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Nov. 15, 2006
Busy, Busy, Busy
Okay, so I've been absent for a while. There IS a reason for that! Not only was I sick with a cold last week, but I caught an entirely different cold on top of it. Now I'm all bronchial, and stuffy-nosed. It's not fun. I was resting, trying to recoup, trying to deal with all of these issues without medication (yesterday I cracked - I couldn't BREATHE!).
Why on Earth would one try to battle the cold from H-E-double hockey sticks without medicine?
I'm pregnant! We're expecting baby 2 on July 15th of 2007. We weren't exactly trying, but we weren't exactly preventing, and it happened! Hubby is SOO excited, it's so cute!
I wanted to do a home birth, which would have been ideal for me and my control-freak issues, LOL, but hubby was concerned - not to mention a bit in sticker shock! So we're going to look into birthing centers and the other local hospitals with birthing style rooms. If all else fails, we'll do what we did the first time, but with a birthing plan so I don't get as many surprises as I did last time.
Besides, next year in November, my Baby Brother is getting married! He and his Fiancee live in Florida, which means if I have to budget for 2 major events less than 4 mos apart, I'd have to choose which is more important. Perfect birth or attending the wedding? Sorry, but I have to err on the side that lets us show off our new bundle to adoring family and friends 
Homeschool wise - we just bought a curriculum for $20, which rocks! It's part of Harcourt Family Learning series, with the focus on Math and English (and all that goes with it - grammar, spelling, writing, etc.) I figure we do enough supplemental readings to catch up on history, geography, science and all that jazz. I also had to buy a 2nd grade math workbook, because Daughter's sick of all that review stuff.
Daughter read 2 readers all on her own. The last time we checked these out was over the summer, and she's reading them without help now! How'd that happen?!? Is her memory that good, or is it just that she's really LEARNING to read? I am constantly astounded by what she learns! I'm such a proud momma!
My only concern now is pregnancy brain and attitude these next 9 months! I really have to check myself and my attitude/fuse when I'm teaching now... While this promises to be a less stressful pregnancy this time around (i.e. we're actually married this time, he's got a steady job, etc) there's no guarantee that the Hormone Fairy won't stick me with a bunch of rotten attitude here and there.
(hormone fairy! LOL)
No TV day is a weekly occurrence now. Usually Tuesdays, as there's not much else on anyhow. Perhaps once a year (during the summer) we'll do a week of no TV. That'd be fun. We did have a blast that first time! Okay, gotta go eat lunch now! I'm actually hungry today!
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Posted by 
Nov. 16, 2006 - Congratulations!
Okay, reguarding a pregnancy ticker.
www.tickerfactory.com is a good one. They have really easy step by step instructions on their site. Once you complete making your ticker you will get several different codes. You will want the HTML code. Right click and copy the code.
Now, go to your blogger control panel
edit template
Where would you like your ticker to be? We are using a different template but I think (hopefully) it will be similar. I decided I wanted my ticker to be located at the bottom of my blog.
So, inside your edit template window you will find all kinds of confusing stuff. Its really fairly simple once you learn to "read" it.
You will find something that says this < !-- ENTRY PAGE -- >
(actually it won't have a space between the first symbol and the ! or between the last - and the > but I had to add space for it to show.) Confused ya yet? I hope not.
Okay, so look for the < !-- ENTRY PAGE -- >
Immediately before that line insert your ticker code.
It should look something like this:
<!-Blinkie->
<br/>
<a href ="http://www.TickerFactory.com/">
<center><img border="0" src= "YOUR TICKER ADDRESS"></a></center>
< !-- ENTRY PAGE -- >
Okay, try it out. If you need any help let me know!
(edited to add, I've had to add a few spaces in order for the code to show up.)
Edited by RollsLife on Nov. 16, 2006 at 9:10 AM