Another year..

Can you believe that it is the end of 2013? I mean where did this whole year go?! I hate that now that I am older time goes by so much quicker. I know most of this year I was running around with my head cut off busy with teaching, packing, trying to find a house to sell, not moving, back to teaching and then we are in December already. Geez it is like I did stuff but I didn't. On my last post before the family pictures I talked about a couple things that have been going on for us.
   I actually did not get summer early but took a short term sub job as a preschool assistant in another classroom in the county. So I just got to love on another 20 kiddos for the remainder of the year. Once the school year ended we were full force trying to sell our house. We ended up with two contracts on the house but both fell through. The last one ended up in a total remodel of the spare bathroom. The floor under the shower was well...not there! Apparently the previous owners instead of fixing the leak they just put new wood over the wet wood and called it a day. It was a big mess! We ended up with a brand new sub-floor and tiled shower. Just no new house since our did not sell. We kept it on the market for a couple months but it was more of a hassle than anything to keep it on. Keeping a house show ready all the time is a full time job!  So our new plan is to put new floors in the living room, hallway, and kitchen. We painted the man room a deeper gray and a blue. It will end up a Mustang theme.
   The summer was filled with vacation as well. Went down to FL again to see our awesome friends. They had a house this time so we all got to stay there and save some money. Went to the beach, to the beach and to the beach! Oh and also the Keys which was cool! We also got roomies right before we went on vacation. We were spending so much time with C & C and they were going to leave Tn to go back home to TX at the end of the year it only made sense to help each other out! It has been a blast having them here. It has only been for a couple months but it feels like they have been here a lifetime. It will be sad to see them go back home but we have already planned a trip to see them this summer. :)
      Teaching! Yes, I am still teaching. I have moved schools and grades!!! I am at SMS now and teaching first grade. I was scared to death to start first grade. I was hired four days before school started and had to get the room ready as quickly as a could. I didn't even know where to start with first grade. It has been a challenge but I am learning a lot as I go. I like teaching first more than I thought I would. This year is trial and error. I have been keeping a notebook on to what to do differently if I am at the same grade next year. It would be nice to actually be prepared for the school year for once! I do miss sweet innocent preschoolers. They were so lovey. We shall see what happens at the end of the year. Teaching has been made into something ---by government, culture, and who knows what else---different. I feel like I can't teach like I want to or the way the kids need to. I just hope that it doesn't drive good teachers away because it sure is driving the old teachers away!
      Now I know the meaning of this blog is trying to have a baby and the journey we have embarked down to have one so I can't just leave that topic out. We actually have not been trying to have a baby since last December!! We haven't prevented it from happening we just haven't time sex, taken meds, or gone to the doctor at all. This past cycle we started actively trying again. I watched what day I was on. We calculated when I would ovulate and timed everything the best we could. I do not have high hopes that it will happen right off the bat. I mean it has been over 4 years as it is. Hope is slim and stretched thin.  Infertility is a mean game that some of us play and in real life we all can't get a trophy for participation and go home a winner.