Progress all around ...

So this next week is "planned" to be a very busy week. Wednesday we should finish with all the corn in the field, CR promises we are moving in on Saturday, and baby is scheduled to be induced on Tuesday (August 31st). Talk about everything coming together at once! Eek! and Yay! However, we know from our experiences that things do not always go as planned. I have heard the phrase many times, "God laughs when we make plans." Sometimes I agree with that, but to an extent as humans we have to have plans. Otherwise we would all be running a muck and it would just be the Pitts ... or as the Patrick's say the Dickens. (One time I asked if the Dickens were the Pitts neighbors! That one got a laugh for the books!)
When we went to the doctor last Thursday we got to see baby on the ultrasound. They were very cautious about not showing us any areas that we didn't want to see. According the them the baby weighs 5 lbs 10 oz, which the doctor said is a little small for being this far along, but that I have been measuring about a week smaller all along and all looks healthy. CR even asked to check for a hair lip or something like that ... I never would have thought about that. The lips looked good though. They confirmed that a foot has definitely been between my rib cage and its booty was to one side. I knew this because my belly has been slightly tilted ... Kyleigh lays like that when she is tired so I knew for sure that was what Poot was doing. Funny huh? I was still at 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced. They scheduled an induction for 5 am August 31st, but that I was "ripe, so really any day now ..."
I went and spoke with the person in our district office in charge of insurance and disability. I am going to end up taking 41 days ... just a little over 6 weeks. This poses a bit more of a funds gap than we were predicting, but my heart said to do it and I felt Jesus' hand reminding me He would take care of everything. With the weekends and such it ends up giving me almost 2 whole months to just think about baby. I know they will fly by and I will not be ready to go back, but it is what I could do.
School starts back tomorrow with the kiddos. It is going to be an interesting year. I am excited that I really do not know any of the students in my classes. I know a few, but nothing like the previous year where I got many of my old students back. I get to start fresh with these guys and that gets me excited. I am still co-teaching, which means that my classes are pretty stacked with what they call "SPED" kids. We know labels are often wrong, so I look forward to seeing what God is going to do with these kids minds, my heart, and my co-teachers talents. I have a new "partner", so this will be a learning experience as well. I love her so far ... she has lots of great ideas to bring to the table it seems like and her kids did awesome on TAKs last year. Ours did too, but maybe with her we will get that boost we need to send CHS into exemplary (we were 3 dropout kids away last year).
CR is frantically trying to get the house ready. He keeps saying, "I promised you we would be in before baby came ... and I let you down a lot with the farm so I am keeping this promise." I just love his sweet heart. I told him that it really didn't matter at this point, but it does to him because it is the principal of "letting me down". As I write this that brings tears to my eyes because his heart is so true. I am so blessed to have a husband that empathizes yet is also so much fun. I am so blessed to have a Godly leader. I am so blessed God lead me to CR for the 2nd time so that I wouldn't miss him again. I love how God sometimes just drops things in front of us and says, "TAKE IT".
No pictures to post right now because CR wants the rest of the house to be seen in person. I will tell you the fireplace got all finished up on Wednesday and it looks better than I could have ever imagined. The man that pieced Grandmother's rock together is a true artist. I am so excited that they got to use her rock ... I never got to meet her and now I feel like in some way she will be a part of us forever.
We will keep you posted on the progress of Poot. Pray with me that Poot stays put till the 31st because then we I go back, it will only be 3 weeks until Thanksgiving break!