Time Flies...

Having fun or not time flies. Thanksgiving has come and gone. The Holiday Season is in full swing.

We had a great Holiday! Kirby's birthday always falls in between. This year his birthday fell on the day after Thanksgiving. Of course we celebrated his birthday early on the 17th with all of his friends, a VERY loud bowling alley, and a lot of fun!

I find now that he is 13 it is much easier to have a birthday party with 13 year olds than it is with kids much younger. They actually listen! I know that won't last for long but you have to enjoy it when you can. He had his friends from school and a long time family friend over. We had 5 boys stay the night. Most of the boys were special needs. 3 Aspergers, 1 Aspergers combined with adhd and a few others. What a great group! To see how everyone is treated in this group always amazes me. How there can be so much acceptance amongst young people. I wish it would carry through into adulthood with everyone. I think in this group it will.

The guys just wanted to "hang out" the played video games and had dinner, they watched a movie and had snacks, they "hung out" and had more snacks, they played hide and seek in the dark in the back yard and came in for another snack....Do they ever stop eating? Noooooo......I know how much Kirby eats....hehehee...you would think I could multiply that times five and it would be enough? Nope...they eat more when they are in a group...or would you call five or more of them together a pack??? Ravenous perhaps??? You just don't know...

All in all though it was a good birthday. Kirby got to celebrate birthday number 2 at my parents house. All 5 of my brothers and sisters were there at Thanksgiving...since Kirby is the only grandchild at this time he of course is lavished upon...So of course Birthday #2 is a success....Birthday #3 is usually his dads side of the family. We make these arrangements to make sure no one misses out and that family conflicts don't break out. This year his dad definitely out did any gift anyone could have given him. His dad gave him what he wanted which was the Nintendo DS. I just looked and shook my head. Another electronic game...after getting to look at it for all of 15 seconds and having Kirby take it back telling me I had held onto it long enough. I just sighed and smiled. His dad had made his day.

Although Kirby has gotten a lot more use out of the Unicyle that he received from myself since he knows how to ride, the DS still takes the day as the coolest gift! Amazing the gizmos and gadgets they come up with.

It is now the Monday after Thanksgiving. Little Sisters Birthday is 2 days away. Christmas is around the corner. I am on the two week countdown to my first quarter back to school being over. I only have 6 quizzes 3 tests, an essay and a peer review and 2 discussions to complete...and only 14 days to complete them....Nothing like a little bit of pressure to make things happen.

I am holding onto an A average right now, unless I really mess things up, which it could happen, but I am not counting on it...I should end at a point to be able to have a great GPA to apply for more scholarships and actually get them!!

Time to get back to studying!!

Almost Thanksgiving and I am just posting...

So much has been happening and there is so little time to keep up on all the small things I want to do. Since the first day of school for Kirby I have had my first day of school. I am now 8 weeks in to classes and holding a minimum of a 3.8 GPA at this time.

I have had an issue with the History class from day 1. I only have to take it to fulfill a Humanities requirement. After this I hope I don't have to look at another history book.

English is pretty easy since I have written a form of each essay. I can take it and run with ones I have already done.

Math is not an issue. I am usually the instructor in the study groups so its not an issue.

Only four weeks left to go in the quarter. I have to make sure I don't slack off at all. Then I get a month off and get to start all over again with a new quarter of classes.

This next quarter I won't be able to take all my classes online. I will have to go to a class 2 nights per week. I prefer having all my classes online like the ones I have now.

It's a wait and see game. Luckily, I applied for and received the pell grant and the Washington State Needs grant. It doesn't cover all my tuition and books but it covers most of it allowing me to finally go back to school and get my degree.