Kindergarten

Wow...Connor started Kindergarten this week. It's amazing how fast time goes by. People always tell you how fast it goes, but no one actually believes them until you experience it for yourself. I vividly remember the day that he was born. I had to be to the hospital by 6 am to be induced...low and behold, I could hardly sleep the night before! I woke up, showered, made sure I had all of my stuff and off we went. I could barely believe that we were leaving the house that morning to have our baby. It was so surreal. I got to the hospital, they admitted me and I got into my "lovely" gown! My pitocin was started, and the fun began! Mom showed up around 9 am or so and we hung out for awhile. I don't remember what time it was when I asked for my epidural, but I do remember that I needed it, badly! It must have been around noon or so because a few hours later Connor was born. The epidural was causing me to itch and prior to the epidural I was involuntarily shaking because of the pain. It was crazy. It didn't scare me though, because somehow I knew it was normal. Anyways, around 3:30pm I started pushing, and 4 pushes later, he was out. It was extremely easy. Not like I envisioned. Next thing I knew he was on my chest and I was talking to him telling him it was all ok, because he was with me now. I was thrilled when all it took at that moment to get him to stop crying was hearing my voice. It was a miracle. The moment I would stop talking to him, he would start up again. I had never felt so special in my entire life. This ceased to work after a few hours, but those first few were awesome!!

Now he is in Kindergarten. It's beyond crazy! He had his little backpack with all of his supplies and he was rarin' to go! And so far he loves it, thank God! I'm sure one day he won't think it is quite so cool, but for now I'm happy that he likes it. Today is his 3rd day and he still wanted me to walk him to his class, but I'm hoping next week he will be brave enough to go at it alone. But if not, I'm happy walking him for now. I'm sure now that he is in school, he won't think he needs me quite as much. Which will be both good and bad. Maybe not bad, but sad. I guess I still have another one to need me and hopefully a baby soon. So I won't be totally useless!!!

Random thoughts and plans...

Hey! First off, we just got home from camping. Which was...umm, busy. It's the first we've taken the boys camping this year and it was interesting. They both have colds, so that didn't help. But we also hauled along two 4-wheelers, which took up massive amounts of space so I didnt have room to put in their big metal dump trucks. I was really hoping we would have room for them because it would have kept them occupied for hours I'm sure. All in all it was a fun trip. A few fits were thrown here and there but nothing to major. We swam and went 4-wheeling and played some games which was fun. The river was mighty cold but no one seemed to notice, except me! I also got a few mesquito bites (so much for bug spray!), the worst one is on my neck. Ugh...it sucks! But I'm glad the boys didn't end up with any. They are to good at dealing with being miserable!
New topic. We have a plan. Mom and I are heading back to school this spring. Well I'm heading back and mom is starting for the first time. We are going to become RN's. Our plan is to get student loans for the entire thing, then after we graduate we are going to move to Alaska for a couple of years. Why?? Well, Alaska is hurting for nurses pretty badly because they are willing to pay off all of your student debt and pay you almost double what you can make here. John's mom has a friend that did the same thing and after her 2 or 3 year contract was up she came home, debt free with $200,000 in the bank. I think I can handle the cold for that! We also found a small town that we like. It's called Skagway. They only have a population of 800 year round and about 2,000 in the summer months. But what I like so much about this town, is a few things actually. One, it is accessible by road from the lower 48. It's right on the water. It only gets an average of 3 feet of snow in town. Their water doesn't have to be filtered at all, it comes from an underground lake full of glacier water! Delicious! And the school there has a 7 to 1 student/teacher ratio, there graduating class has an average of 5-7 students a year. This year they have 9, which a big class! I personally like a bigger school, but what's cool is that each of the graduating students graduate with honors (due to the teacher/student ratio), and the best part is that the business' in town all donate money to the graduating students and they get so much money that all of them can afford to go to any college in the country. Free to them. That would be awesome. What a great opportunity. Not that I would live there for that long, but still.