This week has been super busy and it's only Wednesday. Monday I had a job interview and then that evening I attending the South Carolina United Methodist Church Annual Conference. My aunt was ordained a full elder. (I'm extremely proud of my aunt.) On Tuesday I attended a graduation that evening but spent the day researching schools preschools and graduate school programs. Finding the perfect school is stressful and I'm finding that it may just be cheaper to enroll my two year old into college than to send him to preschool.
One school's yearly tuition was over $15,000 plus a list a special fees which ends up being close to $20,000 . For $20,000 I need my kid to be able to obtain licensure and start a practice. The MBA degree program at Liberty University is less than $10,000 for the entire program. Maybe I'll just send him there. He's kind of business smart and he's definitely a great negotiator. Just yesterday he negotiated a 50% cookie increase and then initiated the hostile takeover of my cookie. I think he's ready. As for me I am so ready to start a graduate program.
My plan was to start classes this summer, but I realized that I was burnt out and needed a break. I'm using this break to do the things that I haven't been able to do over past 3 years... You know things like blogging, getting my house in order and sleeping (sleeping may or may not happen, but I'm hopeful). Maybe I'll finally get a chance to introduce myself to our neighbors. We PCSed to Delaware from Hawaii almost a year ago and I really don't know my neighbors. I was pregnant, ended up on bed rest for 5 months and was trying to finish up my last semester when we moved. I introduced myself to one of my next door neighbor who moved two weeks later. I did introduce myself to the new neighbors who moved in about a month later when I went over to ask them to move their car from my driveway. I used to get so excited about new neighbors. I would put on my pretty pink apron and get my Bree Van de Kamp on, baking cookies, making lists of personal recommendations for the area and spreading the "Aloha Spirit". Getting to know my neighbors was important and we've been lucky to have awesome neighbors in the past. Since we moved in 3 new families have moved onto our street, but I haven't made a real attempt to go over and say hi. When we moved to Delaware the welcome wagon never came for us and I might be a little salty or maybe it's the two kids under three years old hanging off my apron as I studied for finals and wrote papers (no, I'm salty) . It's a few months late, but I think when I get back to DE I'm going to load up the kids in the double stroller, go out and meet the neighbors. Hopefully our neighbors will be just as great as our previous neighbors and there will be many back yard BBQs and birthday party invitations in our future.
