Feels Like Easter

Bet you wonder what this is!!! This is a duck egg. And where is the duck egg you as? I will have to say you never know, that is why I feel like it is Easter every morning I go out to the front yard and look where the duck have laid them. This one is by the hay and where they will be tomorrow only the ducks know.
There are times I love living on a farm. Nothing is every the same from day to day. I love all my animals (even though some may become dinner). I think that as kids you can never have too much fun when you can learn from your own front yard. Many times I have the kids ask me questions and I think it is just amazing that I can teach them by just taking them outside.

Nothing much has been happening here lately. My surrobaby, Nessa, is one month old tomorrow and I got some beautiful pictures of her today. I will have to ask her mom and dad if I can post them here as I want to make sure they are OK with it. I have to say that she is a moose. I talked to her mom and she said she was 10 lbs 8 oz (on Friday, August 22) which meant she was only 2 and 1/2 wks old. I told you, a moose. She has another appt. on Tuesday, Sept. 2nd. I am going to guess 11 lbs 5 oz. Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and not having to do to work on Monday.

First Week Down, 15 More To Go

OK so after my first week of school, I don't hate it as much. I have been dealing with a lot of drama in fixing my schedule. At first I only had school on Tues, Thur, and Fri, now due to classes I don't have to take (cause Chico State screwed up) I am now going every day. For most people this would be fine, but I live 45 minutes away from campus and it sucks to have to drive 80 miles a day five days a week for 16 weeks. The good news is that I acutally have some cool classes now and I think I will enjoy this much more. For one of my classes I will be teaching 4th, 5th, and 6th graders science. I have no desire to be a teacher but I have kids and this will be pretty easy for me and it is 2 units. The decision I have to make now is to have only a 7 unit load next semester and take less financial aid or fill it up with "fun" classes, like yoga (never done it but I heard it is fun). I hate that I am a planner (to an extreme) and it will just drive me nuts until I make a final decision.

First Day of School

Here are Ariel (on the left) and Alexya (on the right) on their first day of school today. Ariel is in the second grade and Alexya is in first grade.
They were really excited, but I don't think as excited as I was. I had 6 and a half hours to myself. I wish I had nothing to do, but I had to drop off movies, go to the DMV, and go grocery shopping. I was nice though that I could go and not have to have them whinning about going. I have to say that summer was long and I am glad that they are back in school. As for me I will be getting up at 6:00 am to start my first day of school tomorrow and I am so not looking forward to it. i don't know what I can do to get myself at least somewhat excited. I think I will make myself from girly coffee in the morning (the coffee that has flavors added to it) to get myself at least hyper to start the day.

Soccer Mom, am I

This is the middle child, Ariel, in her first soccer game of the fall season. She is the one in the baby girl pink and is on the U-8 hummingbirds (not a real intimidating name, huh?)

On another note school starts tomorrow for them (me as well but I have Tuesday/Thursday classes, so I don't go until Tuesday) and I think I am more excited for them to go back then they are.

I still have not heard back from the agency that I filled out all the info for. I don't want to seem desperate for them to accept me as agencies are a dime a dozen but I really did like the sound of the agency and what they have to offer. I am thinking that I will e-mail them tomorrow to just make sure things are being processed. I hate the waiting game in the world of surrogacy and I seem to get a bit anxious. The hurry up and wait game is hard for me because with my first journey it was just so smooth, no waiting at all for things to proceed. Anyway I am off to bed as I have to actually start getting up early and that means no more late nights.

Lets get the show on the road

So I offically cannot quit college as I just bought $350.00 in books (and that is only 6 books). Look what my money has bought me.


The kids and I all start on Monday and I have a feeling that this is going to be a long semester for me. I have been waiting all summer for the kids to go back to school as they think I am to entertain them all day. What do they think I bounght them all the crafts and what-nots, for me?
Anyway I have sent off my application to the new surrogate agency (it was 32 pages long) and I had to scan each one of them into my computer and then it took about 2 hours to e-mail it because I have dial-up (yep, I still ahve dial-up), as that is all we have out here in the sticks. I am really excited even though I know I have to wait the 6 months post partum until I can transfer again. Just thinking about it gets me all excited to meet some new IPs (Intended Parents). I am hoping that we can get all the medical and psych evals all done and then meet some IP's and get the contracts done and be ready to start in February. Well that is all the dram for now. I will be sure to post our first day of school pictures on Monday.

Brief, but me in a nutshell

I am glad to have a place to put my thoughts on life, cause they matter, right? Well, to start off I am a 26 year old with a whole lot of life yet to live and a whole lot to live for. I am a mother, wife, sister, daughter, student, and surrogate. I am currently a senior at Chico state and ready to start my second journey as a surrogate (more to come about that later).

Some of my trials as of late have been dealing with the emotions that come after having a baby. I am not sad that I do not have the baby, as she is making her parents happy to be alive, but dealing with all the hormones that rage after having a baby. I guess I really never noticed it before with my own because I was soooooo tired from taking care of them to realize wy own emotions. I have about 6 days before I go back to school and have been crying to my husband that I want to quit. Now I know that I only have a year left, but it seems so far away. I called the rest of my family to cry in their ears and low and behold they told me the same thing my husband told me, "You are so close, don't just give up". And my husband added that I can't because he said so. So off to college I go for the last 2 semesters. I hope they pass by fast with all the whirl of life and surrogacy. Hopefully the hormones die off and soon I will be back to my old self to just start this all over again.