El Segundo

This is short and sweet but I wanted to post some pictures of our new apartment.  I finally feel moved in after a week, but I still have to put the art on the walls.  My beautiful pottery barn shelf is not going up however because it left huge holes in the walls of our last apartment.  Oops!  Not looking forward to that bill.

Definitely time for an actual dining table.

We had to buy our own refrigerator and microwave.  Weird.

 Upstairs landing.  Thinking of getting a sleeper sofa for guests.

Upstairs has its own entryway.  This used to be a 1-bedroom apartment.  I think the landing was the kitchen and the 2nd bedroom was living space.  Our downstairs area was maybe storage before?  Not sure, but we are the first to live here since the remodel.

This little cutie is currently down for a nap.  He is still spending his nights in our room.  Last night he only woke to eat once at 2:30am!  Hopefully this is a new pattern.

 Outside the 2nd floor entry.  There's a small pool and pond in the courtyard.  Sometimes I sit outside to put Levi to sleep because the waterfall noise knocks him right out.

Views from our windows.  Getting used to the airplane noise.  It's fun to watch them though!

Nursery Reveal

     The nursery is just about complete!  I have ordered a few more sets of crib sheets, a white and beige polka dot and one with cute animals in the nursery colors.  I also still need to get a diaper bag but I do have my eye on a few.

     I thought it would be cute to put our baby pictures up.  It might be fun to see who the baby looks like.  I organized the drawers of the dresser.  We have a ton of blankets (thanks Mom!) but not a lot of clothes.  I would rather wait until we know the gender.  Girl clothes are so girly that it makes gender neutral look boyish.  If we have a girl, I don't want anyone mistaking her for a boy! lol

     We also set up the swing in our living room.  After we put it up, we decided it's sheer torture.  You can shut the nursery door and not have baby on the brain all day, but that swing has a way of staring you down when you walk past it and reminding us how anxious we are to meet this little one!

Minimalist Christmas

I meant to post this over the holidays.  This was the extent of my holiday decorating but I think it turned out kind of cute. :)

Grinding to a halt

     There is some serious irony in the fact that my last post was on October 27th.  This long-term sub job that I am in began October 28th.  I was hoping to make it until March 7th with this job but it has been sucking away every ounce of my energy and time so my last day will be this Friday February 7th.
     I hope this week goes well.  Last week didn't end on the brightest note.  I woke up Wednesday with a sore throat.  I went to work, but by 2nd period, I was feeling queasy, achy, tired, and the sore throat was turning into a deep cough.  By the end of the day, I was really dragging, so I called the sub desk and asked them to send a sub for me for Thursday.  I got sub plans ready and went home.  That night I kept getting worse, and eventually was vomiting and feeling feverish.  On Thursday, I called and changed my appt. to see my OB that day.  She prescribed a cough syrup that would help me sleep and was safe for pregnancy and told me to take tylenol for the fever.  I am new to my insurance so I just had the dr. send the prescription to the Target pharmacy.  When I got to Target to pick it up, they told me they didn't accept my insurance.  (I have Kaiser so I didn't know I can only go to the Kaiser pharmacy).
     I tried calling my dr. office all afternoon to change the pharmacy location but they never picked up.  I never got the prescription, but I thought I would be fine.  Thursday night I woke up several times with coughing fits and vomiting.  Yet...I still went to work on Friday.  In my mind, it was easier just to go instead of having to coordinate with 4 different people to get my class covered and plans made (life of a long-term sub..ugh).
     Work was a mistake.  The kids seemed like hellions, probably due to the fact that they saw I was feeling down and were ready to pounce.  By third period, after having to call in the principal to remove some kids from my room, I knew I had to go home.  I called the office and they arranged for my last two periods to be covered.  I went immediately to the Target pharmacy, thinking I would just pay whatever the cough medicine costs without insurance.  The pharmacist told me they had destroyed my prescription.  I started tearing up right there.
     This is kind of a long story...sorry.  All I'm trying to say is that being pregnant and sick is miserable. There is no energy reserve to pick yourself up when everything is going to the baby first.  Daniel was so sweet and came home early from work to take care of me.  We finally got the cough medicine from the right pharmacy and some tylenol so I was able to sleep.
     I need to have better organization if I think I'm going to handle being a mom and a teacher.  The biggest obstacle right now is that I am flying by the seat of my pants planning-wise.  When I have my own class, I hope to be better prepared for sick days.