Goal!!

So I was thining about GOALS lately.
For the last five years my goals have been your average dreams of someone my age:
Get married, graduate college, get a masters degree, have a child, start my career.

Ok, well check, check, check, check, and check! I've done it. I'm there. I have arrived :)

So what are my goals NOW??!

Sure to be a good wife, mom, teacher, etc. Those were kinda already implied in the other goals.

So what now? I mean I am totally happy and content with my current life and I LOVE my husband, daughter, and job, but shouldn't I still be reaching for something?! All I've been doing up until this point in my life has been for what I have accomplished this past Summer.
So....
Anyone have any ideas for new goals for my life? I'm listening :)

"SMILEY WHILEY!" -goofy movie

Is there anything cuter in this world than when a little baby starts to smile?! NO, there isn't :)
Rebecca is getting soo big! She is 8 weeks now and is so strong. She also sleeps through the night as of two weeks ago. PRAISE GOD! :)

After 5 LONG years..I am now officially, without a doubt a TEACHER!

The Summer is coming to a close and although I basically haven't been working since June I've been VERY busy.

Looking for a job is the most time-consuming thing a person can do. In fact, to find a good job you really need not to have a job so you can attend interviews until you find one! THAT is not right. How is anyone suppose to make their lives better if they have to quit their current job just to 'look" for another one. It's not right...but that is how it is.

Luckily, after putting an application in for every school district around here, including the neighboring state of North Carolina, I was fortunate enough to be offered a real, live teaching job. I was getting very scared that I would have NO job at all and with a new baby that is REALLY scary.

First I was offered a job in Portsmouth and I don't even know why. I had been to about 10 interviews after I had this "winning" one. This one went HORRIBLE and it was the ONLY one that had been like that. I just KNEW when I left that school that they were not going to hire me. To my surprise, just a few hours later, I received a call and a job offer. I orginally accepted this offer and was pumping myself up for third grade...

then as I was walking through Target I got another call from an interview I had almost a week ago. This time it was Newport News and although people may think I'm crazy for travelling this far every day, the school there was SOO much nicer and the interview went so much better. The staff was also the friendliest I had met and I love the idea of teaching pre-k a lot better. :)

The job is ALL-day pre-school. It's the same group of students from 930-4 with NO NAP.

I will have 18 students and a teacher's assistant, but the greatest thing I think is that every Wednesday the students leave 3 hours early and the teachers get a planning time for themselves!

I haven't even received my classroom yet and "Meet your Teacher Night" is September 3rd!

"YAY! Mom's a Teacher!"

becca's 2 wks old

Becca is now 2 weeks old!

I can't believe it has already been two weeks since I became a mother.

I think David and I have adjusted nicely to being parents and God knows our parents have completely embraced being grandparents :)

Having Rebecca has def. started a brand new life for us...one we look forward to with great anticipation. Everything has new meaning. This Thanksgiving and Christmas will be unlike any other because we will have a baby to share it with and which of course will change every holiday after that as well. Of course we are always busy, but it's a good thing and something we will adapt to as life gets even more hectic as I begin my teaching career this fall.

Sometimes I worry about what's to come, but just looking at Rebecca and David I know everything will be ok and even when it gets hard I'll always have them to remind me it's all worth it.

4th wedding anniversary

For the past 2 weeks David has been home on disability due to his knee surgery.

During this time we also had our beautiful baby girl, Rebecca.

David has always been known to be a little queezy at the sight of throw-up or needles, but he was absolutely amazing throughout the entire labor and delivery, not to mention cutting the cord.

He also stayed with me for 4 long nights in the hospital on one of the most uncomfortable chairs ever.

On top of all of that, we are now home with our baby and he is a pro when it comes to changing diapers or anything.

I am just so happy I am blessed to have a great husband and now he is a great father too and

we've been married for four wonderful years as of today :)

BECCA'S HERE

So Dave and I have stepped into a new chapters of our lives: PARENTHOOD

this is our brand new, beautiful baby girl.

Rebecca Rose Jimerson

8 pounds even

19 1/4 inches long

born July 1, 2009

4:11 am

Not 24 hours after entering this world, Becca had her own website thanks to her uncle Daniel and Aunt Adrienne: http://web.me.com/pastord1/Site/Welcome.html

It's amazing just thinking about the technology she will grow up with if she's already got her own webpage.

Maybe this isn't the most momentous occasion ever, but it has a great impact on me:

I am DONE, and I mean DONE, with Hallmark.

Some of you may be utterly relieved that you will no longer hear stories of customers and whatever happened ornament-related lately, and I don't blame you at all, but being done with Hallmark leaves me with mixed feelings

I don't think it's the store itself. I could care less that I never take inventory on cards ever again, but I think I feel lost because I have been thrown out of my comfort zone.

I worked there for what would be 5 years as of August. I stayed there the entire time I was in college, doing practicums, and student teaching. I was so incredibly comfortbale with this job. I knew what I was doing from the inside-out and I knew all my co-workers really well.

Now I'm home and I think the time between now and when the baby arrives will be the hardest.

I am use to being INCREDIBLY busy. I am use to working about 30-35 hrs a week AND being a full-time student. This past Spring I was student teaching 40 hrs a week and still working about 20 at Hallmark and let's not even talk about the time I spent at the Child Study Center last Summer. I guess I lived in stress and I was use to it.

Now, I am doing nothing but waiting...and taking care of the crippled husband,

so we're actually home together for the time being.

Dave just had knee surgery last Friday.

They fixed his torn miniscus (sp) and he will be on crutches for a few weeks, but is hoping to return to work ASAP. He will be taking a week off for the baby tho :) when she FINALLY comes!!

It's ALSO Dave's bday.

He is TWENTY-FOUR! :)