Sorry. Can't. Gotta Study.

Sorry. Cant. Gotta Study.

If I had a dollar for every time I have said this in the last four years I wouldn't have to worry about getting a job when I graduate, because I'd be a millionaire.

I don't remember the last time I went to the movies or had lunch with a friend. I don't even know if I have friends anymore - it's been so long since I've seen anyone other than my fellow Pima inmates.

Today I am driving 10 hours to a 3 day seminar that specializes in helping respiratory students prepare for the board exams. Yippee I get to go on a trip, but even that is school related. I will study in the car while Billy is driving, and then the next three days I'll be in class from 8 to 5. Wow! Thrilling. The seminar is in Idaho Falls so I'll be staying in Pocatello with my son and his family. I'm missing school for this seminar so I'll have to catch up somehow, but I hope this seminar will increase my chances on passing the boards. That is the goal! Pass the boards!!!!! I'm so looking foward to that and the day when someone calls me up to and asks me to do something and I don't have to say, "Sorry. Can't. Gotta study".

It's Almost Over

I added a new "gadget" to the upper left hand corner of this blog. It's the countdown to the end of school. Four years of education is almost over. Only four years ago I begin this adventure, challenge, insanity - whatever you want to call it. When things like this are over we always say, "oh wow - it went so fast". Looking ahead four years seemed like forever, but looking back seems like just a moment. I imagine that is how we will view life when we look back over however many years we lived. It will only seem like a moment.
I am grateful for these past four years. I have had a love/hate relationship with school, but honestly I thrive on the learning. With anything challenging there were days that I felt it was too hard, too stressful, and I wanted to give up, but what I want more is that feeling of accomplishment when it's all over.
So for now as I near graduation I will push myself harder than I ever have - I will study harder than I ever have and I will pray harder than I ever have.

Easter in Idaho

Four months of waiting

599 miles

10 hours of driving

Two Easter dresses

Two Easter bunnies

all for

these two little beauties.

Priceless!!!!!!!

Miss Abby

Miss Savannah

Being A Grandma

When I was a little girl I wanted to have a grandma. Both my grandmas died when they were young so I never experienced the love of a grandma. Grandmas have evolved over the years from the traditional "apron wearing, cookie making" icon we held so dear. These days grandmas can be anything from the traditional grandma to the "modern hip athletic career" grandma.

I am a grandma, but the idea of being a grandma is very surreal to me. I always thought of grandmas as looking like the lady below. I don't think I'm quite there yet.

But since I am in school I am also not in a position to be the "apron wearing, cookie making" grandma. I'm more the studying, test taking, paper writing grandma. For awhile yet anyway. I'm also not the "fit, muscle building, kick-butt" kind of grandma. That would be cool though. Maybe that will be my next challenge.

And I KNOW I am not the "hip, tatttoo, body piercing grandma. Much to my daughter-in-laws relief. :0)

But I AM the grandma who adores these sweet little girls. I want not only to make cookies with them, but to make memories that will last forever. I hope I can be everything to them that I was only able to dream about.