A Haircut

I finally got a much-needed haircut today. I don't know if it was the pregnancy hormones or just the summer heat, but I decided a couple of weeks ago that it needed to go.

The before:



And the after:

We had such a nice day here in West Tennessee today, that Blair and I spent the morning out in the yard. He cut down a small tree for my parents, and I picked blackberries. After that we sat in the swing for a while and enjoyed the sun. I took some pictures and posted them on Flickr.

Of Summer Travels and Babies

Blair and I have traveled more this summer than we have since we've been married. We went to Asheville for Memorial Day and we flew to Tennessee for my brother's wedding. Blair went to Germany for a month and I went back to Tennessee to spend two weeks with my parents. Last week, I traveled to the beach for a faculty retreat, and tomorrow morning at 5:30 we're rolling out yet again for Tennessee. We'll be gone for two weeks, and I'm thinking that will be our last trip for a while.

Several of you are probably wondering what babies have to do with our summer traveling. Well, not much, really, except that we found out we were pregnant during one of those long trips!! That's right. There's a little Chadwick growing and developing right now! We have a very big year in front of us, but we are both so excited and can't wait to go through this journey together.

A Crafty Evening

I decided to spend my last Blair-less evening by vegging out in front of the TV. Not my best idea or finest moment, but in the stillness that was thoughtlessness, I had a great idea. While I was in Tennessee, I bought a bird cage at a craft store. I had played around with some ideas for it, including making some fabric birds. Last night, I decided to make and hang paper birds in it instead. I took several sets of two pieces of 5.5X3.5 paper and glued them together and let them sit for about ten minutes. Then I traced a bird pattern from The Purl Bee and cut them out. I got one big bird out of each rectangle and two small ones out of a rectangle. I used a yarn needle to put a hole in the tops of them and just used white sewing machine thread to hang them from the cage. I'm really pleased with how cute it turned out. It looks really neat when the air blows over it, because the birds look like they're flitting around. I'm knitting a nest to go in the bottom.

Learning should never stop

Since returning home Monday, I have been attending new teacher training at my new school. CCS is a school that provides a classical education, which means most of this week has been very philosophical. My brain is very tired. I haven't exercised it like this since I graduated from college (and yes, I know, that was only two years ago). I'm very excited about the education this school provides, and I can't wait to start implementing some of the new ideas I've learned this week. Next week, we have a faculty retreat at...are you ready for this?...THE BEACH!!