I am clearly not getting the blogging award for my performance this year. At least it hasn't been a full year since I blogged last!
Things have changed a lot these last few months. Matt lost his job in May and found his passion. He is back in school to become a math teacher in a program called "Traders to Teachers" at Montclair State University. He is in school 4 days per week from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Once a week he is student teaching at the high school that I work in. I have never seen him work so hard at something before. It is really quite amazing to watch - and inspiring! I always thought that teaching would be a wonderful fit for Matt but I wondered if he would ever pursue it. I think we become comfortable in our career or our path and it is hard to stray from it unless we are really pushed. The push we were looking for came when Unitrin decided to move its accounting department to Tennessee. After spending a few months like Milton from Office Space (that is what I told him when he was unaware of the status of his job for several months even though the rest of the department was laid off - turns out they did in fact forget to tell him that he was out of a job since he worked remotely from home!!), Matt was finally told that he would not be kept on after the move was completed. What a blessing in disguise! Right around the time he found out he was out of a job, my parents read an article about Traders to Teachers in the newspaper. And the rest is history, as they say!
Meanwhile, right after Matt found out he was out of a job, we found out I was pregnant with our second child. Whoopsy! Like all of my timing in life, this was just the perfect way to ensure that we could just change everything all at once instead of doing one new thing at a time. I was due on my birthday, though I was sure I would never make it to my due date (so good to be psychic). My pregnancy was nothing like the first one...I didn't just have morning sickness, I had all day illness. It was like having an incurable hangover all day, everyday! The next lesson is - never ask, "What next?" This is what is next....I ended up with gestational diabetes. So now I finally feel better and can keep food down and guess what? I can't eat anything because everything is a frigin carbohydrate or sugar!! So I dutifully cut nearly everything out of my diet in order to keep my sugars under control without any medication. I was referred to an endocrinologist who said, "Well, we know one thing, this baby will be larger than your older daughter." Was he right? Thankfully, neener neener, he was WRONG! More on this later!
Eva's life changed as well as she began Pre-K at a local catholic school. She is loving school and listening to her sing her songs and tell us what she is learning has been wonderful. She is like a sponge! And she is a wonderful big sister...again, more on this later!
Things have changed a great deal in the Cahill household but we are rolling with the punches and looking forward to reaping the rewards of Matt's career change, namely, our summers together at the lake, getting to watch our daughters grow up the same way I did - with the beautiful and safe surroundings of one of the most wonderful places on earth to spend the summer!
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