End of One Chapter, Beginning of Another

I have so many thoughts and emotions running through my head these days...the end of a school year is always filled with bittersweet moments, but this year feels especially significant for me considering that Baby G could come any day now. We also have 10, count 'em, 10 faculty members leaving this year, and three of them have been huge mentors and friends these past three years. Lots a 'changing around here. But my main emotion is excitement. I just can't wait to meet our little guy, can't wait to hold him, lay my eyes on his sweet self and then look at Clay and once again realize that I might just be the luckiest person on the planet.

Today I officially completed all of my duties for school. Hallelujah. It is so nice to know that all of my exams are graded (my students turned them in two weeks early) and my grades entered. Friday is my last day with students, and until then they are working on helping me develop a class blog and celebrating the end of the year. Love the day of class parties--that is a fun day to be a teacher :-). Next week is exam week at both schools, but thankfully my school allowed me to plan to be off then, so until Baby G arrives, I will be working on getting things organized and ready here at home. For the past couple of weeks, I have been pretty immersed in end of school stuff, including graduation (see above). As educators love to say, schools don't wind down; they wind up.

Speaking of school stuff, I am currently getting text updates from the McC soccer team's semifinal state game in Murfreesboro--and at the end of the half, McC is up 2-0! GO BLUE!!!

We will definitely keep this blog updated when Baby G looks like he might be making his arrival. Clay and I continue to be on pins and needles (Clay has never answered his cell phone so fast as he has these past couple of weeks--it makes me laugh!). It's funny--we thought we had a name picked out for him and have been secretly calling him this name for months now...but we changed it on Sunday. The new name feels right to both of us. Definitely having the name makes us feel all the more ready to meet him. We love him so much already.

As always, thanks so much for all of your love and support, especially these past 9 months. We feel so blessed that Baby G is going to have so many thoughtful, generous, selfless, loving people in his life. We love sharing this with you all!