Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades

(100th post by the way. Kind of interesting)

It all happened unexpectedly, and I’m not being cliche-ish. Every single thing about this whole experience has been unexpected, good and bad. On Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 4:45am, I awoke to Jessica saying words not unlike “ADAM!!! Wake up!”. Naturally, I did because I’d been hoping for those words every day for the past week. She was a little excited because her water had broken (”ruptured” as the medical folk say). She had gotten up to go to the bathroom, felt a gushing sensation, and the rest you can guess. After we came to the realization we were going to have a baby that day, my next words, as you can expect, were “Want to go back to bed?”
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From Spencer's Birth Pictures

Well, Spencer Hintze Jeppson made his debut into the world on Wednesday, November 5th. He was born at 2:08 in the afternoon, weighing in at 7 lbs 10 ounces, and measuring 21 1/4 inches long.

The birth story will follow, but I’m tired tonight so it’ll have to wait. If you want to see more pictures of Spencer, and the events leading up to and after his birth just click here.

From Spencer's Birth Pictures

I felt like creating a digital scrapbook page yesterday. So, after nosing around on some of my favorite sites, I found a contest to enter. They gave me a template to customize and make into my own and then asked to submit it. I felt like that was a good idea that way I didn’t have to think quite as hard in the design portions of it. This is what I ended up with. I am happy with how it turned out.

Well, it’s official. I am done teaching school for the time being. On Wednesday, Adam and I went to the doctor, and told her I have been wearing myself out all week. So, she suggested that I take the next two weeks before Spencer is born to relax and prepare for the adventure ahead of me. She wrote me a note, and I decided Friday (today) should be my last day.

I went through it today, and told all my kids. Their reactions were priceless. I got the best reaction it seems from my 5th Hour (7th grade boys), 6th Hour (6th Grade boys) and 7th hour (almost all 6th grade boys). There were a few students who were really broken up about it. While I won’t miss some things about teaching, I will miss a few of those cuties.

I am a lot more excited to be finished teaching than I thought I would be though. I am ready to take it easy. Adam is going to help me have an objective (just one) to accomplish everyday to keep me from going stir crazy. Thought I’d share the exciting news.

[I really hate to keep on talking about politics here, so this will be the last time before the elections, I promise…]

I know Mr. Obama is a busy man, so I’ll go ahead and preempt his thanks to me by saying, You’re Welcome!  Clearly, he thought highly of my flowchart posted a week ago because he followed it to the letter last night even better than ever before.  Glad I could be of help!