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My life is now back to 100mph... I only have one day off every two weeks (every other sunday) and I have to get up at 6am every morning except for 2 days every 14 days. It sucks because I'm not a morning person at all, but at least it's a schedule that somewhat works for now. I don't even know if I'll be able to stay in school because of tuition/government money disbursement issues, but I'll get to it once I cross that bridge on the 25th. Other than that, I love my classes and my teachers seem very nice so far. I'm taking Physiology, Gen. Chem II, Calculus I, and doing some independent research with Dr. Henry Harpending (click on his name to see his CV) on genetics and evolution. I haven't narrowed down my research hypothesis quite yet but I'll be meeting with him tomorrow to discuss some options, which unfortunately, will require time spent in an actual lab dealing with DNA strands and banks of very old genes from who knows when, and that's a whole other problem (my last research I could do from home).
It's been terribly difficult to find babysitting this semester, but I'm grateful to all of those who offered and are able to do it. I can't thank you enough! I was going to take Genetics this semester but had to switch it with Physiology instead due to not finding anyone to watch Jacen during the times I needed. We could just put him in daycare, but it's hard to make it work when our income is going down now that I switched back to "half-time". I hope the Lord will help us through -yet another- semester of chaos.
Just an update... New Years went well. Our usual cabin trip up to Heber that we do every year didn't happen because of some transportation/time issues. So we chilled in the valley with some good friends of ours. Didn't get pictures because I forgot the camera. We had a wonderful break from school and we got to spend a lot of time together, which was really nice.
Jacen is now wearing Pull-Ups and the whole "cool alert" thing doesn't seem to phase him one bit. I swore I'd never give him candy for PT'ing successes but I've gotten desperate and caved in. Until yesterday he was having at least 2 successes/day and he was getting lots of candy. But we stalled, and I'm not sure why. He's been a crank lately and not sleeping well. He learned he can now get out of bed and pile 8-10 books on his bed and climb back in to read. Or he'll stand at the door and pound his fist on it to be let out (like today, I had to guide him back to bed 11 times for nap time- no exageration!). This "terrible two's" thing is not sitting well with me. I don't know if I want to do it again later in life. We'll wait and see...
BTW, I was wondering if anyone does any couponing. I'm interested but it seems very time consuming and like it's rocket science. If any of you have any suggestions or ideas on how to do it effectively, please comment! I'd love to hear from ya. I started looking into but it sounds so difficult!!! Help!
It'll be a while until I update this thing again, maybe March sometime. I got busy!
(Sorry, no pictures, I'm in a hurry today...)