April 21

Today was a blah day for me most of the day. I am naturally a pretty introverted person and so when I get to spend a lot of time with a lot of people I have to back away for a little while and spend some time alone. Today was that day for me. I stayed in my classroom during conferences and lunch and watched The Queen (for the 6th time this week) and cleaned my desk. I know I hurt people's feelings, but it was unintentional and I tried to explain what I was doing so everything would be okay.

After school, I met Dacey, Trisha, and Trisha's daughters Madalyn and Jaley at Chuy's for dinner. The girls are hilarious and we spent a lot of time trying to get Maddie to shake her booty (she's 2 and Haley's 4).

Dacey and I headed to Starbucks and while I was on my way there I GOT TO TALK TO MEREDITH!!! This was very exciting for me because I got to hear all about Madalyn's birth from her Mama (although I was also enjoying reading about it on Adrienne's blog). It was wonderful to hear all about it (even though most of it sounds pretty horrible) I still love it.

I love hearing about births and watching them on the discovery channel. I think I should be a nurse for my next career and help out in labor and delivery...actually, I would work at a birthing center as a midwife...much more my style. I'm really content right now with raising other people's kids...I teach at a Title I school so for some of them, we are the only parents they have...so I don't know if I would ever want to have any of my own. I am a little baby-crazy though right now and everyone is pregnant. By everyone, I mean all of the student teachers on our campus who I'm pretty sure have family planned themselves to have the baby this summer before they start teaching in the fall. I'm not kidding...a ton of preggos walking around. We'll see...I don't know what God has in store for me yet, but I do know it will definitely involve children in some capacity. I love them and love working with them and helping them develop their gifts and personalities.