Keys

Yesterday I wrote a post about how much Lily loves to run and how I fear that in the not to distant future I will no longer be able to keep up with her. After writing that post Lily and I took a shower and got ready to go to gymnastics. As we were headed out the door I discovered that I could not find the keys. We searched high and low until I remembered that I had left the keys in the car, all locked up and secure. As I glanced at the clock I discovered that we had five minutes until the bus would come. The bus stop is about a block from my house. I thought surly super speedy Lily could make it a block in five minutes.

As I encouraged her to run she said, I'm sorry Mommy I can't run, I'm too big. Whatever that means. We did make it to the bus on time only because the bus was running 7 minutes behind schedule. We even made it to gymnastics on time only because gymnastics was running late as well.

I tried to leave gymnastics a couple of minutes early so we could make it on the bus going home. However, Lily was very upset with me for this. She was actually quite a bit more than merely upset. So we missed the bus going home and had to wait an hour. There I was on the busiest street in Misawa with a very upset (screaming her head off - throwing herself on the ground) daughter. We were 3 miles from home and I couldn't get her to walk two steps let alone 3 miles. So I took her to Burger King. We had fries and milk. The Burger King fries are coated in flour and make her a little sick. I felt I was between a rock and a hard place and chose the hard place. After eating and drinking Lily's mood improved. We walked to the bus stop and played and giggles for 45 minutes until the bus finally came and got us.

I didn't really get all that stressed out during the whole escapade. A run of bad luck. I think the exercise is helping me with my nerves. Or I have quietly accepted that which I cannot change. Today however, I am so stressed out I can hardly function due to some difficult choices I have to make. One step in front of the other.

The short version is: my school is done with 5 terms per year instead of two. So a full time college student takes 2 classes every term. The terms are 12 weeks long and have a week long break somewhere in the middle. So you see that 12 times 5 is 60 plus 5 extra week long breaks gives one 65 weeks. Therefore the terms overlap. I am currently taking two classes. They are going pretty well. I need to take the next consecutive course for each of these classes, but if I take the next ones it will be overlapping with this term by four weeks. For four weeks I would be taking four classes. And the new 2 classes would be made even more difficult because I wouldn't have finished the pre-requisites completely at the onset. My other choice would be to wait until term 4 which starts in May or June. We will be moving during term 3. I am thinking that with all that time in between I may loose quite a bit of the knowledge. Another rock and a hard place. I think I am going to go for it. I tend to get high A's in these courses so a little extra difficulty will not kill me. But, four classes with the added difficulty might make me crazy. But only for four weeks. Ok that wasn't short.

We are getting very excited about moving back to America. Can't wait to buy our first home. It is all we talk about. The list of the choices we will have comes out Oct 10th. Only a couple of weeks and our choices will be narrowed.