settling in

I cannot believe that my first semester of school is almost over. Time has flown by so quickly and now I only have five weeks of school left. I have learned so much in such a short amount of time and unlike my high school days, I am really enjoying school. The most surprising thing to me is how much I love my writing class. I am now wishing that I had enough confidence several years ago to go back to school, but I do think that things happen for a reason so I believe I am exactly where I should be.

The weather here in East Tennessee has been beautiful the past couple of weeks. We have had highs in the lower to mid 80's and that can be a good thing or a bad thing. When the temps reach that high in March everybody starts waiting on a huge snowstorm or deep freeze or we try to prepare for a extremely hot summer.

Chesney, my oldest offspring, turned 20 Sunday and I am so proud of her. She will be graduating in November as a pharmacy tech. She has just applied to a nursing program through a great school in Knoxville and she currently works at a local Knoxville hospital as a CNA and has been employed there for over a year. She also has over a year of medical assistant classes under her belt which was the direction she originally planned to go until she decided that she didn't want to go half way, so she is going to be a registered nurse when all is said and done.

Bethany, my middle offspring, is 16 and she is researching some culinary schools. At this point she is preparing to apply to the Art Institute of Atlanta. She is a junior in high school now and doing awesome in school. I cannot believe that we will be getting ready for her high school graduation in a year.

Ty, my youngest offspring and only son, is 14 now and has hit a growth spurt the past year that has shot him up several inches. He use to be this skinny kid that has always been in the 5 percentile in height and weight, however, now he is playing catch up. This time last year he weighed 93 pounds and stood about 4 ft 8, but now he weighs 124 (all muscle) and he is two inches taller than my 5 ft and 1/2 inch, he was so happy last month when his dr. told him he was in the 25 percentile in height and weight. His new love is football and he is getting ready to graduate from eighth grade. He is excited about me going back to school and he likes the fact that my school is literally right over the hill from his. When I leave school on Mondays and Wednesdays it takes me about 2 minutes to get to his school and pick him up.

I probably need to sign off for now because I have a huge math test tomorrow and I need to a little more studying.