Life According to Lindsey

Babies, babies, and more babies!

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:33:00 -0700

It seems like anytime you want something, the universe takes every opportunity to put the thing you want in your path all the time!

The best example of this would be when you are looking for or have just bought a new car. Everywhere you go, that car is there…in the parking lots, in front of you on the road, everywhere!

I feel like this has been happening to me lately, just not with a certain type of car, but with babies and pregnant women!

Please don’t get me wrong…I love babies and women who are preggers (especially ones I know), but sometimes enough is enough!

Matt and I have been trying to get pregnant for the past 4 months. I know and realize that this is still not an amount of time that should cause concern, but to me it seems like a long time. I am not worried, not stressed, and not concerned, but it is something that I am really wanting to happen (obviously)!

So, back to the universe…Every woman in our family that is married and wanting to have a baby (whether it is their first or second) is either pregnant or has just given birth:

Cousin ~ had baby #2 in July

Sister-in-law ~ due in October

Cousin ~ due in November

Step-sister-in-law ~ due in January

Step-sister-in-law #2 ~ pregnant with baby #2 and due in May

It is really pretty crazy that there are so many babies making their way into our family over the next few months, and I really could not be happier for all of the mommy-to-be’s in the family! We are definitely going to need a few table extensions over the next few years for family dinners!

Until it is our turn, I will get my baby fix vicariously through all of the above women and their offspring! And I will continue to enjoy cocktails and practicing!

It is Fall!!

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:37:59 -0700

Which means Halloween is just around the corner! Tonight Matt and I are headed to Sacramento to do a little Halloween decoration shopping and some costume-inspiration browsing for this…

I didn’t settle on last year’s costume until the day before Halloween, so hopefully this year’s head start will help!

(Luigi and Mario ~ Halloween Spooktacular 2010)

An email I received: The Light Turned Yellow

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:11:06 -0700

The light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.

The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and makeup.

As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. He took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a holding cell.

After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects.

He said, “I’m very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the ‘What Would Jesus Do’ bumper sticker, the ‘Choose Life’ license plate holder, the ‘Follow Me to Sunday-School’ bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk, so naturally. I assumed you had stolen the car.”

Priceless

Class Is In Session

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:25:08 -0700

Well, I have been back at work for a few weeks and this has been the biggest reason as to why I have been negligent to tumblr…I am really trying/focusing on being a better teacher this year! It seems kinda stupid to say (write) out loud, but I really feel like I could be better at my job and am really going to try to do what I can to get there this year!

Anyways, I was grading papers today and one student wrote an answer that I thought was funny enough to share.

I was going through my kids’ New England States Test today and found this as one of the answers:

New Hamster

Now, I consider myself quite the traveler and know the 50 states pretty well, and have never come across the great state of New Hamster! I guess I will have to google that! ;)

"You must be tired because you have been running through someone’s mind ALL day."

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:00:06 -0700

“You must be tired because you have been running through someone’s mind ALL day.”

- My fortune, courtesy of the fortune cookie I ate last night!

GPOYW: First Picture From Our Europe Trip Edition I have been...

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:11:38 -0700

GPOYW: First Picture From Our Europe Trip Edition

I have been delinquent on posting any pictures from our trip to Europe in June!! So I thought this was the perfect opportunity to post the first one…and what better way to start off then to post the one where I am doing the obligatory “hold up the Leaning Tower” pose!

While we were camping, Max spent the weekend with his grandma...

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:05:50 -0700

While we were camping, Max spent the weekend with his grandma (Matt’s mom). Obviously from this picture she sent me, he had a really rough weekend!

Weekend Camping Trip

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:19:03 -0700

Matt I headed out of town this weekend and ventured out into the middle of nowhere (literally…they give latitude/longitude coordinates instead of a real address to get to the campsite) for a little camping with some friends!

Our campsite was right on the bank of the Yuba River, which made for a very beautiful view and soundtrack for the weekend!

Friends, campfires, not showering, beer pong, horseshoes, a bald eagle sighting, kayaking (which really turned into floating), a lot of Catch Phrase, cooking outdoors, and sleeping outside made for a very fun weekend!

