01/11/2013

I feel like I have hit a wall of exhaustion with this pregnancy. Was I ever so tired with my other 2?

I am huge, I am measuring at 35-36 weeks by now… I feel frumpy and unpretty. You know it is a horrible feeling.

Tomorrow is my baby lunch. I am excited to see everyone, and to have fun. It will be good.

I am so graeful for my sister. She knew how frumpy I felt, and she took me out tonight and got me a new shirt that actually fits. I love her for it. I can’t even tell you how happy it makes me.

We look for flower girl dresses tomorrow as well. Excitement no?

We are still working on the school thing for her…. We will get there, the latest is they don’t feel I am a good fit to voluneer in the classroom… Really?

I think homeschooling maybe better, but with me being this pregnant it is a daunting thought…

I will have pictures from tomorrow. As long as I am not completely exhausted all should be good.

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I don’t know how many people you know in your area or if you’d be able to make connections.. I know you’ve mentioned the thought of starting a school (can’t remember what term you used). What if you found some moms (1 or 2 or 5 or more) who are homeschooling and you all shared the responsibilities? Maybe one of you can watch the kids that are too young for school. One can do math and science. One

can focus on reading and language arts… OR something like that, anyway. Combining forces so it isn’t so overwhelming for one parent to do on his or her own. I know there are some homescshooling co-ops here and from what I’ve heard, they start around middle school.. but I don’t see why it couldn’t be done sooner. Even if you decide to pull her out of K and start with 1st grade. Plenty of kids who

don’t go to preschool and kindergarten do just fine academically.

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January 12, 2013

For volunteers, they typically want the high-energy moms that have a strong personality that isn’t confrontational or go against their thoughts and beliefs, and who isn’t distracted. Not to say that you’re confrontational, but they probably see that you’re very pregnant and you have a small toddler already, and since typically younger siblings can’t come during volunteer times, they just don’t

to overwhelm you with the amount of leaning teachers do on their classroom volunteers, or burden you with having to find a caregiver for two small babies. They probably also don’t want to risk you needing to feed the small baby there (and having to explain breastfeeding), as well as typically kids behave better/differently when their parents are in the classroom. They may think your presence

undermines the teacher’s authority. Honestly, I don’t know. I hope that you find an arrangement that works with your kid’s needs as well as your own needs.

I hope you had a wonderful lunch! I am sending out a rather decent sized box to you probably Monday. Let me know when you get it and if you need any more. 🙂