Time for a new post?

Apparently my sister thinks that my blog is boring because I haven't added a new post for a few days. I've been busy! Since I don't have any pictures to add because I haven't taken any, I will fill this post with a detailed explanation about WHY I don't have a more "recent" post.

This quarter I am Student Teaching. This means that I am actually paying the University so that I can work 45 hours each week in a 1st/2nd mixed age class with a teacher whom I absolutely adore. I am having the time of my life, but HATE being away from home all day. I miss Jackson like crazy! The only thing that makes this experience bearable is knowing that I only have about 7 1/2 weeks left and then it's SUMMERTIME!!! Yeah!

Okay, so that means in order to stay sane, I go to bed by 9:30pm at the absolute latest each night because I am up by about 6:15-6:30am each morning. I usually get home in the afternoons around 4:00pm, sometimes later if I'm finishing something at school, but I try to get everything done by then so that I can be at home. I spend time doing homework (which now consists of lesson plans and preparations for the upcoming days), playing with Jackson, being with Parker, organizing our house (usually my piles that constantly acrew), make dinner, then get ready for bed. Monday is Family Home Evening, Tuesday is Achievement Days, Wednesday is Young Mens, Friday is tutoring my exchange student "friend" from Kazakstan, and then I try to relax. Parker walks out of the door as I'm walking in each afternoon (except Monday) and all day Saturday. As long as I'm alone with Jackson, doing anything on the computer is impossible because he LOVES the keyboard and mouse.

Did I mention that I am pregnant? Yeah, so a normal person would already be a little low on energy after one of my average weeks. Then, there is a little girl growing inside of me. This process takes any of the energy that I have left. Let's just say that a new post has clearly not been one of my top priorities lately.

On top of my busy schedule, Jackson has been trying so hard to be a happy boy, but it's difficult when he's still feeling the pain of his two top molars coming down, PLUS his lower cuspids and first two molars on the bottom are starting to poke through!! Holy smokes... 6 teeth at the same time! The little guy has got to be feeling some serious pain!

Well, Jackson woke up in the middle of this post and is not interested in my being on the computer anymore, so I will try to take some pictures and add them later!