Just a quick note

Tomorrow is the last day of summer school, and I'm almost as ready for it to be over as I am at the end of the regular school year. It's more taxing this year than I remember last year being. I had to remove the kid with no pencil earlier this week. He got a one day suspension. He didn't bring a pencil for 5 out of 15 days and he can't understand why he failed. I thought the pencil example really characterized his whole school philosophy: "Isn't just showing up enough???" Nope. Not by a long shot.

The baby is doing well. We got to hear the heartbeat again yesterday. I'm constantly rotating between terror, excitement, and numbness. Until I find out the sex and feel the first kick, I think I'm going to continue to feel some sort of disassociation. It's like it's all happening to an alternate version of me. I'm told that this is all normal, so I'm just trying to enjoy it.

My mother-in-law called me and offered to take me maternity clothes shopping this weekend. She offered to bring the credit card. I was planning on going anyway, so I'm up for it. I'll probably buy most of my clothes myself. I'm already indebted to them for so much. I don't want to let myself get into the habit of expecting certain things. My husband does that enough for both of us (it's both adorable and infuriating when he pouts because they didn't offer to buy him whatever it is he is currently obsessing over, most recently it was laser eye surgery) lol.

I've got about 3 1/2 weeks before school starts again and I've got a lot to do. I need to organize the basement, my office, our kitchen, the future nursery. The entire house could use a good top to bottom scrub down too. Not to mention vacation and put together a maternity wardrobe that will be okay for back to school and casual. Also, I'd like to get items that can transition from fall to winter so that I don't have to spend too much money.
Of course, there will be lesson planning, brainstorming and meetings in there too LOL.

We start Danger into training on Saturday. I have a feeling the conversation will go like this:

• Trainer: We think training will solve your dogs separation anxiety, thereby allowing you to leave him out of the crate without him destroying things or urinating in the house.
• Me: How much?
• Trainer: Too much
• Me: Okay, how soon can we start, and tell me about the program where you keep him for two weeks and train him like a police dog,.

In closing, life is good. Vacation in two weeks. Baby in six months. And most importantly, I'm spending too much time playing amatuer psychologist to myself.