After ten years of being a secondary English teacher I'm taking a year off of teaching to focus on my family. The hope is that I can spend time with my 16 month old daughter Badger (names have been changed to protect the innocent) and that we can see about adding to our family.
We're not expecting anyone (or anything) right now, but we're hoping to be able to have another one within the next year. With my last pregnancy I had some complications, the worst of which were hyperemesis and ICP (intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy). With the hyperemesis I ended up on home IVs and a Zofran pump. With the ICP I ended up itchy and having to deliver at 37 weeks to lessen the chance of stillbirth. I'm hoping that by staying home I can better deal with any complications that come up (if we can even manage to get pregnant).
People keep asking me about how excited I am about this change and I have to admit that I'm scared to death. Yes, I'm over the moon about staying home with my little girl. I know that for people with more than one kiddo my life probably seems easy-peasy and my fears ridiculous, but I'm used to spending my day with 120 teenagers, not one toddler. I respect stay-at-home moms. What they do is uber, uber difficult.
So, in order to document this awesome and scary time in my life I've decided to start a blog. What will it be about? Well, I don't know exactly everything that it will have in it, but based on the last week I've spent with Badger, I can guess that it will be full of Pinterest fails, daily musings about toddler life, and pictures. Lots and lots of pictures.
