Busy, Busy, Busy

Well, it has been a very long time, and I intend on updating this a little more often with things that have been happening in my life. My other outlets, message boards mainly, are slowly dying down and *I* think that my life is entertaining.



So last I posted, baby number two was barely an accepted thought yet. Well, now, baby #2 is known as Addyson Vaughn Schehl. She was born October 13, 2009. Ironically enough, she shares a birthday with Kate Walsh, who plays that character that inspired her name. There is a reason she was number 2. If she hadn't been, there never would have been a number 2 LOL. She is now 8 months old, crawling and thinking about walking. No teeth yet, but she has a personality quite like her brother's. They are going to make quite a pair in the next few months.



Carter is the most amazing little boy I could have asked for. He doesn't throw *too* many tantrums. He loves his sister more than I think he loves me sometimes. He is empathetic and just has the most bubbling personality I could have asked for. He turned 2 on June 5th, he was very shy when he realized it was an entire day to celebrate him. Before that moment, I didn't know if shy was in Carter's vocabulary. He likes to play basketball, swim, and rough house with Daddy and Grandpa. Over the past year, he has just turned into a little boy, and I am loving every minute of it.

Adam, I think, has finally found his niche. He is working loss prevention for Kroger, and loves it more often than not. He really hopes that in the future he can take on more of a supervisory role, in which case this may be a permanent or semi-permanent career for him. I'm hoping that once I get done with school, he can go back and get the degree that he truly wants.

And, then, that leaves me. I still attending school; still attending for forensic accounting; and I graduate in September! AHHHHH!!! It feels like I have been working at this for so long, and finally, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have been applying for jobs, but haven't been called for any interviews yet (outside of Kroger). I am still doing the same job at Kroger, and will probably continue to do the same job at Kroger for a little while longer. I have an interview next week to be in the first class of their Successor Training Program. No one really seems to know much about it, but the interview was based on management's recommendation. Our best understanding is that it is basically very similar to their management training program only for people who are becoming department heads. I'm kind of excited. It means that for 8 weeks I would be out of my store and doing some intensive training on all aspects of Kroger. I also have plans to go into management training in the fall (October) if I don't have another job by then. I don't really plan on being there forever, but I figure, I have degree, I don't have the job, I may as well continue to advance myself and improve my resume.

So, that is us for now, I plan to continue to update on my life and the lives of my family. Until next time....

Knock-Knock- anyone out there?

Just saying hi! I am so bored tonight..... I finally feel decent *and* have no school work or anything to do..... that doesn't happen very often.....

The sickness is going around my house.... I just hope it misses Carter..... he seemed kinda sick to his stomach earlier, but he wasn't acting bad otherwise, so ...... now Adam is being all pathetic....

Dance recital went well.... I really miss it.... I was going to help some, but since I still wasn't feeling well, I just watched. I wish that I could teach again! I miss it so much! I miss that excitement of recital night when you are so involved in things! It kinda bummed me out that I am not that involved with it anymore..... I was going to try to pursue teaching next year, but with the baby coming and my school year winding down, I would be so out of it for most of the next dance year that it is pointless. And then if I take next year off, then I will be trying to start my career, I don't know if dance will ever happen for me again, but I guess I can just hope that I can have a daughter to live through vicariously LOL....

A few of the ladies at work think I could be anemic..... I dunno, I've never had health problems before LOL so I don't even know where to begin..... I don't know why this pregnancy has to be so damn hard! Carter wasn't easy, but damn he was a cake walk compared to this one! I am just exhausted all around....

I have the day off tomorrow, I think maybe dishes and finishing the garden.... maybe another nap if Carter allows..... we were thinking about going to my mom's, but its an hour away, and with Adam sick, I don't think it is going to happen.... sigh.... I love spending holidays away from the house but oh well!

Okay, well that is it for now.... night night!

Motivation

I am so not motivated right now..... maybe I'll feel like doing something tomorrow....

my second class for Summer trimester starts tomorrow, plus I have an assignment due for my math class tomorrow. And I don't wanna do any of it! But I will, I know I will, b/c I am as determined as ever to graduate at least cum laude, if not suma, or if I can really motivate myself, I could still get magma! I just feel like this is finally my time to do things right. I have slacked my whole college career, I have always had more important things, and I still do. The difference is, I am learning to balance all those things into a good equilibrium. I have about 11/12 classes left, and I know that I can accomplish As in almost all of them if I put my mind to it. I haven't thought that in a long time. I just assumed I would be that average student until I graduated, and I was okay with that. But Franklin was my clean slate. My other classes, they don't matter (or at least their grade's don't). I have a chance to start new, and I am going to use that to be the best.

