Our Sprout is Growing Her Own Personality!

Madelyn's Nursery

I haven't posted a new blog since before Madelyn was born - so, if you haven't heard...IT'S A GIRL!  :)  She's a few days shy of 19weeks - so just over 4 months old and growing leaps and bounds.  Sometimes I feel I put her to bed and she wakes up so different!  Different good.  I'm finally starting to "know" my baby and it's not so much a "guessing game" anymore.  When she fusses, we know what she needs.  We know how to make her smile.  We know when she needs a nap.  Parenting has definitely grown on us, as I knew it would.  Tomorrow is Aug 15 and school recommences but I will not be returning.  I didn't love teaching, to say the least, and I'm still having a lot of inner turmoil as to whether or not it was due to so many different factors that went into my first year of teaching:  we lived in a new city, had no friends or family to help alleviate stresses, I was pregnant, I didn't feel welcomed at the school (by the principal and many of the staff), I was teaching something I'd never taught before to groups of kids who, for the most part, didn't want to be there.  So needless to say, I'll be sitting the next few months out with my sweet baby girl. I don't think I'll want to be a housewife forever - I just need to find something that I love enough that will make enough sense for me to be away from Maddie all day, 5 days a week.  Until that happens, I stay busy trying to be the best mom I can be to the cutest baby in the world.  When she naps, I try to keep up with housework.  If I'm lucky enough to have a sleeping baby AND a cleanhouse, I like to stay busy with crafty things.  I've just about finished her nursery (something that didn't really get underway until after she was born and we knew we had a "she").  I'll post other crafty things as I finish them.  Happy blogging!