Back to School

Ohhhhh...
Back To School
Back To School
To Prove To Dad That I'm Not A Fool
I've Got My Lunch Packed Up,
My Boots Tied Tight,
I Hope I Don't Get In A Fight
Ohhhh...
Back To School
Back To School
Back To School...

Yes, I just quoted Billy Madison. You can thank my brother for having those lyrics eternally ingrained in my brain. The lyrics kept coming into my mind last night as we went back to school shopping. Even though neither one of us is going back to school this fall, we walked the school supply aisles with our friend who we took last night to help him get ready for school. I had told his grandma that we would pick him up around 6:00pm and at 5:58 I get a call and the first thing I hear is “Are you still going to pick me today, this is Chrisjin?!” After his call, I was glad to see that he was excited and didn’t think it was a chore.

Our friend is 11 years old and going into the 6th grade so still needed some fun things like markers, colored pencils, and a school supply box. We also helped him pick out two new shirts and a sweatshirt type jacket. I had to laugh because he had some strong opinions on clothes and knew just what was his style. As we walked to the dressing room, I probably told him 5 times that he had to show us what he was trying on. He was very easy to please and very happy about his new clothes. Now back to the school supplies; Target offered us little hope and while we were able to find a few materials, we had to then go to Office Depot to finish getting everything off his list.

We spent about 2 hours together and as we were leaving after dropping him off at his grandma’s apartment, I just looked at the Mr. and said “I don’t know how we are going to do it.” He has a lot of energy and lucky for us, he has a lot of positive energy. He is smart, bright, funny, and just a good kid, but he has a lot of energy to keep up with. When we got home that evening neither one of us had the energy to make dinner, but this baby girl does not let me skip meals anymore so I scrambled up some eggs while the Mr. made some quick and easy tacos for himself.

We just keep getting opportunities to prepare ourselves for parenthood and I am thinking that I need a lot more before this baby comes! We did have a great opportunity to prepare for parenthood by watching our friend’s 8 month old daughter during our first meeting at church. She is a beautiful baby so I mostly just sat and stared at her, but it was another way to prep ourselves.

Ready or not, this baby is coming in about 3 months.

Funny random story that I don’t want to forget: like a lot of pregnant woman I have been getting more Charley horses in my calf muscles at night. There have been some that have been extremely painful and others where I just roll out of bed and stand up to stretch out the muscle. Last night, I had one of the more serve cramps and it of course jerked me right out of my deep sleep. I accidentally threw my arms out and hit Mr. Bluth in the chest pretty hard and unfortunately I was mildly screaming. It scared the Mr. as it would scare anyone and I managed to get out of bed, but it took me a few more seconds to straighten my leg because my muscle was cramping and throbbing so much. After calming down and both of us getting a drink of water we laid back down and I realized that I had awoken and startled the baby. She was going crazy inside after that and I learned that I really need to calm down and not be so dramatic for Mr. Bluth and baby’s sake. It is really hard not to overreact when such a thing occurs though!