I'm Terrible at Blogging

To all the people-family, friends, strangers-who come to my blog daily to see if I have updated anything, let me just say I'm sorry. I am not very good at this whole blogging thing. I was doing really well at the beginning, but then nothing really exciting happened, so I didn't write. I apologize and in the future will try to do better. I'm going to make an attempt to write at least once a week (please notice I said attempt).

Okay, now that my disclaimer is out, I can go on. These are some old pictures, but I need to put them on here because they mean so much to me. These pictures are of the day I told my class at school that I was expecting. I put a poem on my Smart Board for them to copy in their journal as soon as they came in class. I told them that this was a very special riddle poem and they had to guess what my big surprise was. I made sure that they knew to keep their answers a secret. I teach first grade and they love games where they have to keep secrets.


As they were writing, I walked around to see if any of my kiddos had guessed my secret. Some of the answers I got were funny. One of my kids saw the words "It won't be here until November" and automatically thought about turkeys. He thought my big surprise was that I was getting a turkey. Another child saw the line "It's tiny and cuddly and sometimes cries" and thought I was talking about a puppy.

About this same time as my kids are writing, my principal, Ms. Polk, comes on the intercom to make her daily announcements, say the pledge of allegiance, and have the moment of silence. In the middle of her announcements, Ms. Polk says, "Teachers, please make sure you stop by Mrs. Wilson's classroom and tell her congratulations." I was so worried that she was about to spill the beans and ruin my riddle poem. Thankfully, that's all she said, but then I had a rush of teachers come to my room to hug me. Of course, now my kids are REALLY suspicious. Finally, after about 15 minutes, I get out my camera and record them reading the poem. I tell the ones who know the answer to shout it out at the end. (They were supposed to wait until after I said "Three" but they were too excited!) I tried to post the video but Blogger takes so long uploading it. I'll try again later.

It was so much fun to be able to share this news with my class. They couldn't believe that I was going to have a baby because I was too skinny. I reassured them that I would be very big by the time they were in 2nd grade next year. I can't wait to go back to school in August and have a pregnant belly. I am so excited!