Work has been getting harder because my brain is feeling slower and less creative (not to mention zero caffeine). The doctors, people, websites, etc say that two cups of coffee a day are fine. They also say caffeine goes through the placental barrier and babies don’t process it well. What does that mean? I dunno, but my mom went cold turkey so I figured if she can do it, I can do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a picture of me from last week in work clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In preparation for being what I call “super pregnant,” I reduced my hours at work (my English school) from 4.5 hours to 3 hours every morning. I almost feel like a wimp because 4.5 doesn’t seem like a lot, but it’s non-stop running around on my feet high-focus the entire time. Getting off at 11 AM seemed easy. Then I speed-walked to the post office and found my speed was actually pretty slow. lol For me. So yeah, I think I’m doing the right things. It’s my last month before I quit! I’m sad to quit. \ud83d\ude41 I love this school and company, but my husband and I agreed I’ll be a stay-at-home mom. Hopefully things continue going well with his job and we can afford it. As of now, we’ll be okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m still teaching kids jiujitsu, although that’s harder as well. I can no longer do bottom guard techniques. I can’t do sit ups and I don’t want to squish Baby Roman. I can still do some stuff, though, and it’s fun to be around jiujitsu. I can’t practice anymore at all right now. I’ve been lifting weights a lot! Three times a week is a lot. Walking every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today I dropped a notebook in my English class, and I squatted down to quickly pick it up. One of my students who hadn’t seen me for a while, practically shouted, “Oh my gosh, teacher, did you guys see that? She doesn’t look pregnant! Did you see how she moved?” Well, I can’t do jiujitsu anymore, so what do you think I’m doing every day? I’m squatting with dumbbells. LOL I guess the average pregnant woman doesn’t work out as much as me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Man, I haven’t been writing OR taking as many pictures as I used to. Let’s see, here’s a random picture of me and Chris eating sushi last month. Well, I had rolls that were cooked because bad sushi is supposed to be deadly for fetuses. Husband! Oh I love him so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s see, OH! I cornered Serena for her fight in March! It was still safe for me to travel, so I ended up going and I also got to visit my dad who lived within driving distance. YAY! What a good time. Serena ended up winning by TKO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris and I are also getting into Dungeons and Dragons, a table-top role-playing game. We got Serena to play with us! Chris is the dungeon master. I love his ideas, and I love his Kobald voice! It’s so …kind of cute, kind of creative, super awesome. \ud83d\ude00 I’m a dwarven monk. Serena is a half-elf half-human barbarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to my sponsor, “My Consumer I.T.” Network Support, Data Cable Installation, Phone System Setup, Website Design, Internet Marketing\/SEO, and Fully Managed I.T. Management. Hire them for your business today! \ud83d\ude00 https:\/\/www.mcithouston.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I’m still pregnant! It’s a boy! We haven’t decided on a name yet. I’m excited for a boy! I’m more of a tomboy myself, so I think I’ll be a good boy’s mom. \ud83d\ude00 He’s moving around a lot now. At first, it just felt like gas. Then I realized it was happening at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9960,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions\/9960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3023-1020x1360.jpg\")
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