BIG life changes

It's been months since I've blogged and a lot has changed.  I've moved to a new school and a new grade level.  Both have been wonderful and positive things.  Speaking of positive things...we're having a baby!  Our little peanut is due the end of May, right in time for summer vacation.  I'm not certain if I'm going to keep this blog active now that we're having a little one, but I'm not quite ready to shut it down either.  All I know is that life has become more hectic, and will only continue in that direction.  I'm up for the challenge!

Updates and apologies

WOW. My last post was in December. How did that happen??? Oh yeah...f*cking MS. That's how it happened. It started with some balance issues, then the headaches, using a cane, and then the ever so fun vision problems. My doctor put me in the MRI and still no lesions, but permanent vision damage in my right eye from the optic neuritis. I guess I should be more grateful...I've had optic neuritis twice in my right eye and once in my left...two times I got away with no permanent damage...third time was not the charm. I took some time off work to get better and pretty much kept to myself. I had trouble reading, seeing and focusing. My right eye is still messed up and I'll be going to get a new prescription soon but I'm getting more comfortable with my eye and it's not feeling quite so strange. We went on the MS walk and it was confirmed that I have the best wife ever. I know you think your spouse is the best, but seriously...she's the best. What else has been going on.....oh yeah! Our school is getting ready for the dreaded EOG testing and our whole county takes "practice tests" to help gauge where the students are. My scores weren't where I wanted them to be...but they were WAY above the county average-that's right, I'm awesome. I'm a terrible blogger, but an awesome teacher. I'm so awesome in fact, that a co-worker was out for a week and I taught both of our classes. That's right. BOTH CLASSES. She had a sub, but I did the "whole group" part of the lessons in my room with all the kids and then sent them back for their independent work. I volunteered, no one made me, but I knew with testing looming over us my co-worker would crap her pants realizing how far behind her students would be with her out for a week doing busy sub work. Hopefully now that I'm feeling better I'll be back to blogging regularly. I do want to say thank you to those of you who sent me e-mails wondering if I was ok/fell off the face of the earth :-)

A growing family :-)

Our family seemed complete with two mommies, two doggies, a fat kitty and an irritated turtle...but it wasn't. A super sweet 14 year old kitty showed up the day after Thanksgiving and after much digital footprint searching (Wife calls it cyber-stalking...po-tay-to/po-tah-to) we found her owner-who had not updated her microchip in 10 years-and her last known address. She lived 40 minutes away and moved to another state at the end of October. We then found her on Facebook, messaged her, her daughter and a handful of her friends. One friend responded and told us who she gave the cat to when she moved (who gives a cat away after 14 years????). We called the new owner who excitedly picked her up after 3 days of living with us. The sweet kitty had been missing for 2 weeks and after a week they assumed that since she had been sick with kidney problems that she wandered off to die in the woods. We told the new owner (who lives less than a 1/2 mile away), that she is probably out searching for her old family and should be kept inside. The new owner agreed. We called last Wednesday to check on her. No answer. No returned call. Guess who showed up late last night on our doorstep? Guess who is NOT being called. That b*itch lost this cat twice within a month! We are now fostering her until a RESPONSIBLE family can be found (or she learns to like the dogs). We thought we were complete with a house full of energetic boys, but what we really needed was a kitty with a feminine flair named Princess :-) Wife says we can't keep her permanently because she doesn't like the boys-I say she will learn to like them. She traveled back to our house...she clearly had decided where she wants to live. Are we right or wrong to keep her? If I hadn't spent 2 solid days searching online we never would have found the woman in the first place. She never reported her missing to any of the area shelters, didn't post her missing on any of the regional/local missing pet ads, didn't contact the microchip company and made no major effort to keep her safe once we returned her.