Summer Is Here...Or Is It?

School is out, and the weather, up until today has been very wet and stormy. Doesn't feel at all like summer, yet. School is out and it is supposed to be summer, which means warm sunshine, strawberries, and endless outside activities, right? Doesn't the weather know that? Well, today was gorgeous, not too hot and not too cold, and sunshine!
Well, I am going to make it official, I have gone back to school! I don't mean work, in that I get paid, but the kind where I am the student and work very hard! A few years back I went back to school and got my Medical Transcription Diploma. Unfortunately I never used it to get a job, long story behind that. Well I am going back again, this time to get my Healthcare Coding Diploma. Combined with my Medical Transcriptionist Diploma, I have a very large field of jobs to choose from in the medical field. Why now? I have enjoyed my job at the Warrenton Grade School, especially this past year as a Title 1 Ed Assistant, teaching kindergarteners to read! I will continue that job also in the coming couple of years. But now my youngest will be a senior this coming school year, and it will take approximately 18 months to get my diploma. It will no longer be necessary to have a schedule that coincides with my children, because I will have no children in school, unless it is college. And which along with that schedule is fewer hours and less pay. So, on to bigger and better things.
Jack has gone back to school and is heading into the medical field as well. He is looking at becoming a Physical Therapists Assistant. His move came about as he started incurring more health issues, one being a frozen shoulder which took him off work for a couple months on disability, and the most current of which is vertigo, which hinders him from driving truck. His doctor told him that when his DOT medical card comes due soon, they will not allow him to renew it, as he now has a history of vertigo. We look at this turn of events as God steering him into another direction for making a living. We actually are both asking ourselves, why didn't we do this sooner!?
We are both currently experiencing a bit of what it is like to have "empty nest syndrome", as well. Our youngest is away for the summer, working for his auntie. It is Jack and I, niether of us working, accept school work. We are saving a bundle on groceries without a starving, growing, teenager in our midst! We are also doing more activities together.
I am going to go for now, as the hour is getting late. We just got back from the Midsummer Scandinavian Festival's corination of the queen. We will be going back later tomorrow afternoon for more festivities. But an early morning is coming, as I and my girlfriends are headed to Cannon Beach for the 50th Anniversary of the Sandcastle Contest! A very fun filled weekend planned.
So Goodnight, until my next post, Live Life to the fullest, you never know when God is going to call you home!

Time Is Flying!!

Not liking how time seems to just fly by! Seems I am watching myself from a distance. The days seem to speed past without a look back at the destruction that is being left in its wake. The things I would like to get done, are not getting done. The things I want to spend my time doing, are not even happening. A thought for an attempted agenda for the coming days, becomes just that, a thought, without any activity to being productive. Sigh... Maybe I need a vacation somewhere warm to thaw out and become "Spring", blooming, and blossoming with new growth and beauty. To become productive, and not seem to be in the dormant stage of "Winter"!?
Just musing and waiting for the real spring! Still a lot of storms, with wind and rain!

Just musing.... and waiting...