what i'm loving right now...

(las rakas- Panamanian city slang for people from the ghetto, whose stigma they are trying to remove)

I really feel like the last 4 months have been a whirlwind...I finished the first part of my Professional Certification yesterday! We don't meet again until September, so that gives me time to relax. I wrote my last 2 IEPs of the year and still have meetings, but at least most of the paperwork is done. I am also done with my first trimester and feeling like my energy is increasing. I have been able to cook more and have been to pick up some old knitting projects.

Topher has been trying to work more and is at work today. I am relaxing at home today and it feels like a huge weight has been lifted from me. Next week we are going to see the Storm on Tuesday night, they are undefeated so far! Then we are going to a Sounders game on Wednesday night. They are playing the BOCA Juniors, the very popular Argentinian futbol team. Thursday night we have our first Centering Pregnancy class and in between all of that I have an IEP meeting and at least one placement meeting. I am looking forward to the end of the year like I have never before.

up early, due to the dog and my Pro-Cert...

Topher took over the other blog, which is fine, but I wasn't done. Here are some photos to go along with the text.

Here is the nursery from our bedroom (check out our lovely new Shaker rocker):


And here is the crib (Sustainably farmed wood and Eco-friendly/non-toxic):

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head is urging me to be myself but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices...

Topher is putting together the crib. I am trying to keep Leo (the dog we are dog sitting) from licking his face while he is trying to screw in bolts. It is a beautiful weekend in Seattle. Yesterday we made coffee cake and had that and some incredible strawberries for breakfast. We took Leo to the local dog park and then walked down to Golden Gardens. Then we went out to do errands and got home in time to watch the Sounders WIN!

----> Heather started writing this blog, but now she is at prenatal yoga class and I am sitting in a coffeeshop drinking a beer. It's a lovely Sunday, I didn't even have to work today. We might go see a movie tonight, or maybe just watch the Seattle Storm on TV. Later on I am going to trim my beard, the dog we are watching has a nicer looking beard than I do. I don't like being the beard slob in my own house.
Okay, I have to get back to cruising Craigslist for cheap furniture. The crib looks great but we still need a few things to get our house in order before the little person shows up.

Have a great week!

9 months is a long time!

I want to meet our baby!

lately...

We saw Date Night.

We laughed at this:


We bought a crib, a rocker and another chair.

We bought blinds for the whole house!

We like this song:


We are going to a Sounders game today and then I am finally going to knitting!

ah ha!

I hate pcs! I just typed a lovely blog and this stupid pc deleted it all. Some stupid button by my right hand. So much for that.

a few photos

As I was sitting in our yard on Saturday, which was a really nice day, I remembered that we have not taken any photos of our place since we moved in. Sorry about the quality, it was dusk and I wanted to take some before I forgot. These are of our front yard:





From the outside looking in:


Topher grilling some steak:


We will be visited by a blinds person pretty soon here and will no longer have a fishbowl living room, which actually hasn't been that bad. We also plan on digging up some of the plants and moving them to the greenway to make more room for a container garden one of these days. So, yes, we have a front yard!

We are still here!

Hello readers,

We are still alive out here in Ballard. I know we have been busy with life, nothing too exciting. The Sounders season started and we have not missed a game yet. I have one more Professional Certification class in May for this school year, thank goodness! We have also been working on the house, still organizing and putting things away. This past weekend we managed to catch 2 movies! We saw The Joneses and A Single Man, both of which were thoroughly enjoyed in completely different ways.

Later!

finally posting

We bought a house! And are moved in to our new big townhouse in Ballad. I am on Spring Break and trying to put everything away, and also have fun. It has been a lot of work and we have also been getting rid of tons of our old stuff. Our small crowded apartment seems to have awakened the packrats within us. Now we have more space and can really spread out and look at things with an objective eye. We are very close to a Value Village, which makes it much easier to load up and car with junk and get rid of it! It feels good. Some of the things I am amazed that we have a ton of; old magazines neither of us are going to read, clothes we haven't worn in 3 or more years, and old candles we were saving to make new ones!

I am reading Gathering Blue, a Lois Lowry a young adult science fiction book and trying to get some of my professional certification done (haven't yet), with my time off as well.

Topher has this weekend off, his parents will be around and the Sounders play on Saturday and his crew is going with us. Fun! I hope it stops raining!!!