Back to school

I started back to school last Wed., the 23rd. So far I have already had too much homework. I am not a big fan of homework because that should be family time. We don't ever seem to have enough of that lately with Nick having his job and his girlfriend and everything else going on. It was a busy week-end with the marriage/parenting thing going on. It wasn't a good week-end for Kevin. He has a tooth that was infected and his face swelled up and he was running fever and saying "just let me die and get it over with". The bad thing was at the time he was serious. He has been through this before and it never is pretty. But luckily Dr. Denson got him in at 8:30 this morning, drilled down into the tooth (without any painkiller), and let it drain. He feels so much better now. I am glad that he is getting back to normal even though I am the target of being picked on since Nick is working tonight. Oh wait, he has conked out in the chair. Peace and quiet at last. Back to reading a book- my most favorite thing to do. See ya'll later!

Life Changes

You've always heard: "Your life can change in an instant". How true that is. I'm sure most of you know by now that Kevin lost his job last Tuesday due to cutbacks in the company he worked for. I still have one more semester of school. We have talked it over and decided that I need to finish. We have gotten better at stretching the little bit of money we have and we will just have to stretch even further. There are things we will have to do like take Nick's braces off early. He's ok with that because he is tired of the metal in his mouth anyway. We'll have to come up with some other things we can do without next. Maybe I can get a lot of old junk together and have a Garage sale. You never know what you can do until you have to "Just Do It!" You notice I am trying to be positive here: I have two other people depending on me to try to be strong. I really am trying, but I hope they forgive me if sometimes I am not so strong. I am only human, after all. I don't know what God has planned for us so I will have to listen extra hard. I know He is looking out for us because of recent events. I would like to thank you'all for all the phone calls and help that has been given to us. I start back to school Wednesday, so that will help keep my mind off things, I hope. I am ready to get that finished up. I only have 3 classes, but due to scheduling I have to go to McGehee every day. MWF I go from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and if I didn't have someone to carpool with then I couldn't make it because of gasoline prices. Well, you'all please keep on praying and we'll keep on pressing on. Thanks again.

Short post

I was going to blog about our experience this week-end, but I knew my wonderful husband could tell the story so much better than me. For a great (true) story go to www.kevinstox.blogspot.com. There's nothing going on with me right now, so maybe I'll write something later. I sure miss my daughter. Hopefully, we plan to go to see them on Labor Day week-end if nothing happens and I can scrape enough money together. Out for now............

Ridin' Around Town

My newest adventure would be teaching my 16-year-old son, Nick, to drive. It's been quite an adventure so far. I have been letting him drive around town when I know the traffic won't be too bad. Not during lunch or afternoon when a lot of people are driving. The place I hate the worst is the strip in front of Wal-Mart. That whole stretch of road is just dangerous. He really has been doing ok as long as he pays attention to what he is doing. It really has amazed me that even though he never listens to me, he has been listening to me while he drives. I am very impressed with this and it has really made things easier for me. If anybody has any suggestions please let me know- all will be appreciated. It has really hit me hard lately that my children are grown or almost grown. Nick has a girlfriend- long distance- named Danielle & I love her- she's great! She lives in Stratford, Ct. and they talk on the phone and over the internet constantly. They already have trips planned as soon as they can make enough money for plane tickets. And then there's Kristie- getting married last month and moving to Emporia, Ks. this week-end. Whatever am I gonna do without my little girl close by? Pause for crying session.............it's just now sinking in that she's gonna be gone- and ssssoooo far away!! Better go for now, it's just gonna get soggier. More later.