In Case They Ever Wonder

My favorite job I've ever had was teaching second grade. I always suspected I was born to be a mother, but I didn't know until after college that I was also born to be a teacher. Thankfully, I discovered it in time to have four amazing years at a wonderful school teaching the most precious children from families that became dear to me. I can still name each of my second grade students, and I vividly remember all thirteen of my first class of second graders. Several of them I still know and love today. In just a couple of weeks, my first class of second graders leaves for college. I'm still not quite sure how that is possible. In that same couple of weeks, my first baby will head to second grade. I'm not sure how that is possible either, but what I'm more concerned about is the fact that all I did was blink my eyes, move a couple of times, change a few hundred diapers, and teach a child to read in the time between that first day of teaching second grade and the time...

If this blog could have "talked" this February without me having the mental energy to form coherent thoughts or the physical strength to type them out, it would have had quite a bit to say. Ironically, the times when my blog is most silent are the very times when there is little silence to be found in our home! In fact, my posting has been pretty light since the new year began. So for those who are counting... Number of blog posts in February (before this one): 1. Number of blog posts so far in 2011: 4. Well, if the blog could have talked on its own, there are a number of things it would have told of: parties, parties, and a couple more parties - celebrations of weddings, birthdays and babies. You name it, we've celebrated it. Number of parties: at least three but up to five, depending on your definition of a party. a seemingly-unending cycle of sickness, hot fevers, coughs, runny noses, and the dreaded ear infections. Not a week has gone by since January 17 when I haven...