With only five weeks left of this quarter, this is the time of the year when it's go, go, go time. This is when you start to live for school a bit more than you'd like, but there are so many things going on & it makes the time go (even) faster.

I'm also three days in with my student teacher who will be with me until the end of May. She's very nice & compatible to what we do in the class-room. I am excited to see what we accomplish together...

Baby is very busy, and strong. Always moving through the day, and a lot at night too! Getting excited to meet our child- only one week left of our month seven!

If you've not checked out Cory's poetry yet...
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Happy Spring!

Baby was so busy on Friday that its heart-beat went from 130...160...153...143... We finally decided on 143 as the final one. I asked if we should worry, and Dr. said it was just busy, busy. We also now have a pediatrician. I had two meet & greets on Friday, and really bonded with one. She coincides with a lot of our beliefs and is very flexible in her practice, although extremely knowledgeable (over 18 years of practicing) too.

Cory is having a great time in Costa Rica. We have begun the habit of watching "60 Minutes" on Sundays, and joke about establishing habits for when we're much older. I find myself watching it now without him. He'd be proud of my keeping up with current events (not usually a great interest of mine).

A low-key weekend. I am fighting a sore throat and have been sleeping a lot trying to prevent it from digressing into something worse. I had ideas of things to complete and finish and do. A clean house was accomplished, a little writing in the baby journal, some great time with friends, and that is all. I hope to begin working on the yard more next weekend. There are some flower-beds to install, and some garden boxes to build as well as fill with dirt to get ready for planting soon.

Thought for the week... I've been reading through Romans in the morning and read the following last week: "because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴perseverance, character; and character, hope." (Romans 5:3-4) And have been really thinking about this. For a time, I always considered hope something you either had or didn't, but never thought of it as something that developed, much less something we should be attentive to developing. And I find it interesting that it's linked to developing character. So I've been thinking a lot about this passage this week.

Currently Reading: "The Princess Bride"