My crazy life

Well, friends, I've finally made it. I am at the very end of my Bachelors degree, finally. And it has been a crazy time of my life. With school, my kids, my hubby kid, trying to sell our house, a cancelled adoption, my internship, service learning, and a client's insane mother with my part time job, it has been an adventure. And now, I'm here. Ryan and I are finally graduating. Whew!

So the question is: what next? Well, I'm looking for a job as a child welfare case worker, but if that fails, I still have my DT (developmental therapy) job, where I can move to PSR (psycho-social rehab) and get paid a pretty decent wage. I still really want to move into foster care/adoptions, so the logical first step is Health and Welfare, but anything will be better than nothing. We've lived so long on just Ryan's income with supplements from our student loans, but I am soooo tired of being poor. And we'll have to start paying back our student loans soon, so we really need to have more money coming in.

Ryan's planning to start Grad school this fall, dumb boy. I'm really not serious about him being dumb-I'm just not ready to start this all over again yet. But he really wants to teach at NNU so he needs his masters and then his doctorate. UGH! As for me, I'm taking ONE year. That's right, Jess. ONE. Dang. And then I'll apply to the MSW at BSU, which will take 9 months to complete. Hurray. I'm just so burnt out that I'm ready to scream. Or cry. Maybe more screaming....

Soooo... let me update on some of the great things that have been going on these past few months. The biggest about my kids is that Miss Ella is walking!!! She started just before 10 months, and then, this past weekend, she turned 11 months and decided that's how she wanted to get around all the time. It's pretty cool-she just decided that she was done crawling and that was that!

And Robby has been learning so much! His favorite new observations are stop lights (and stop signs, but he's been seeing those for a long time). He knows that Red means stop, green means go, and yellow means be careful! And he points them out every chance he gets. Which means that he tells me every time he sees one! LOL. In fact, we were at Idaho Pizza Company the other day, and he could see the lights out the window next to us. So he pointed them out to us all through dinner. Crazy kid! Robby also knows all of his shapes and colors, and he can tell you all the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make.


My cool kids.... This summer, I'm going to be looking for a full time day care for the kids, or at least 3 days a week, since I think Manda still wants to watch them on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But I really need a sitter or day care that I can depend on to watch them consistently. Of course, that's assuming that I'll be able to find a job.

Our house, for those of you still curious, did not sell. It was, in fact, a dismal failure, and one that Ryan and I are still trying to get over. We've been pretty disappointed. Our house and neighborhood are great, so there's no overwhelming reason to move, but heck, the idea of all that space was sooo nice. And it would have cut a good 15 minutes off of Ryan's commute every day. But it was obviously not meant to be, and I don't have the patience to wait another six months to sell, so....

Anyway, that's a pretty condensed version of our lives these past months, but if I went on, I'd be here another hour, and no one wants to read all that.

So, graduation is finally here, and life is as it should be. Just Ryan and I and our two beautiful kids. Who are chasing each other around the house as we speak. My very dirty house. Like I said, just as life should be!