35 weeks

Royal looks the way I feel right now… totally worn out!  Teaching for the past three days (after a wonderfully relaxing week off) has been so difficult!  I feel like my energy is waning and I have no way to bring it back.  Only two and a half more weeks until winter break… I can do this (or at least, that’s what I keep telling myself).  I keep trying to be cheerful and innovative, doing the best I can to make school fun for my 5th graders, but it I am not myself these days and it is harder and harder to be peppy!

Everything is going well with the baby.  She continues to move and kick and squirm throughout the day.  Sometimes she gets in a weird position and elbows me/kicks me, I’m not sure which it is, causing me to gasp.  Not painful really, just surprising to have a little appendage pounding me from the inside.

My friend Erin from my UCCS grad program hosted a baby shower/luncheon for me a week and a half ago.  It was SO nice to see all of the girls from UCCS- it’s amazing to realize it’s been 1.5 years since we had classes together!  Here are some photos from our get-together:

Yum! Cake!

Yum… buttercream frosting!

Erin, Cristy, and Kerry

Me, Jen, Stephanie, and Addie

All the pregnant ladies… Steph (14 weeks), Me (34 weeks), and Erin (28 weeks)

I’m also looking forward to seeing a lot of friends this Sunday at a shower that two good friends are throwing for me.  Cami is my best friend from childhood (I’ve known her for 21 years!), and Allison is a friend I used to teach with at AEES.  My mom is even coming down for the shower… I can’t wait!

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