Post Number 1-An Introduction

Well this is it...my first blog and my first post. I figured I "waste" enough of my time reading blogs by other people, that I might as well start one myself. So here it goes, as I said in my introduction, my husband and I lead pretty boring lives, so don't expect anything earth shattering here. This will be about our day to day lives and events that we are going thru. Basically it will be a little of this and a little of that. I hope you all find it interesting and somewhat amusing.

Most of the "drama" in our lives come from my husband's job. See he is a college football coach, who is just starting out in the profession. I will tell you that there is a ton of drama that comes along with his job, and there is new drama almost everyday. He has been in the profession for about 6 years, and has been shit on along the way for most of the time. Don't get me wrong, there have been some good times. But it has mostly been filled with him working his ass off for people, who can't do their job right, and him getting absolutely no credit for it. There has been the occasional "thank you" and "great job". But for the most part, he gets very little lovin' from a majority of the coaches he has worked with. Why you ask does he put up with it and still fight for a full time coaching job, instead of quiting and having a "normal" job. Well, plain and simple football is what he loves to do and he has dreamed of being a college football coach since he was seven years old. So we put up with the shit and the suffering in hopes that one day somebody will realize how awesome he is at his job, and give him the full time coaching job he deserves and has worked his ass off for. So far in the 7 years we have been married we have moved3 times in search of the "perfect job" I will get more into the the life of being married to a college football coah later, thats a post within itself.

I on the other hand have a pretty "normal" job. Currently I'm working full time in a very good childcare center. Some call it a daycare, but I hate that term. I didn't go to college for 4 years to learn the correct way to bring up days. I went to college for 4 years to learn the best way to take care of and bring up children! I have always loved being around children and thought I wanted to teach elementary school, but to be honest I can't stand some off the attitudes that kids have now a days. I'd probably be tempted to pop one of them in the mouth. So I switched majors from elementary ed, to Child Psychology, emphasising in Child Development. Instead of listening to the potty mouth of elementary kids, I get to help little kids, learn to go potty. I also get the warmest hugs about 50 times a day. My profession gets a verry bad rep. Many times early childcare workers are thought of as just "babysitters", please don't ever call me that! I work hard in my classroom, and in my room, I write out lesson plans focussing on what toddlers need to learn, based on their own individual assessments. I could go on and on, about this, but sometimes it makes me a little irritated, that I take care of other people's children all day and get little credit for it. Just because I don't work in an elementary school doesn't mean I can't or don't teach. I have taught hundreds of kids hundreds of things. Enough said about that.

Ok, thats enough about what we do for a living. Anything else you need to knwo. Hmmm let me think. Well all I can tell you is that we are trying to survive in a shitty economy, in a shitty small town with little around it. But all and all, we are doing fine. Don't get me wrong, we could definately use some more money, but in the grand scheme of things, we could be doing a whole lot worse, and we are keeping our heads above the water. (please cars, don't break down)

Oh, yeah. There is one other detail going on in our life. Besides trying to get a better job anywhere in the country for my husband we have also decided to start a family. We are both in our early 30's and decided we probably shouldn't wait much longer. We started trying in September tried until December, took 3 months off and started trying again in March. So far no luck for us in the baby department. We figured it would have happened right away. Should have known with our luck...NOTHING is ever easy for us. So every month we try harder than the month before. Hopefully, things will turn around soon in that area of our life, and we will have a little baby before we know it. I will keep you all updated on that front. Oh, please don't say anything to our family or friends!(yeah, like you know them) Very few people know we are trying and we would like to keep it that way in order to suprise the crap out of them. Everyone still thinks I'm on the pill. Boy will they be suprised if it ever happens!

Alright this is long enough. But I wanted you all to have the gist of our daily life. Hope you all enjoy and stay tuned for new developments on The Tale of Two Coins.