From Blah to Woo-hoo

How strange that I was nervous about subbing in the high school today. It’s been pretty boring. All I did was basic crowd control or monitoring. The teachers just left work for the students to do, and all I had to do was to sit there and let them do the work. When I sub in the middle school, the teachers always leave active plans for me. I actually get to interact with the material and the students. I’ve enjoyed teaching all the different subjects and learning/relearning so many fascinating things. It’s a good thing that I always keep stuff with me to do. I actually had time to do so many things for me like, among other things, paying bills, working on my budget, researching brain development online, checking the weather for the week (since we don’t have our cable hooked up at home yet), and writing a bit on the novel Chris and I are writing together.

We finally moved the last of our stuff this weekend and cleaned out our old apartment. We are extremely relieved to be done with that part of our move. It’s amazing how, even with all of the unpacked boxes, unhung pictures, and general debris everywhere, I already feel more at home in our new house than I felt in our old apartment. I love it there! It’s nice to have more room and even to be putting things away in a place that is actually ours. Also, our neighbors have been very friendly so far. I mentioned a couple little details I was excited about in my last post. Here’s a couple more: kitchen sink facet that is also a sprayer and new side-by-side fridge with water and ice in the door.

Oh, one cool little thing is that all of the closet doors in each bedroom and the living room are mirrors. Willow Grace loves this! Babies don’t figure out until much later that the reflections are actually them, so she just thinks she has a little friend! We can sit her down in front of the mirror, and she will play for an hour with that “other baby.” She coos and giggles and tries to touch and kiss the other baby. Of course that means that we will have to keep those mirrors really clean, but it is so much fun to watch her, not to mention that it enables us to get a few things done like a load of laundry or eating a meal.

Have I mentioned how much I absolutely love being a mom? Chris and I were talking about this the other day, and we are both so thrilled to be parents. We’ve never in our lives been happier. We were very happy newlyweds and couldn’t see how we could get any happier, but having Willow Grace has brought a whole new level of happiness that we would never have understood had we not experienced it. By the way, she is now 8 months old, sits on her own, has two bottom teeth, is almost crawling, and is just so much fun.