Prayers are answered in time

Well my prayers are answered- time heals everything. Don't know yet how this problem will resolve itself but I feel confident that we'll be fine. My heart is full and my nerves are calm. See I'm offering to fork over the dough to change the plane tickets and I imagine that Mike will eventually agree. Otherwise he'll be getting a letter that informs him the children will not fly with him and I will drive them at the end of June. So whether he makes it easy or complicated is up to him, but I will not be pushed around. He called this morning and left a message that he wanted to talk about the summer visitation so that is a good sign when the past two weeks have consisted of him hanging up on me and ignoring reasonable suggestions. I am avoiding calling him back because we call in the evening and not during the day. Otherwise he expects me to be home 24/7 and he really doesn't need to know what my schedule is. So we should have this wrapped up soon enough.

My Mom is visting us here this week and we'll be picking her up at the airport on Friday. I am anxious as we've not had an family here yet. So we are getting spring cleaning done in honor of her arrival. I would have put it off until May otherwise. I'm glad that I'm getting it knocked out now. The kids put on my stockpile of hand-me-down clothes and they are set for shorts and sandals. All we have to worry about is the rest.

Josh is still looking for work and is discouraged as the local police departments aren't hiring at the moment. One of the departments will start going through their applications in May and he probably has a job in another field come April 1. So we are crossing our fingers and are praying that it pans out.

God keeps watching out for us though as my after school class is finished this month and I can get paid for it in my next check so Josh being out of work won't hurt us too much.

I'm taking the summer off- I thought about teaching a summer class. I even sent in my application but decided I needed some down time. I have to get caught up on my reading for my courses and this leaves me free to take inservice oppurtunities this summer.

Hope this finds you well. God Bless you all!

The Tragedy of Othello

I took my senior students to see a Shakespeare play and while most of them behaved themselves, I am amazed by how similiar our youth are to Shakespeare's audience. The audience for the play was composed of seniors, honors 11th and 10th graders and still they talked through the entire play, hooted and whistled because the characters were attractive and laughed at inappropiate moments. I had to block out laughing as a character mourned the death of another character. If our youth is really this corse then I imagine that we are in for a world of hurt. It scares me that students can't figure out how to behave in this world and have zero self restraint. Fortanetly I will be and am an optimist if we don't try to change the situation then it falls back on our shoulders. As for the parents that are raising these kids well god help them. The method of letting kids make decisions and being sweet and positive discipline turns them into spoiled rotten self centered children who grow up to be spoiled rottten self centered adults. What an eye-opener!!