i have wonderful news. i got the job i interviewed for on monday. i wasn’t sure and getting pretty worried. when i left on monday the principal said i would know either way within 48 hours. well yesterday morning then afternoon rolled around and still nothing. so i started to get a little worried. first not to toot my own horn but i’ve actually never been not hired on the spot so i didn’t know what to do with myself. so yesterday afternoon i sent the principal a little email to check on the status of my application. i also contacted the special ed. consultant to get the info. on the other openings just in case. well when i checked my mail this morning there was an email from the principal saying “We are DEFINITELY interested in you”. she is just finishing up my references and then will be sending in the request to hire me.
HOORAY!! now i’m super excited and want to go the teacher store.
i called my sister this afternoon to tell the news. one of the first questions from her was ‘when are you having another baby’. and just in case anyone else is wondering we don’t plan on getting pregnant until next summer. i’m going to need a year to adjust to working again. plus it will be a big change for laurel going to preschool and i don’t want to throw a new baby at her at the same time. i think another year of just us will be perfect. then hopefully we’ll get pregnant again when laurel turns 4.
the interview today went o.k. i wasn’t sure really how to even describe it to spence when i got home. i came away with not really knowing if they liked me or not. there was a lot of head nodding but no real reaction as to if i’m the one they’re looking for. so as of right now who knows. the school was really nice and the staff (well really i only met a handful) were all really nice. the position sounds good. some new and old territory which might be good for me. i should know within 48 hours either way.
all day today it looked like it might rain any minute. laurel and i mostly hung out around the house. after her nap she insisted on going for a walk. we usually go for our walks after dinner but we decided to go early today. we get all ready and as soon as we get outside it starts sprinkling outside. we come back in since i know as soon as we start walking it will turn into a downpour. laurel starts sobbing that she wants to go on a walk. finally i just say fine and we start walking in the rain. now at first it did start raining harder and i thought we might have to just give up, but we kept going and we made it all the way around the block. then of course after diner it was sunny. figures.
i finally finished watching Ricki Lake’s new movie The Business of Being Born and it was so interesting. i think it’s amazing how much women don’t know in this country about their options for giving birth. and it’s really sad that most women will have no choice but to have a hospital birth since most insurance companies will not cover birth at a birthing center or a home birth with a midwife. it’s really ridiculous since they are amazingly cheaper than a hospital birth. i’m not an advocate either way i just think women should have the choice and not be made to feel as if she is hurting her baby by having a home birth. just very interesting information.
tomorrow morning at 8:30 i have a job interview at a local school and when i say local i pretty much mean about 10 minutes from our house. the job fair i went to last week really paid off. i only applied to 3 local school districts. the 3 closest. in doing this i know i was being picky but i just didn’t want to drive that far for work. the way school districts are divided here is very different than in virginia so there are a lot of districts. anyways at the job fair there was only 2 of the districts i actually applied to so i went to those booths first. at the first one, i talked to a lady there and she took my resume. i proceeded on to the second booth. when i was finished there a man from the first booth came up behind me and told me the special education consultant for there district was there and wanted to talk to me about my resume. so i head back over there and she is super excited about my resume. she tells me she has 8 openings for autism classrooms. i talk with her for about 20 minutes with her promising to email and call me the next day.
thursday morning at around 8:30 the consultant calls me to say she has already given my name to one of the schools and they should be calling for an interview. she goes on to say that they do not want me to sign with another school district. if i don’t like the feel of school she gave my name to, then she will find something else for me. i’m super excited and a little overwhelmed with this at first. as soon as i get off the phone with her the principal for the school calls to set up an interview. so i meet with her and the interview team tomorrow morning. so far what i know is that it’s for an autism elementary classroom and they also have an autism preschool at this particular school. the school is literally about 10 minutes from our house. so hopefully i’ll like the feel of the school and position and i’ll have a new job.
the weekend was pretty much a blur. today was spent pretty much recovering and catching up on sleep. i need to be well rested and ready to go for my interview tomorrow. if you can’t tell i’m pretty excited about it. when i’m awake i’m excited about it but at night i’ve been having crazy nightmares about it. classrooms with 30 kids in it, disgusting schools, no help, all just bad situations.
i just want to say that i don’t put anything on here specific about where we live. i want to keep that private. this is why i’m not going to name any specific school districts on this site. if you want details you can ask in the comments, and i can personally email you a response.
Update on the job situation…I am attending a job fair tomorrow. The fair is actually from 1 to 5 but since Spence has school until 3, I most likely won’t get there until between 3:30 and 4. So I won’t be there for very long but hopefully I’ll get my resume to at least a couple of districts. I’m really only looking to get it to the ones I have already applied to as extra reinforcement. And today I received a call from one of the school districts for an interview next week. I’m neither here nor there about it. I want to wait until after the interview to see how it goes since I really don’t even know what position it’s for. The schools have entirely different ways of dividing special education children than in Virginia so I pretty much applied for anything that said special education. Now I have to actually see if it’s a position I want to take or not. But it is a good school in a great area only 10 or 15 minutes from our house.
