6AM wake up call!

For the past 2 days, Grace has been deciding to wake up at 6AM. She nurses and then I attempt to put her to sleep. She will fall asleep and after 10 minutes of being in the crib, she is awake. I let her coo and play until she gets fussy because I want to see if she will put herself back to sleep! I am guessing that she has playtime on her mind! She plays for about an hour and a half then goes back to sleep!

5 Months tomorrow

It has been a long time since I have attempted to write a blog. The other entries were all about planning the wedding, the wedding, and then the honeymoon. Needless to say, it has been over a year and I wanted to try again.
The most amazing thing happened to me on August 15th of 2010. Grace Catherine was born at 6:31pm, weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces, 22 inches long. She had a full head of black hair and was gorgeous.

Now, it is 5 months later and I fall more in love every day. To be honest, motherhood is one of the hardest things I have even encountered BUT is the most rewarding. There are the awesome days of happy baby all day long with naps and lots of playtime. Then there are the fussy, pissy baby days where playtime is scattered and holding her is the number one priority. There are less of the latter and more of the first these days. Some days seem longer than others and some go by in the blink of an eye. All in all, I would not trade any of them for the world.

I am still breastfeeding and am so proud that I have made it to 5 months. I am going to give her all I can. If I make it past a year, I am all for it. If something happens and I can't, then I gave her all I had. That is something I have to learn to accept!

I have always been an overachiever who has a hard time asking for help in any area- work and school. I took the same stance on motherhood. That changed very quickly. I realized that it is not a bad thing to ask for help! If you need it, ask for it. I have a wonderful group of people who are always willing to lend a hand and that makes a world of difference! If I never said THANK YOU, I apologize!

Hopefully, I will be able to keep up on updating this and all the wonderful things Grace is doing, even if it is a blurb!

Exhaustion.. trying to keep up!

It has been awhile since I actually blogged. After wedding madness and honeymoon fun, I headed back to work. I missed the first 4 days with the student- Thank God I have Kelly! I came back on 9/14 tired and jet lagged but I made it through the day! I need to vent. It is NOT the students this year. They are pretty good with the exception of the 4 or 5 knuckleheads. The staff at my school is awesome, with the exception of some knuckleheads. It is the paperwork that I am tired of! I feel like it never, never stops and get worse every year!! I have no problem doing lesson plans or paperwork for students that are struggling in grade level work. Working in an Inclusion classroom, there is a lot of paperwork and it get to be more and more every year! I have no idea which end is up when it somes to the school district and their paperwork... I think I need a secretary... help.

back on track

Hello All! I am now finally getting back into the swing of things. Soon, I am going to post the daily entries of the fantastic honeymoon we went on! I am really excited to do this! I am also excited to see the professional wedding pictures from our fantastic photographer!!! Iw ill uploading them when I get the CD-ROM of all of them so be on the lookout!

maybe a meltdown

First I have to thank Alice for calling me at 7am after I sent her a text saying that I NEEDED her to call me. After a mini meltdown, I got my ass together, counted up the number of each entree to take to Celebrations. 21 Capon, 80 filet, and 16 Veggie Pyramids. I was all good! Sure there was a lump in my throat that we were going to pay the remaining balance for the wedding BUT I sucked it up. I picked Dan up from work and we were on our way to Celebrations to tie up all the loose ends.
Now, a few months ago, I called Celebrations and asked them to fax me a copy of their floor plan when I was getting replies back in the mail. Everything was fine! Now, when I get to look at the seating chart they have for the CORRECT ballroom, they only have 10 tables. The other one half double that amount, mainly b/c it hold like 300 people. I understood the mistake but was kinda fuming inside.
I am not sitting here and have no effing idea where to put some people. I know people do not sit a lot at weddings but this is killing me! I am trying to be nice and sit people with other people they know. I am about to close my eyes and shuffle this shit up. Friends are no issue. They all get along BUT family... c'mon! One will not sit with the other. Let some one bitch... I might kick someone's ass...

these dreams...

As I get closer to the wedding, I keep having very strange dreams and sometimes nightmares. The other night, it was a pretty awesome dream. Let me let you in on one thing- I am rereading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In the dream, we are at the ceremony outside and everything is beautiful! I look outside of the limo and my ushers were the Dementors from Harry Potter...
In the dream, they are not the soul sucking, sadness bringing figures you read in the books. They are pretty pleasant but end up freaking the guests out that have never ready the book (or saw the movie). Overall, the dream was not bad! Much better than the nightmares I have been having!!

Honeymoon Insanity....

If you didn't know, Dan and I are heading to Europe for our honeymoon. When we first booked everything, we were going to be leaving the day after the wedding (aug. 30) and coming back on 9/11 (nice day to fly, right?). A few months ago, a lady from the travel agency called. She informed us that our Travel Agent, Christine, was out due to an illness in that family. She gave us news that b/c of the "economy" our tour got axed and we were getting moved to the next tour, which leaves on 9/2. That would get us back on 9/13, which meant we were missing Dan's cousin, Melissa's, wedding. After talking to Mel and knowing she was fine with it, we decided to go along with this tour. I was overly angry b/c I have to go back to work the next day (9/14) but would suck it up anyway. The great thing about the change was we would have non-stop flights both ways!! A few weeks ago, I get a notice from the travel agent that our returning flight had been changed. US Air does not fly from one of the airports straight to Phila anymore... GREAT! This gave us a layover for 2 hours and would not get home until like 8pm that night. I was livid. Dan called and spoke to Christine, because she was back at work. He basically told her how unhappy we both were and she expressed how she felt bad about the whole tour getting switched and flight craziness. She told Dan to give her a few days to see what she can do. Fast forward til Tuesday- she called and said that we now have a non-stop from Hethrow to Phila! We leave there at 1:05 and get home at 4:20 (our time)...
To make a long story short, it was not Christine's fault all this happened. It was the tour people and the damn airlines! All I am saying is that after all this madness, the honeymoon better be worth it!!!