Things that Scott has been doing:
-applying for jobs in Vancouver, WA
-enjoying his enormous new monitor
-enjoying his expensive/free mouse and keyboard that he got from reviewing on Gamesplash
-working for Jon
-chasing after our little sunbeam, Eli, who we suspect might have adhd
(and yes, Scott's list is a lot more succinct than mine, lol)
Things that I've been doing:
-Every Sunday, I work with Brielle, a little three-year-old girl in our sunbeam class who has autism. I've really enjoyed working with her, and I feel like I've learned a lot. It's almost made me consider going into special ed. Working with her came naturally for me, and it feels good to help her cope with the outside world. I will be sad to leave her.
-I went to a late Valentine luncheon and learned how to make gourmet Cuban flan. It's a very delicate process. The caramel is made by cooking sugar in a pan, but the sugar can not be stirred until the bottom of the sugar has reached a perfect golden brown. The pans must be warmed in the oven before coating them with home-made sugar caramel because the caramel will harden too quickly otherwise. Instead of putting the flan straight in the oven in the bread pans, you have to fill a cookie sheet with water and then put the bread pans filled with flan on that. This creates a sort of double boiler effect. Anyway, that was fun.
-I've become addicted to shutterfly, which my friend Janae introduced me to. I'm making a book covering the British Literary Tour I went on for a month before I was married. It's really hard to cram it all into one book. There are so many random pictures I want to put on there like candy bars and signs etc. I'm ending up having a lot of collages as I slap pages together. I figure I can go back, delete, and refine later.
-I'm pregnant again. Oh yeah. I'm about six weeks along (I think). Lol. Feel shocked? I just figured it would be easier to tell everybody this way. We're going to get a kick out of who finds this little tidbit first. Rick visited Colorado for the past few days. Scott was having such a hard time not telling him. We did get pregnant again quickly after our miscarriage in December. I initially wanted to wait longer, but it just felt right. And who can argue with the spirit? I have to admit that there is a certain disillusionment that you feel after having had a miscarriage. We no longer feel invincible. There's sort of a scary excitement to trying again. I wonder if we will struggle with more miscarriages, or if our first will be our only time. I'm attempting to not think too much about how far along I am so that we can get past the first trimester without too much worry, but we are happy and hopeful.
