Happy Halloween!

Kids are ready and we had a good time at a pre-Halloween party last night. I have finished 5 out of 7 questions from my plant midterm, still have a paper to write and an A and P worksheet to get to before manana! But for today, I will play with my kids, help them get dressed up, take them trick or treating and just have a good time! (Above: Claudia is my olympic softball player and Michael is a vampire!)

Oh Thursdays, how I loath thee....

Here we are again, to Thursday, where most of the world is cheering for it to be one day closer to Friday. But not me, Thursdays are my arch enemy.
For one thing, they drag on and on, the day must have like 79 hours in it.
Another thing, they have my classes all messed up, so I have these huge breaks between classes, not long enough to do anything, just long enough to make me have to wait around.
Then there are the classes, they are ok, but for some reason, we always get crap work on Thursdays.
And then, there is this, I have so much homework, I am not going to be enjoying this weekend anyways, so why do I have to rejoice in the fact that it is soo much closer to everyone else getting a day off?
So, happy Thursday yall.

Graduation bells are ringing...

Met with my adviser on Friday for a final check on my degree plan. Pending this semester, a winter interim course, 14 hours in the spring and a spring interim course. I can graduate in May of 2011. What has been so long in the making will so soon be over!
All of this has me thinking of the future and plans for a career, so I filled out my application for my teacher certification course. Just one more thing for me to do in the Spring semester!
I hope I can finish on time and on budget, and get a good job soon after, and I really hope I can start contributing to my families monies, not just being the determent to.
Keep the faith,
Chrissy

Another supermom to the rescue

One of my fave things about my kids school is the level of parent involvement. It is also one of the things I hate. At our school, there is a super mom who is currently our PTA pres. She is actively involved in every aspect of her child's life. And I really mean every! I don't think they spend any less time together now than before he was enrolled in elementary school.
She has always been the room mother. I am appreciative, because this is a job I certainly do not want! However, she managed to make a lot of us other parents feel like crap because we didn't do it.
She dressed up for the Christmas party, as a damn elf! The kids loved it, but I was super annoyed with her fake elf ears and her jingle bell shoes. She then proceeded to ask for donations for the teachers gift at the party! If I had been asked ahead of time, I would have pitched in, but asking for money at the party for a hundred dollar gift, seemed a little obscene.
All of these things aside, she is doing all this for the good of the children.
She is an older mom, and sometimes those older moms really try too hard. As a twenties mom, I am content with the status quo. My kids are fed, clothed and well rested. Cleanliness, and smartness require a little more work, and I am still working on those!

On an up note: Cute kiddos in the pumpkin patch!

Each Day is full of surprises

Most of the moms out there in the super highway know how no two days are exactly the same. And my life is no exception. Yesterday, my baby moved into his big boy bed. I found out my checking account is overdrawn and may never come back to life, got several calls for several things to be repo'd and found some long lost data on the cycadeiodophyta. So that was my day, and this is my first blog. See ya'll around.
Chrissy