Personal Progress

I have decided that I will be doing Personal Progress again. I had been contemplating this for a couple of months now and decided early last week that I would buy a book and start. Last night I sat down and started looking through the book and seeing what I had to do. As I was looking through the book I started remembering when I was a young woman and starting my Personal Progress. I felt so overwhelmed as to everything I had to do. This time I read it and have to try to adapt the value experiences to my situation. There are so many things about a future home and family. Since I already have the beginnings of my family (a wonderful husband) I have to adapt some of the experiences to meet my needs. I no longer write about my goals to go to the temple to receive my endowments and to be sealed to my husband. I guess I can change them to how to stay worthy to enter the temple and attend the temple regularly. I know I can make my own value experiences, but I can never think of anything so I just use what is given to me as a guide. A lot of my experiences are surrounding sewing and creating things. I have such a huge lack of that skill that I think it would be something nice to learn so that I will be able to mend my clothing, create new things for my home, and even make my own clothing (that's a little ambitious, but who knows, it could happen, right?). I write this because this is my journal and will be writing a lot about my experiences as I go through this whole journey of Personal Progress again. Just a warning :)

Parent-Teacher Conference

Parent-Teacher Conference day is one of the best days of the school year. I have never seen more than six parents even today. Actually, I have talked to two parents that I saw in teh ahll and wanted to say hi to and that is it. I thought I would have more parents come in and want to talk with me, but no dice. It's a little nice to be like that. Now, I can get all caught up on the work I need to get caught up on. Whew!

The Life

It's been a few weeks since the last time I was able to write. My computer at home is starting to fail me and since I had to change some things with the internet through my provider, my internet is not working on my computer. When I go home I am either cleaning, making dinner, or vegging out and falling asleep on the couch so I have not been on to write in a while. Some interesting things have happened the past couple of weeks. General Conference was the first week of October and boy was it the spiritual enlightenment I needed! General Conference helped give me a new, refreshed outlook on life right now. I feel so much better after receiving such great insight and inspiration from the leaders of the church. The positivity that comes from conference helps increase my confidence. I know I have things that I need to work on right now, but I feel better about where I am in my life and what I am suppose to be doing. General Conference rocks! It is still on our DVR so I can go back and listen to a talk when I need that little extra boost.

Leland is still struggling a little with the bronchitis, but is sounding much better. I think it's been three weeks with this thing but it is finally starting to clear up, yay! I hate it when someone else is going through an illness or situation that I can't help them with. Now, since things are better I don't have to worry so much. Leland is also counting down the number of games he has left to ref football. he's down to 13 more games. He's sad, but it can only help him with his school work and seminary stuff. I found funny when he told me last night over dinner that he is no longer the nite owl he use to be because if seminary. Did my ears just deceive me? My husband admitting to no longer being a nite owl? I thought that would never happen, but it did and I love it! His research is coming along slowly. He had a definitive end date in May, but now he's just hoping to get done by then. I just want him finished with school already! Mostly so I can start saving more to go and get my docorate or another master's in school counseling or something
like that. Overall, he's doing well and things are going in a positive direction.

Work is crazy and busy, but what's new? I had to deal with a situation in which I thought I would have to call the police again, after talking to the mom we decided that the girl was lying. She claimed that she had been sexually assaulted at school towards the end of the year last year and that it had happened again by the same kid two weeks ago at school. That is what her boyfriend told another kid at the school and that kid came to me. So the investigation started and the end result was that she was lying. Thankfully, the parent really likes the school and knew that what her daughter was telling us was false. How do we know it was false? Her stories never matched up. It's hard to keep all the lies straight. She even had to ask me what she had said before in our first meeting the second time she came in to my office. The first and second meeting were only about 30 minutes apart. How else did we know? The timelines were different from story to story. With some of the things she was saying and how everything went down there is no way in such a little school that not one person would have walked in on it happening. We have sixth graders with bladders the size of a quarter so some kid would have had to go to the bathroom during the time she was talking about and would have seen everything that was going on. Plus, she had said it was student in the school that doesn't go to the school anymore, but when looking at pictures and trying to find the kid who matched the description, she couldn't point to anyone and there were no kids that matched the description. Why she would tell a story so huge, I don't know. But it really made me upset that she would do that. You hear about things like that all the time and until you are involved in something like that you ahve no idea how much it hoovers. What is going on with our kids today that they think they can tell things like that and not expect it to be a huge deal? Whatevs.

Things are plugging along and life is going. I just continue to hope that things continue to be positive. I know trials will occur and things won't always be smooth, but I look forward to all the new experiences and knowledge that I will gain from it all.