Here I Am

Well, it's Thursday night, one more night and then I am off to go home. It has been nice and somewhat relaxing. We started off going to Lake Tenkiller in Oklahoma to visit with my Mon's side of the family.

We had a great time! The hotel was really nice and had a pool there, so the girls definitely went swimming. We found a nice restaurant called the Smokehouse. It looked like an old farmhouse from the outside with rockers on the front porch. We went in and there were moose heads on the wall, an 8 foot snake skin on the wall, a stuffed bobcat, with all kinds of other stuff, like an old wagon, what we think was either a toilet plunger or butter churner. We aren't quite sure which one it was. They had GREAT food though.

I think the whole family had fun, Craig and Faith cheesing it up for the camera. After we went to Lake Tenkiller, we came back to Texas and went to my sisters Timeshare in Flint, Texas. It was called the Villages. We had two different apartments and the girls went swimming (go figure). It did rain quite a bit the whole time I have been here. But it would clear up for a while. The girls found people to play with. At the club house there was an arcade, pool table, board games, ping pong and miniature golf. We tried to get the girls horseback riding, they told us the wrong days, so they weren't able to do that. Oh well, I think they had a pretty good time.

We did make it out to my great aunt and uncles in Tyler, Texas. She had a stroke a couple of months ago and struggles sometime with her speech. Craig finally go to fish some. He had to buy a pole at Walmart. He said he was going to keep it at my mom and dad's but he ended up liking it enough that he took it home. There was this bird, that was waiting for Craig to get a fish. He was a big one! I'll post a picture later. After we left the Villages we came home and the next day Craig and the girls left for home. I have been here and enjoying my quiet time. The girls don't seem to miss me to much, but I do think that Craig will be happy that I am home. He might be able to actually go to the gym. LOL

It's Over, Done!

I took my two finals today. Biology Practical and the final for the lecture part of it. I think I did pretty well, no lower then a B+. I am happy with that!

I really enjoyed my teacher for this class. The lap teacher left a little to be desired, but I got though it anyway. Next up is Anatomy and Physiology I and I think I will take Spanish. Sarah is hoping to get Spanish so we can take it together. I think that will be fun.

I have been TAGGED!

I have been tagged by Colleen! 7 Random things about me?

1. I was a preacher's kid. Still am I guess, although I'm not a kid.
2. At 16 I took off from California and lived in NY for about 6 months.
3. I lived in Germany for 3 years, it was the best time of my life!
4. I am 38 and going to school part time for my RN
5. I have two tattoos
6. I was born in Oklahoma, but I have lived in Missouri, Oregon, all over California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina.
7. I am part Cherokee Indian and am proud of it!

Alrighty then, there you go!

My Afternoon Rant (A Continuation)

Call me a nervous mother. I never thought I would be.....

I take off early from work; Craig won't be able to get the girls. On my way home I call my neighbor I want to see how her son is doing after surgery and see if she could get Faith off of the bus so I can kinda watch out for Sarah like I did this morning.

I go to Sarah's school; I know she can't leave until the buses have left. Only one has left and it's about 5 min until Faith will be getting off of the bus at our house, I leave to come back home to scoop Faith off of the bus and go look out for Sarah.

"Come on," I yell over the sound of the bus.

FAITH: Where are we going?

ME: To watch out for Sarah

FAITH: She's already here.

ME: What? looking around

FAITH: Look here she comes!

And there's Sarah, on her bike with a new confidence. It did my heart good.

Screw You, Ride On

I know that the title of this is a little off, but that is how I felt today watching Sarah ride her bike to school the first time. She wanted to ride so bad and no one wanted to ride with her for whatever reasons, little girls are mean. So all this week she rode her bike with her dad to see how she would do. She has barely ridden her bike around the house and now she has to cross a major intersection, and people in cars don't watch.

I woke up and Sarah was already dressed, Faith was sleeping with me in my bed. She crawled in there sometime last night. I asked Sarah something about the bus and she told, "I'm on my bike going to school." OH!

Earlier this week Craig rode with her and she had said that he made her nervous. I tried to instill confidence in her. She was aware that she needed more practice. I told her that she should ride with her dad a few times and maybe on Thursday she could ride her bike. Craig worked late last night and she really wanted to go, but was afraid to ask him for some reason. When she finally did, he told her it was to late. So needless to say I was NERVOUS.

But she rode her bike to the bus stop, showing everyone that she was riding her bike, by herself. She didn't know I was following her and she saw a mother of one of the children that rides her bus and she waved, but wasn't looking where she was going and ran into a bush. Fell right on top of her bike. I have to say I truly did laugh out loud. I wanted to see if she was okay, but she picked up her bike and got back on it and continued to ride on. I was sooo proud of her. I thought maybe she would be more embarrassed if she knew I had seen her fall.

So I continued on, drove ahead of her and turned around. I managed to be at the light when she was going to cross that busy intersection. She came up to it, got off of her bike, looked both ways, and crossed the intersection. She did great, and I told her! I continued to watch her but she didn't see me. I watched her until she turned onto the block that her school was on.

As I was coming home I saw the group of kids, that Sarah wanted to ride with. I would be lying if I didn't say I just wanted to plow 'em down. Then I thought to myself, no, let them pull up at school and see Sarah at the bike rack, locking her bike and going into the school, knowing that she rode her bike all the way to school all by herself.

Ride on Sarah!

HOPE!

Do you feel HOPE or HopeLESS? It seems that a few people I know are feeling HOPELESS Why is that? What is about us that settles for focusing on the negative......

................On what gets us down...............why is that we dwell in the low places?

Why can't we choose to lift up what is going well in our lives. Praise the creator of the universe.

Reaquanting with an old friend

Yesterday I realized that a girl who is in my bio class, Alicia is friendly with an old friend of my Mary. It's funny how these things happen. I haven't seen or heard from Mary in probably 4 months, so it was nice to get to see her again and just hang out. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed Mary's company. I do believe that we will be getting together more often.