Waking when September Ends
Holy crow! Where did September go?!?
It's now a few days into October and that's just nuts. I really did have a good September as I got the kids into a nice routine for school. I also went to a concert at The House of Blues and had a night out with the girls. The down sides being Mikey was home a total of 3 days for the entire month, and really didn't get more miles for his trouble.
Since my last post, things are considerably better. I think I'm coming up with a new game plan. The game plan I've had just hasn't been working the past few years. Yes, I mean years. I graduated college two years ago come this January. As much as I like to think that we are in control of our own lives, of our own destinies... I also think that there are times where things won't happen no matter how much you want them to. Maybe it's cosmic forces, maybe it's our own subconsciouses setting us up for failure, maybe someone elses' plan just takes presidence over yours mucking up your plans. Whatever the case may be, stripping down and looking at all options is about the only thing you can do.
I've decided to not become a nurse. I'm not going to try to save up the money I'll never have to take state boards. I probably wouldn't pass if I tried taking it again. It's been too long. Realistically, it's just been too long and I'm not in the know to find out if there have been changes in the standards. So, the new game plan is to go to graduate school. I did graduate with honors with a bachelor's degree and I'm looking at a few programs having to do with Psychology since that is definitely the field I'm interested in, and where I would have been headed had I become a RN. Planning is in the early stages, but I like this change in plan. I can do something now. I'm not just waiting. I'm moving forward and that's all I ever really wanted anyway.
Anyway, enough about me. The kids are doing well in school. However, an interesting note is that they've done away with the traditional A,B,C standard of grading. Now, for each subject is a list of objectives. The grades come in forms of 3-mastered objective 2-needs improvement 1-no understanding of objective. For example an object for my son is recognizing setting in a story. So far his evaluations of this are 2 bordering on 1 because he just wasn't getting it. So instead of this being reflected in his overall reading score as a B, I get a chance to re-teach my kid this particular objective. Nice huh? Well, we took a lot of his favorite stories and movies and discussed setting and I think he understands. When I asked him the setting of Star Wars he said "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." ... Of course.
I think in the next day or two I'll discuss my concert at The House of Blues and new artists/albums that have been the soundtrack of my fall so far.
Holy crow! Where did September go?!?
It's now a few days into October and that's just nuts. I really did have a good September as I got the kids into a nice routine for school. I also went to a concert at The House of Blues and had a night out with the girls. The down sides being Mikey was home a total of 3 days for the entire month, and really didn't get more miles for his trouble.
Since my last post, things are considerably better. I think I'm coming up with a new game plan. The game plan I've had just hasn't been working the past few years. Yes, I mean years. I graduated college two years ago come this January. As much as I like to think that we are in control of our own lives, of our own destinies... I also think that there are times where things won't happen no matter how much you want them to. Maybe it's cosmic forces, maybe it's our own subconsciouses setting us up for failure, maybe someone elses' plan just takes presidence over yours mucking up your plans. Whatever the case may be, stripping down and looking at all options is about the only thing you can do.
I've decided to not become a nurse. I'm not going to try to save up the money I'll never have to take state boards. I probably wouldn't pass if I tried taking it again. It's been too long. Realistically, it's just been too long and I'm not in the know to find out if there have been changes in the standards. So, the new game plan is to go to graduate school. I did graduate with honors with a bachelor's degree and I'm looking at a few programs having to do with Psychology since that is definitely the field I'm interested in, and where I would have been headed had I become a RN. Planning is in the early stages, but I like this change in plan. I can do something now. I'm not just waiting. I'm moving forward and that's all I ever really wanted anyway.
Anyway, enough about me. The kids are doing well in school. However, an interesting note is that they've done away with the traditional A,B,C standard of grading. Now, for each subject is a list of objectives. The grades come in forms of 3-mastered objective 2-needs improvement 1-no understanding of objective. For example an object for my son is recognizing setting in a story. So far his evaluations of this are 2 bordering on 1 because he just wasn't getting it. So instead of this being reflected in his overall reading score as a B, I get a chance to re-teach my kid this particular objective. Nice huh? Well, we took a lot of his favorite stories and movies and discussed setting and I think he understands. When I asked him the setting of Star Wars he said "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." ... Of course.
I think in the next day or two I'll discuss my concert at The House of Blues and new artists/albums that have been the soundtrack of my fall so far.
