My Cutie

Video #1: Jac loves to splash around in puddles. This one was at church. Notice how Pack so wrecklessly drives off while my son is unattended in a dangerous parking lot!

Video #2: My big boy can climb up and slide down the slide at Mrs. G's house all by himself! What happened to my little baby?

Takin a Breather

After a week of pure torture with some kinda gross stomach bug, I finally started feeling a bit better and getting my appetite back on Friday night. Friday was Penn's 2nd birthday! We all celebrated by going to Chuck-E-Cheese's for supper. This was our first adventure at CEC, and I was pretty nervous about how Jac would do. He absolutely loved it! Not that I didn't think he would. I guess I was more nervous about how I would cope chasing around my 18 month old toddler as he explored this kiddie paradise. I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty exhausting, but totally worth it! He rode all of the little kid rides and he especially loved getting his picture taken by the little token machines (about 6 times...maybe more) and then trying to eat his picture. He also liked crawling up the ski-ball ramp and pulling tickets off. After we finally wrangled the kids up and blew ChuckE some kisses, we had to call it quits for the night.



By Saturday, I was back to my normal glutton self. Good thing too...Saturday was a big day for the family. We were having Penn's big birthday party and a few more surprises with it. My mom wanted to have a belated 60th surprise party for one of my aunts (she's actually 61) and all of my aunts wanted to have a surprise 60th party for my mom. The whole ordeal was actually very confusing, but worked out perfectly! Amazingly, no one spilled the beans ahead of time and both women were totally caught off-guard. Not to mention, Penn had a blast at his Elmo/Basketball party. I stayed up til the wee hours on Saturday morning, putting together a slide show for them and then had to get the birthday signs ready to be hung. At the end of the night, we were totally pooped.



At least we had a nice day off today, with no real agenda. I took off to the mall with mom to try to spend some of her giftcards and then met the in-laws for dinner at Percy and Willies. Jac left with them to spend the night, and now I'm missing my baby and trying to be productive while waiting (hoping) on Cam to call.



Currently I am in employment limbo for the 2009-2010 school year. I still do not have SC teaching certification (because my certification expired last June). My NC certification is still good, but that doesn't do me a whole lot of good here. In order to be re-certified I have to take the PLT portion of the PRAXIS II. To make sure that my test results are in before the next school year, I have to take the test on June 13. The test costs $90 plus a $50 registration fee and a $45 late registration fee. If you can't do the math that quickly...that's $185!!!!!!! Am I the only one that thinks that the ETS is totally ripping people off? All this is assuming that I pass it the first time I take it (and lots of people do not).



Also, with the economy in the pits, all signs point to the fact that even if I get my SC certification, districts may not be hiring. At least that's the rumor. If all else fails, I'm still on the sub list so I can get my whopping $60 a day if I choose. I'm thinking about new employment opportunities. Who knows what next year will bring? Please pray that some doors open and I have a stable job for next year! I'm scared!

Catching Up

I've been a slacker lately about updating the blog. Luckily, it's been mostly because there hasn't been much "blogworthy" action going on in my life. Things have kinda settled down a bit.

About 3 weeks ago or so, Jac had another bout with an ear infection. We had to go back on the antibiotic for another 10 days. Just as soon as we stopped it again, he started running fever again. This time, only for 1 day. I'm thinking this was just a fluke and I was being paranoid. The past 2 days, we've been fighting with "the squirts" (as Mrs. Gloria says...lol). He doesn't act like his tummy is bothering him, but his little but is raw from diaper rash and he hasn't had very much of an appetite. I'm so ready for him to get back to his normal healthy self.

Cam's been doing fine. For a while, it seems like there was some kind of action going on all the time, and each time, they would turn off their phones and Internet so it really left me hanging in agony. A couple of weeks ago, I spoke with him on Monday night, and didn't hear from him again until Friday! It really freaked me out! I spent all of my extra time searching for news on the web about what was going on, and each time coming up with nothing. He still won't tell me excactly what happend, just that he's OK and he hates memorial services. Thanks babe, now I feel lots better!

Creepy picture of me having an intimate conversation with my hubby...apparently it's cold in his room.

School's been alright for me. Back to work as usual now. This week starts their state testing so it should be pretty dull. Nothing else to report here.

We're just about finished with the Mother's Day festivities. Cam sent me a bouquet of roses yesterday. He also had some flowers sent to my mom and his mom. (What a good boy!) Jac made me a pretty little handprint stepping stone (with the help of Aunt Kimberly). I would include a picture, but you can't really see it with the camera flash. We all went to eat Mexican food for our Mother's Day lunch after church and they gave all of the mother's a rose when they brought the ticket! I was impressed. We spent the rest of the day playing in the backyard. We set up the little pool and sprinklers and all sat out and watched the kids play. Later we set up the tents in the back to practice for this weekend and then let the boys run around inside them. They had a blast!

Jac splashing himself with water. He was cold and I loved the way you could see his ribs from inhaling whenever he was shocked by how cold the water was.

So since the last time I blogged, we've hit the 2 month mark (5 more to go...WOOHOO!). At church this morning, we were talking about focusing so much on your dreams that you forget to notice all the blessings you already have. That really hit home. With Cam being gone, it seems like all I care about is September. I try to rush through every day just to hurry Cam home. I forget that I've got a beautiful baby boy that will only be a sweet little baby for a little while longer. I really don't want to take this time for granted, but as much as I try to convince myself not to rush things...I miss and worry about my husband more than I could have ever imagined, and I can't wait to have my family all together again!