BUT here are my top 4 reasons why it is nice to be back home:

Plumbing…the sites had no running water whatsoever.
Bathrooms…it is not the easiest thing to have to traipse through a campsite in the dark of night, with the threat of bears, to get to the restroom! I always wake up in the middle of the night and have to go, so this makes it quite a bit more difficult than walking across the bedroom! Not to mention the fact that this bathroom was an outhouse (hence the no running water)!
Ice chests…I love camping and spending time in the great outdoors, but I never appreciate my refrigerator more than when I come home from camping!
Huge ants…I literally had a gigantic ant crawl up my pant leg while sitting by the fire!! It was disgusting!! So it is nice to be back home where there is no threat of invading ants!

quote-book: words by isak dinesen, painting by mae chevrette

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:24:22 -0700

quote-book:

words by isak dinesen, painting by mae chevrette

Have you ever said something that you shouldn't have, but at the time, you didn't realize you shouldn't have said it?

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:29:00 -0700

I have. Last night to be specific. And I didn’t realize that I said something I shouldn’t have until I was sharing my evening with the hubs and he gave me a shocked “you-really-said-that” and “I-can’t-believe-you-did-that” face.

I was having a glass of wine with two of my aunts (I guess aunt-in-laws would be their specific titles) while we were planning a baby shower for my sister-in-law.

One of their friends joining us, and we were chatting about how one of them, and her friend, used to babysit my husband. The chatting continued and the friend asked me about how my father-in-law was.

Here is where things got a little sticky…I will give a little back story now to hopefully demonstrate how I did not realize that I had made a mistake.

My husband’s father is gay. When Matt and I got together, his parents were already divorced. So when I met his dad for the first time, he was single. A few years later, we meet his roommate, Ron, and he started coming around a lot (this is when we knew that there was more to just a “roommate” status between them). A few more years after that, they were married.

Now, when Matt and I got married, I got in trouble (literally in trouble and my mom was verbally scolded at the reception) for not giving Ron a boutonnière to wear. He was sitting in the first pew, which was all I thought that they wanted, and nothing was verbally “out” in the open about their relationship. We knew, but nothing had ever really been talked about. So he didn’t get a boutonnière, and I was in trouble because I didn’t recognize him at the wedding.

Fast forward a year later, Matt’s brother is getting married. Ron and Matt’s dad both wear boutonnières AND they walked together down the aisle to their seats during the processional.

In between all of this, my father-in-law and his husband have been inviting the whole family to their annual Christmas parties. They throw a pretty crazy party and have a very wide, eclectic, and varied group of friends.

Also, once they were married, they told their kids and both wore matching wedding bands. Ron also comes to all family gatherings and receives Father’s Day cards from Matt and his brother. They both actively participate in Equal Rights causes in the area.

So to me, it seemed like things were pretty out in the open. The family knows, the kids know, the ex-wife knows, the friends know.

Now, back to last night…I answered the question about my father-in-law by saying that he was good and living out of town with his husband. Apparently I was not supposed to mention the husband part.

This lead to the aunts asking me some questions about their brother. I don’t really know a whole lot, and I don’t pretend to. My husband’s family are not talkers or sharers of emotions. There are times that it is thought that if there is a problem, you don’t talk about it. And if you don’t talk about it, it will go away. So I answered what I knew and what I was comfortable with, because I am (unfortunately in this case) a sharer and a talker.

In hindsight I should not have said anything. Unfortunately, I was not given a rule book stating when, with whom, and where it was appropriate to talk about things like this. I guess I was naïve and liberal enough to not think that being gay was an issue. It is who they are and not something that I thought was supposed to be hidden. My past experiences, especially at my own wedding, made me believe that they wanted to be recognized.

Now I feel really stupid that I said anything. I am hoping that the aunts are not offended or mad at me. I also hope that this does not start a wildfire of gossip. Nothing I said was meant to hurt or “out” anyone, and I hope that it doesn’t.

My Target now has fresh groceries!!! This is the best sight...

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:43:27 -0700

My Target now has fresh groceries!!!

This is the best sight ever! We have no grocery store in our neighborhood/area. Now that Target has fresh groceries, it will save us from driving across town for just a few things!

Thanks Target!

So What??

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:55:24 -0700

I have not been doing any posting lately and the main reason for this is because I haven’t really felt like anything I have to say or show is relevant.

It doesn’t feel like there is any reason to post it. It’s not cool, adventurous, fashionable, exciting. It doesn’t have anything to do with babies, weddings, or pregnancy. I haven’t had the motivation of going through the 1400 pictures from our Eurotrip to post pictures…and even if I did, I don’t really feel like anybody cares.

It is obviously summer vacation for me and I have been using these three weeks since returning home from Europe to do, for lack of a better word, stuff.

