The Next Chapter

If I were writing a novel I would be quickly wrapping up chapter 29 and patiently waiting on inspiration to begin chapter 30. The last several weeks have been crazy around our house...Let me recap:
* Jackson turned 3. We had a great birthday party with lots of friends and family, including a visit from his Mimi and Papa from Houston.
* I celebrated my 30th birthday *gasp*! It really wasn't bad at all. I think something about being 9 months pregnant and having a ton of things to get prepared before another baby comes, kept me from dwelling on the big 3-0. I'm actually kind of looking forward to my 30's, I think there are a lot of good things to come!
* We're still working on the shower. This whole process has been slowed drastically by a viral infection I had for 2 weeks in which I wasn't able/motivated to motivate my husband to work on the shower without me. And in his defense, he was too busy taking care of a very sick pregnant wife and being mommy/daddy for Jackson (a full-time job in and of itself). So, the goal is to finish it before the baby gets here....so we have around 3 weeks.

So another big change that will happen in our lives over the next several months, in addition to a new baby, is that I will no longer be coaching figure skating. For those of you I have known since my college days, you may recall that I started coaching during college to pay the bills. But I ended up continuing to coach even post college and since moving back from Houston, I have been coaching for 5+ years now. I've never done it as a full-time job, but have spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 hours a week coaching. When you add that to working as a speech pathologist, and having 1 baby...and now approaching have 2 babies...something was going to have to give. So over the last weekend I informed my skating kiddos that I would not be returning to coach after the baby was born. Everyone has taken it very well so far, but I will say that it was a very diffcult decision to make. These kiddos and their families have become like family to me and i will dearly miss them. But I've decided that I can't be 100% wife/mom and 100% coach....and I chose to do the best I can as a wife and mother. I will continue to work as a speech pathologst for the school district, but that schedule is very streamlined in comparison to coaching....and that's what my family and I need right now...a consistant schedule.
So there is a lot of change on the horizon for the Josserand family....I'm just ready to get started!
I hope everyone was able to get outside and enjoy the amazing weather this weekend!
Have a great rest of the week!