Semester from Hell!

So, the last couple months have been difficult, mainly because of school. This past semester has been insanely hard and I'm not sure how I have survived it so well (well, probably because I have amazing friends that are also in school with me AND work with me.)  Right now, as I procrastinate on my blog, I have open on my computer the worst "paper" I have ever had to write: a single spaced, 11 point font, (up to) 20 page,  pseudo grant proposal.  This gem of an assignment was dropped on us by our teacher about two or so weeks ago.  It has taken at least 15 hours of group-study time to get it to where it is now, and it's not even completed yet. Oh, and did I mention that it is due tomorrow (with a 20 minute power point presentation she didn't tell us about until last Tuesday??)??  So, needless to say, my sanity is gone.  May 5th is the magical day this semester that all of this will go away and my brain can rest for a while.

If it weren't for Eric caring for Cloee while I am at school/work for at least 15 hours a day, three days a week, I don't know what I would do.  Yesterday she flew her first kite and did an amazing job :) I can't wait to have a little break to spend time with Cloee.  I know she is only young once, but I also know that all of my hard work in school will make her life better in the long run.  Only four semesters left, and then I'm DONE!!!

I gotta get back to the paper.....blah.

First Post

Hello everyone who chooses to read our blog! I decided that I would like to try to document our adventures over the next two years.  Eric and I will be completing our last two years of college in Az, and then we'll see where we go from there.  For those of you who don't know: I'm working on my Masters in Social Work and Eric is working on his Associates in Biology (for now, we'll see if that changes once he take's his first Chemistry class:). We are both expected to graduate in May 2013.  We will be making a big life change then. A move, new job(s), who knows.  Cloee starts Kindergarten this August.  She will be staying in the same school she has been in since she was two.  They have a charter Kinder and 1st grade.  We got lucky with that, because we will not have to look for a new school for her until May 2013 as well.  It all comes together then, so we will have to wait and see what happens.

So, we do a lot of zoo trips, hiking adventures, and drives through the mountains. We also do an insane amount of college work, ballet dance recitals, and remedial training on how to raise a child (hey, I'm new at this!)  All of these things, I'm sure, will be posted in some fashion on this blog.  I hope to keep a record of what could be the most difficult time in our lives, so when we are where we want to be, we can look at this and say, "if we can survive that, we can survive anything!"  I'll try to post at least once a week.  We always have something interesting going on.

Will post again soon...I'm off to try to get Clo in to bed (wish me luck!)