I am tired of getting bitten and having ugly marks all over my arms.

Well, on that happy note, hope everyone has a great Friday tomorrow!  Woo hoo!!  It's the weekend!!! :-)

It's Been a While!

Sorry for the lack of posts!  I tried to do a couple of video blogs, but couldn't get them uploaded.  I tried doing it directly to YouTube but my Mac was having issues.  Hopefully I'll figure out how to get it to work and can start putting videos of myself up instead of writing.

Anyway, a couple of things that have been happening are one, I'm trying to start a FriendSpeak ministry at Hillside.  When I went to Brazil and Panama for Let's Start Talking, it was the FriendSpeak material that we used.  FriendSpeak is the local version of Let's Start Talking.  We would advertise lessons in town, and have people from our church read with whoever came.  I am having a meeting on Sunday to see who's interested and hopefully it will be a success!

Also, I took my 7-12 Math Praxis test last Saturday.  I was really nervous going into it because I didn't feel as prepared as I should have been, and the official practice test from the company was really hard.  But my test was actually easy!  I couldn't believe it!  Most of the questions were pretty straight forward and I knew what to do.  I only had to blindly guess on one problem, and there were probably about 5 or so that I had to make an educated guess on.  But I'm pretty confident I got at least half of them right, which is what I needed to pass.  My score will be up on their website four weeks from the test date.  Once I pass that test, I can apply for teacher certification.  In the mean time, I will be requesting transcripts, and info from LCU and get all my paperwork in order so it's ready to go when I get my score.

My mom also came to town last Saturday (in the afternoon after my test) and stayed until Wednesday afternoon.  She flew into Philadelphia and had always wanted to see the city, so we saw all the historical sites there, including Independence Hall, Ben Franklin's burial site, Betsy Ross's house, and we saw the Liberty Bell from the outside because the line was too long to go inside and see it up close.  Since I am still in my probationary period for my job, I couldn't get off work, so she hung out with Tim during the day, and he took her on a tour of an Amish farm, which is something else she really wanted to see, and she got several jars of jams and syrup, and a couple of Amish cookbooks.  It was really good to see her, and I'm excited to see G-ma, G-pa, and Mitzi this summer!

Well, that's all the news I have right now, so until next time (whenever that is! ;-p)....TTFN!