Mother's Day (copied from my Facebook)

So tomorrow is Mother's Day.... I'm not much for Hallmark holidays, and neither is Adam, so I won't get anything. I won't be home anyways, I'll be leaving for FL! but I just can't believe it has been a year already....

last year at this time, I was bitching about labor, and wanting to see my baby. I was having my baby showers, and trying to get things ready for this little boy that I had never met.

And now my little boy is weeks from turning one! I just cannot believe how fast time flies.... he is not a baby anymore, he is a little person- a little person that I have to raise! How scary is that? Things were so much easier when he was a baby.... I didn't have to discipline him, fix him food (other than formula or breastmilk), fight him when he didn't (or did) want to do something.....

He has always had a personality, and I always knew he would be a little spitfire. Adam was for sure, and I was, but I was always too afraid to be too bad, so I didn't show it. Everyday, I see his personality more. I see him growing up, getting ready to explore the world. And I just can't believe that a year ago, he wasn't even here. I can't remember what it was like without him, I really can't!

And the funniest thing, that I have been thinking about lately, is just how I knew him. Before you have kids, you can't really imagine what they will be like or look like. And of course, I like everyone else, had no idea what to expect. But for some reason, he is exactly what I would have imagined our baby to look like! He is better than I was expecting, I never knew I would have such a cute or great baby boy. He is just everything I could have hoped for, but never thought I would get or deserve.

I have a lot of mood issues (even when I'm not pregnant, like I would remember what that felt like) but with Carter, they just are nonexistent. I don't yell at him out of anger- ever..... but I do at everyone else. He makes me a better person, when I walk in the door, I see him and I just melt.

You really just can't understand what it means to me a mom until it happens. I will never be the same again. And that, is all I could have possibly asked for for Mother's Day.

sigh.... I am feeling so lazy......

I love, love, love my law class! it may be my favorite class I have taken in a very long time, which is scarily enough making me consider a change of profession---- dammit......

but this damn global issues class is running me ragged.... in 6 weeks, I have 3 research papers (4-5 pages but still....) and a project due, all on Russia- not a difficult country.... but still, that is amongst interviewing someone originating from another country..... and readings, and my law class assignments LOL.....

and I am bored right now, there is nothing going on, I just have no motivation to do it! I am a last minute sort of person- I pop out 99% papers the night before the paper is due...... everytime, it isn't a fluke, I just work best under pressure! But damn that comes with the price of freaking out every week that I won't get done LOL that's okay, only 5 more weeks of this left!

Adam is out doing something LOL---- he better bring me back some ice cream or something..... jerk.....

okay, I'm out, maybe I will work on my school work *snicker* yea right.....

A new quarter.... new beginning.... almost the end....

So, tomorrow starts the next 6 week session of school.... I have 2 classes, global issues and business law.... I am, in fact, very excited for these classes..... they are my first 'real' classes at Franklin, and after acing my first course, my confidence has been boosted to the point I feel I *can* do this.....

I have like 13 classes left, and I can totally do this! I'm eating Lunchables Pizza LOL....

and wtf is up with the weather? It is like snowing now! seriously...... it was 70 yesterday..... bite me Ohio.....

ahhh the good ole' days

Okay- so it was long before my good ole' days...... but doesn't watching Grease just make you want to go back to the good ole' days when things were simple? When guys had cars and girls had sleepovers? I mean come on! there was no internet, which eliminates just that many of the complications of life nowadays! uhm, and John Travolta is hot LOL...... and the dancing- yea it gets me a little hot LOL.....I'm thinking about bed, but I just had to get on and say that LOL....

hell, I wasn't even thought of when this movie was made, but gosh I wish things were still that simple....

in other news, Carter is actually crawling, like a pro- finally! he is kinda thinking about walking, he tries but falls after a step LOL..... (don't make me laugh, ha-ha-ha).... I was kinda hoping that Ocean's 11 would be on TV tonight, so that I could watch it for my project, but alas, it was not- sigh..... love that movie, though! I have to work tomorrow, and then get on for a meeting with my group tomorrow, hopefully that won't last too long.....


I kind of have this urge to watch Twilight- and High School Musical 3- don't ask why.... I blame Kroger..... okay, I think off to bed now!