Summer Post
So, it seems as if I post just once or twice per season. I havent made a post since the spring, so I think it is due time.
I survived my first semester as a graduate student assistant for the Music Therapy Department. I cant describe the stress that was involved in all of that, nor do I desire to, for fear of becoming stressed by proxy. The free tuition and monthly paychecks helped with the stress, as did a wonderfully crazy husband, crazy neices, and my church. People would ask me how I was doing, and I would reply, "stressed but blessed."
I took my first summer classes EVER. I now have a newfound respect for people who take summer classes every year. It's crazy! Even crazier when you add a husband, a summer job, and two teenaged neices into the picture. I got an A in my summer class, but I dont feel as if I learned all that I could, and that saddens me. I was a floater, really, and floated my way to an easy A.
My summer job is wonderful since I love the people who I work with. I manage the dorms here on campus as different overnight summer camps come and go.I tend to their needs, make sure they arent too loud at night, enjoy free internet, free cable TV, free meals, and AIR CONDITIONING!!! Like I said. Stressed, but blessed.
Jeff and I have decided to expand our family from 2.5 people to 3.5 people in 2011. I must admit that his biological clock is ticking alot louder than mine, but I blame that on the fact that my biological clock does not observe daylight savings time:). The idea of labor and contractions and ripped perineums scares the stew out of me, so, I have been trying to understand what it feels like to be pregnant. Several women from Africa told me that the pain is a mental thing. Many of them have given birth without painkilling medications, so I am inclined to beleive them, yet I doubt I have the mental fortitude to subdue the pain. I've taken to watching TLC's a Baby Story, Bringing Home Baby, Deliver Me Now, and MTV's 16 and pregnant(I watch this show with my teenaged neices. It is funny to see their faces and talk to them about labor and delivery and...SEX). I'm also reading womenshealth.com blogs about pregnancies and the book, What to Expect When Expecting. I figure that after a year of watching these shows and reding the literature, I will de-sensitized to most of the birthing process, but I know that nothing will prepare me for that first contraction of my uterus. On the bright side of things, Jeff did offer to let our baby gestate in my body for about 8.5 months, then have the little tyke translanted to his body so that the baby could be delivered through C-Section. I dont think that any man has EVER dont this for his wife, but Jeff and I love science enough to try ;)
I survived my first semester as a graduate student assistant for the Music Therapy Department. I cant describe the stress that was involved in all of that, nor do I desire to, for fear of becoming stressed by proxy. The free tuition and monthly paychecks helped with the stress, as did a wonderfully crazy husband, crazy neices, and my church. People would ask me how I was doing, and I would reply, "stressed but blessed."
I took my first summer classes EVER. I now have a newfound respect for people who take summer classes every year. It's crazy! Even crazier when you add a husband, a summer job, and two teenaged neices into the picture. I got an A in my summer class, but I dont feel as if I learned all that I could, and that saddens me. I was a floater, really, and floated my way to an easy A.
My summer job is wonderful since I love the people who I work with. I manage the dorms here on campus as different overnight summer camps come and go.I tend to their needs, make sure they arent too loud at night, enjoy free internet, free cable TV, free meals, and AIR CONDITIONING!!! Like I said. Stressed, but blessed.
Jeff and I have decided to expand our family from 2.5 people to 3.5 people in 2011. I must admit that his biological clock is ticking alot louder than mine, but I blame that on the fact that my biological clock does not observe daylight savings time:). The idea of labor and contractions and ripped perineums scares the stew out of me, so, I have been trying to understand what it feels like to be pregnant. Several women from Africa told me that the pain is a mental thing. Many of them have given birth without painkilling medications, so I am inclined to beleive them, yet I doubt I have the mental fortitude to subdue the pain. I've taken to watching TLC's a Baby Story, Bringing Home Baby, Deliver Me Now, and MTV's 16 and pregnant(I watch this show with my teenaged neices. It is funny to see their faces and talk to them about labor and delivery and...SEX). I'm also reading womenshealth.com blogs about pregnancies and the book, What to Expect When Expecting. I figure that after a year of watching these shows and reding the literature, I will de-sensitized to most of the birthing process, but I know that nothing will prepare me for that first contraction of my uterus. On the bright side of things, Jeff did offer to let our baby gestate in my body for about 8.5 months, then have the little tyke translanted to his body so that the baby could be delivered through C-Section. I dont think that any man has EVER dont this for his wife, but Jeff and I love science enough to try ;)