We are all back in school now, including me! Emma Grace and I started last Monday and Kiley started today.
Emma Grace is in Traditional Kindergarten, Monday- Friday from 9-1. She's over at my mom's preschool (I say my mom's because she's the Assistant Director) and she loves it. I was shocked as to what they will be learning. I remember playing when I was in preschool, and learning my colors and numbers, not reading, writing and math. Times have changed! She is so eager to wanna learn to read. She sees Kiley reading and wants so badly to do the same.
I am taking 2 classes, one online and one in the classroom. I go Monday and Wednesdays to class, which is Photoshop CS3, I'm really excited about it, it's been almost 10 years since I took a Photoshop class. The online class is a computer class, I'm learning EVERYTHING about the computer, even stuff I don't wanna know (like the inside of the computer).
Kiley started 2nd grade today and had the "best day of my life", her own words, so funny! She got the teacher she wanted (and I wanted). Her teacher told me she actually requested Kiley, I thought that was SO sweet and it made me feel so good, that someone wants to teach my child. She knows several of the kids in her class. I have a feeling this is going to be a really good school year for her.
So now Ryan, Lathan and me get to spend some time together. Lathan is getting so big. He has started walking, but if he needs to get somewhere quick, he goes back into the crawl mode. He's still trying to talk and has started saying Emma, in the last couple days. So glad I get some one on one with my baby boy this year. They grow up so fast.
And that brings me to Ryan. You all know, Ryan had worked for the restoration business for the last 2 years. The money was good but the quality time with the family was nonexistent. God really put into prospective what was important to us. We prayed that God would show us the way, and that he did. Ryan, has now gone back to logistics (which is what he did for 9 years before restoration) and we are so at peace. I look at what we went through in the last 2 years and I am grateful that God allowed us to see what we needed to see. In all this we got so much, our marriage has never been stronger, our family has never been stronger, our faith has never been stronger. My needs and wants are so much different now. I thank God because I know, had Ryan never tired a new career field, we would of probably not had another baby and I would of never considered furthering my education, and our needs and wants would have never been clarified by God's standards. God amazes me daily in the way he works. We choose to see the blessing that lied beneath. We are forever grateful for this experience. With Ryan's new job, he was able to work 2nd shift, allowing me to go back to school. What a blessing! As Ryan says (sings half the time, but we won't go there) How great is our GOD?
