It’s done! (and other things)

I finally finished the latest installment of my husband’s website! The website address is http://www.eldonwarrenarts.com. Thanks to Highslide JS, the paintings page turned out very nice. Much thanks for sharing the code for this very cool pop up!

And the other things? My son is doing much better in school this year and I’m not sure what happened. I’m getting more certain every day that’s it’s going to be a good year. Maybe the best year he’s had in a long time.

He is looking at colleges and has several teachers who are giving him good advice and being very honest about what it takes to make it through college. He is even talking about graduate school. He is almost anxious to go to school and says most of the time that it was a good day.

So for the other parents who’ve struggled with their unmotivated students, there is hope. Hang in there, support them in their efforts and help them find something they love to do.

D

Catching up – still!

We’ve been going through the house and de-mucking along with the other odds and ends I have to get caught up on.  We’ve collected a lot of stuff in the 8 years we’ve lived here!  The last two years of working mostly on school work didn’t help either.  I think I’m going to be catching up for a long time; finding things I promised to do and forgot about, things I put off because I was too stressed and the daily tasks that I dread.

My son is settling into school and seems to be doing a little better this year.  He has a group of friends he hangs out with at school and they get together during the weekends.  I’m taking the approach that since this is his senior year he is will decide his own future.  I’m trying to keep updated and ask him what he needs to help him be successful, but this is his show.

He’s taking a full load, but his attitude is a lot better this year.  He loves his psychology and philosophy classes and is hoping to major in psychology in college.  He really enjoys his chemistry class (much better than biology) and he’s considering minoring in chemistry.  I’m trying to get organized enough to get the senior meeting schedule added to my other meetings and things I try to get done each week.  How in the world did I work, go to school and stay sane during the last two years?  I’m having trouble finding enough time to work and look for an Instructional Design job!  Somehow I’ve got to squeeze in driving time for my son so that he’ll have his license in the next several months and then we get to buy him a car.  Fun days!