Enough already...

So between blood work, dr. visits, manufacturing companies that are not at all easy to deal with, two month behind in productions, wanting to start school, kids schedules, Blue and Gold Dinners, a sliced eye, migraines, and life in general.....I want to say "enough" and crawl back in bed and watch movies for two days. Actually life is not as bad as that sounds....but there are times I think, ok when is that down time people talk about. I guess this is just the season of my life I am in.

So the whole sliced eye thing - have to share that one. So my two year old ended up in our bed and about 3:30 am he started moving around. I turned to see if he was ok and just as i did - I opened my eye as he moved his hand across my face and his nail sliced the top layer of my eye. PAIN PAIN PAIN! It felt like a million eyelashes stuck in my eye. After a very long night - my husband dropped me off at the eye doctor while he ran to a meeting real fast. The dr. said that he had to clean the edge of the top sliced layer so it would heal ok. he also said after that he would put a band-aid contact lens on to protect it. And that be happy we have those now. Because before the contact lens they use they would drug the person up and make them sleep for two days because of the pain. I assured him I could not sleep for two days - because that night I was in charge and hosting the Blue and Gold Dinner or our Ward for 120+ people. I was suppose to be at the Church decorating at that moment.

After scraping 3/4 of the top layer away - and telling me take pain meds and come back tomorrow - I waited for my DH to come pick me up. Got home around 9:30 am and was down at the Church an hour later with two other people decorating. That night dinner was started at 6 pm and went great! Had almost 130 people there and wonderful entertainment! That night when I finally stopped and laid down around 10 pm the pain hit me full force. I think being busy - even though it was hurting - it was not as bad as it would have been if I was laying around and not busy.

By two days later it felt much better - and now a week later - it is still a little tender to the touch and a little blurry still - but it is amazing how the body can heal it self like that.

No one will ever be able to convince me that we are not created from God. That we just happened over time. Our bodies are just too amazing to think otherwise!

Now back to the title - life is not that bad or anything - I just think the last two weeks have been just a bit crazy and none stop. I also think if I could eliminate all the dr. visits and bills from them I would be a lot happier too. Hopefully that will happen sooner than later - since it has been a year since all this started with me. I think we are getting closer to a definite answer.

Well, here is hoping for a little break tomorrow while the family and I head to SLC to meet with a company that hopefully can direct me to a new manufacturer!

School....for me!

So I have been looking at going back to school for myself. I know crazy, huh? I mean I have 5 children - 1 of which is still home - a business to run and headed into the busy season - I'm Cub Master - and just all the everyday things of running a home and keeping a family going. But here is the cool thing I found out. At BYU-I where my husband works I can go to school for free. They have basic classes you HAVE to take no matter your major they call Foundation Classes. A lot of them are offered as on-line courses. So over the next few years or so I can take up to three classes per semester as a non-traditional student. And I can take most on-line.

I am plan on taking just one class at a time this first year and see how the family life handles it. I have no deadline of when I want to be done with my degree. But by going this route I never have to leave my home for classes until my youngest is in School full time. This also allows me to get the basic classes done without having to declare (or decide) on a major right this moment.

I really do not know what I will major in. I could do business/communications degree so I am open to a lot of different jobs if needed. Plus starting and running my own company could be a plus for this one.

Education degree so I could teach and have the same schedule as my kids. My dream job would be a elementary school librarian. How fun would that be to read children lit. to know what to recommend to kids - and reading time to classes each day.

I am good with numbers so I could get a degree in accounting and work from my home doing that if need be. I just do not know.

If I could do any degree without thinking about long term back up plan if something happened to my husband - I would study photography. I have always been drawn to black and white photography.

I guess there is quite a long time before I have to decide. For now I am just excited to be working on getting accepted in school for the Spring Semester. Taking baby steps over a long period of time to accomplish the goal of graduating from college - with any degree - will be great! So hopefully it works out and by mid-summer I will have my first college class of this adventure done!