And I have concluded I have nothing to wear that is interview material. I’m a teacher we don’t wear pant suits to work everyday unless you want snot, drool, paint, food of any kind, or boogers on it.
Well no fifth disease but it has now developed into a bad cold. Poor girl can’t catch a break. She has been coughing and sneezing with a runny nose all day. Fine Friday and Saturday but this morning she woke up with a horrible cough. But today Spence watched Laurel for me so Becca and I could go out and celebrate her birthday. We started off the day at Starbucks and chatted it up. Then headed over to a nail salon for pedicures. Afterwards it was Panera for lunch and then Becca wanted to do some shopping. At the mall I had no intention of buying anything but then I found a cute dress for only $7!! Awesome deal and I couldn’t walk away from that so I had to get it. A great buy for the summer.
While looking around in the internet today for a few minutes, I came across this picture and I have to say I think he is just yummy! And a devoted dad what is not to love.
Laurel woke up this morning again with a low grade fever. I called the doctor and talked a nurse who said it was most likely fifth disease. When she woke up this morning her cheeks were turning bright red. The nurse called back this afternoon and said the doctor wants Laurel to come in tomorrow to make sure it’s actually fifth disease. As of tonight her cheeks were still bright red but it hadn’t spread to any other part of her body. So hopefully we’ll know for sure what this is and I’m hoping it’s fifth disease since it is pretty harmless. I just want the fevers to pass.
Laurel isn’t feeling well. Last night it started with a low grade fever. But there were no other symptoms. I gave her some Tylenol before I went to bed. She slept through the night and woke up at her normal time. When she woke up she didn’t feel warm and acted again completely normal. We went to gymnastics. I made sure I was pushing the fluids in her and keeping an eye on her. By lunch time she felt a little warm so I gave her another dose of Tylenol before she went down for her nap. When she woke up she was once again looking and acting fine. We just hung out on the couch watched some Little Bear. She didn’t eat much at dinner, but she was acting completely normal. No other symptoms other than the fever. I took her temperature again before bedtime and she was running a fever again. Another dose of Tylenol at bedtime, and I’m going to check on her again before I go to bed. I’m just hoping she will wake up tomorrow morning with no fever.
Friday…MNO I totally rocked the house on Pokeno! I won 4 prizes and $22. How awesome am I. Super fun with the girls.
Saturday…eye doctor…new contacts and glasses.
Sunday…breakfast at the cutest little bagel shop ever. It may become our weekly Sunday trip. Great food and it’s a mom and pop shop. Love love love. Hangout around the house. Walk around the neighborhood together in the evening.
Monday…park with some friends and then lunch at McDonald’s. It was Laurel’s first ever experience with McDonald’s. We never go there. And we have nothing against the place. It’s just not a place we eat. But she loved playing in the kids play area, which grosses me out. I hate play areas at food restaurants or the mall. They just make me want to scrub our bodies from head to toe. I just see a massive germfest. So needless to say when we were invited to lunch I was a little apprehensive. But I totally folded under pressure and when you want to keep your newly acquired friends, you don’t single yourself out as that weird mom. Overall not as bad as I expected though. But I did clean her hands about three times as soon as we got into the car.
I’m waiting to take a shower. It’s pouring down rain outside. Once I heard something about being electrocuted through the shower during thunderstorms so I will not shower when it’s raining. It may not be true I have no idea. I think Spence has told me a million times that it’s not true but it doesn’t really matter. Just one of those things I heard once and it won’t leave my brain no matter what regardless of any evidence in the contrary.
We have tornado sirens here but they don’t go off just for thunderstorms. They are used for hail, severe thunderstorms, and when there are extremely high winds. During the spring they are going off constantly which puts me on alert but Spence acts as if it’s just annoying background noise. Spence will not leave what he is doing until a tornado is literally at our door. I hope that day never happens but it makes the spring weather a little nerve wrecking.
Moms’ night out tomorrow. Still not sure if I’m going or not. I’m pretty sure but not positive. Need to make some cookies as my contribution. Spent some time this afternoon looking for some place for us to go for our anniversary. I keep going back and forth on if we will go or not. If I can find a good deal then I think will go. It’s a weekend away and Becca has volunteered to babysit. Free babysitter hopefully a cheap weekend away…really what’s the hold up. Same reservations as always…spend the money or not. I know if we decide not to go I will regret it. I will spend the next year till our next anniversary kicking my caboose for not just going and having fun with my honey.
The rain has finally slowed down so I finally get to wash without fear of dying.