My BFFF got married this previous weekend, which was an exciting and beautiful celebration. The week before and the weekend following were full of preparation…appointments, errands, pedicures, rehearsal, brunch, primping, and all of the other lady-details that go into a wedding. I would love to post a picture, but unfortunately none of the ones that I have are any good!

I have really been working on being a good wife (not that I’m not usually), in the scense of cooking more, doing things that have been waiting to be done around the house, and keeping up on laundry.

I score major “wife points” the other day by surprising my hubs with our framed wedding portrait, taking in the garbage cans (which he always does), making dinner, and making dessert!

Matt and I have been spending a lot of time in the evenings riding bikes and walking the dog…yes, I know, super exciting (said in a sarcastic tone)!

So there you have it! A lot of random and pointless information about what I have been doing the past few weeks…and obviously you have not missed anything in my life!

Hopefully I will be feeling a little more motivation soon so that I can hit the keyboard and do some more frequent posting!

We're back!

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:59:18 -0700

Well, we have been back for a little over a week from our trip to Europe. We had an absolutely amazing time, but it has been nice to be home!

This past week has been full of trying to get through the enormous pile of laundry accumulated from almost 3 weeks away from home without a washer or dryer, celebrating 4th of July, catching up and sharing all of our 1,400 pictures with our family, Matt getting back to work (and going through his 5,000+ work emails), and helping Alice get ready for her very-soon-to-be-here nuptials!

It has taken me awhile to get on tumblr and post/check back in to what was going on while I was gone. The reason for this was because one of my favorite parts of being gone was being disconnected from the phone and computer. I thought that I would really miss texting, tweeting, fb updating, and tumblr posting…but I didn’t. I l-o-v-e-d not having a phone on me for almost three weeks. I have been trying to keep this mentality up since I have been home, but when it is at your fingertips, it is a little harder to not check in. I do have to say that the frequency of the “checking-in/updating/posting” has been much less frequent upon my return!

So I hope to be posting some pictures soon and being a little bit more on top of keeping things up to date here!

shiningstar: lilitmarcus: Long live the Oxford...

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:38:14 -0700

shiningstar:

lilitmarcus:

Long live the Oxford comma!

BOOM.

Amen.

Bon Voyage tumblr and America!!! Europe here we come!!!!

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:56:38 -0700

Bon Voyage tumblr and America!!!

Europe here we come!!!!

My report cards are finished!!!

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:45:48 -0700

Only one more day working in my classroom and then it will be officially summer vacation!

Celebrated the BFFF’s Last Hurrah this past weekend with a...

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:22:28 -0700

Celebrated the BFFF’s Last Hurrah this past weekend with a whole lot of fun in South Lake Tahoe!! We drank, we danced, we ate, we talked, we karaoke’d, we gambled, and we laughed!

It was a great weekend and one that I was glad to have thrown for Alice!

Too Much and Not Enough

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:49:54 -0700

This has been THE craziest week ever!! I just wanted to take a second to express my excitement at what is going on…

My last day with my kids was today!! Yeah!
We have resurrected “Field Day” at school tomorrow, which myself and my 2 fellow Student Council moderators are responsible for (the planning and coordinating has been an incredible load to take on, especially during the last weeks of school, but I am thinking that the kids experiencing it tomorrow will make it all worth it)!!
Tomorrow is officially the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!
My BFFF’s Bachelorette Party Weekend kicks off tomorrow! Tahoe here we come!!

With all this, as well as a leaving on our trip to Europe next weekend, I have not had any time to do much of anything except grade papers and try to keep all of the proverbial balls in the air!

So to all the teachers that are out of school (or almost out)…Happy Summer!! And to everyone else, I hope you enjoy your weekend!!

"Mrs. V, I don’t get why people say the homework is hard! It’s really easy…all the..."

Fri, 27 May 2011 15:52:31 -0700

““Mrs. V, I don’t get why people say the homework is hard! It’s really easy…all the answers are in the book.””

- One of my 5th graders

(It warms my heart that he has FINALLY figured out what I have been trying to tell them all year, that the answers are in the book…all you have to do is look for them!! And with 4 school days left in the year, hopefully it will serve him well in 6th grade!)

kquizzo: Tears while my kids are at...

Thu, 26 May 2011 09:30:19 -0700

kquizzo:

Tears while my kids are at music.

(-ashleychristy-:afternoonsnoozebutton)