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.

Emotional Roller Coaster

Yesterday, I came home from work and went to get the girls at the bus stop. Sarah who usually comes off the bus not in the best of moods, came off swinging her backpack and she says to me.

"Mommy, I have the most fantasic recess today!" I'm asking myself what could have happend that would make her so bouncy? She then proceeded to tell me the story. She apparently was swinging and somone wanted the swing that another little boy (Terrence) wanted. So Terrence gave up his swing and went over to one that was empty next to Sarah. He started talking to her, "You know Sarah, when I act like I don't like you I am just pretending. I have always had a crush on you. Do you want to be boyfriend and girlfriend again.

She of course said yes! Faith then chimes in, "Yeah, now we both have boyfriends!" LOL

Then today, just like we had an extreme high, we had an extreme low! Sarah is allowed to ride her bike to school as of this week. We live a ways away and I really wanted Sarah to ride with some other kids. I asked her if she knew of anyone who lived close to us that was going to ride their bike. She told me the Molly, a classmate, was riding her bike. I called the mom and left a message yesterday. Molly's mom called me today and told me that Molly didn't want to ride with Sarah. Lee, Molly's mom, said there have been incidents between Sarah and Molly that she is saying, were unprovoked.

Now I know that Sarah isn't the easiest person to get along with, but I also know that since she is her own person, it has left her an easy target for being teased. Which she does not take well. But as I was telling this to Sarah, big tears welled up in her eyes, and I just wanted to smack that little girl who hurt my child's feelings. Sarah so wants friends, to be accepted and liked.

Why are kids so mean? I told Sarah that she is her own person and she should be proud of that. But does a 10 year old understand that? I hope so. My heart was breaking when I was talking to her. I pray that she finds GOOD friends who like her for who she is, someone who is genuine, kind, caring and loving.