The Bump

35 weeks

Being 34 weeks pregnant...

makes me want to:

1) crush ice with my teeth something fierce (also I have to restrain myself from sneaking a swipe of snow and jamming it in my mouth whenever I am outside)

2) organize everything in the apartment to an obsessive degree (is it weird I have created a catalogue of everything I own and planned exactly where it will go in the house?)

3) soak in the tub every night while I stare at my tummy to see the baby move

The Big Exam

My old grade three class have been in school for a week now and I really miss them. I felt ready to go back to the portable and keep teaching after the holidays ended but the other teacher is back from her maternity leave and so it is time for me to take mine. I have to get ready for a move and a baby within the next 5-7 weeks and while I feel superbly confident teaching a class of twenty-four eight year olds, I do not feel confident in my knowledge or skill regarding caring for a newborn. I have been so busy with teaching I hadn't really slowed down to notice how stealthily the due date was approaching- not until I found myself standing in a delivery room (during a prenatal class tour) at the hospital on Saturday. I admit, I started to feel just a tinge of something like panic. So I will be cramming for a baby, or at least studying baby books feels a little that way, until the big "exam" on March 2.

Here are a few of my teaching highlights from the past four months: