a Little Bit of Us: Just stoppin in

Man, I haven't been blogging very long and I sure did miss posting! I kept reading other's posts and having photo challenge envy! I missed entering them. Then I learned a very frustrating and valuable lesson. I took Emma to the park yesterday after work. We played some and I got a few good pictures of her. I got home, hooked my camera up to my laptop and went to uploading them... Picasa updated in the middle of my upload and since I had chosen for Picasa to delete all the pictures after uploading... they are gone. I also had a picture of a Rainbow from the other night after the horrendous storms... Which incidentally, I was going to enter into Jennifer and Nicole's "Theme Thursday" photo challenge "signs" as a sign that the earth would never be flooded again.

I spent the rest of the evening trying to recover the deleted photos from the card on my camera just to realize that it's not going to happen. I don't know why it's so hard to let a few pictures go like that. I can take them all over again. I'm sure they weren't great, but I just keep seeing them in my mind. I know, I'm slightly crazy lol.

Anyhoo, I've got one test down, 2 to go and this semester will be done with. I am taking this summer off. I don't know if I told you guys or not, I am going to school parttime for Medical Office Systems Technology. Without my husbands help there is no way that I can support both me and Emma on one job. So with this major I can get certified in Medical transcription and medical records and billing. That way I can possibly have a 2nd job that I do at home. Or I can chose to manage a medical office (which I still don't think would pay enough to support us both). I hate the thought of working so much that I never see Emma. I know that is not what God intended.

To tell you the truth, I thought school would be easier for me now that I'm older, but I didn't take into account that I am older and work full time and have a child... My first full semester I took 13 hrs... I don't know what I was thinking, it about killed me. This semester I only took 9, it was much better, but still hard. I am worn out and ready for a break. When I went in to take my test today I felt a weight lift off of my shoulders!

I hope this isn't boring. I will post some pictures from my past photo excursions that you may not have seen.

I edited this one because I wanted Emma to pop, but you can see the lines where I edited it around her body.