Can you believe it is already August!?! It has been a fall like summer. Who could NOT love it!! I am in heaven! Life at the Rawlings is still pretty much the same. Back on the bottom of the mountain and trying to fight our way back up. Some things in life seem to be a struggle be it the finances and keeping from totally sinking (I guess my experience from my childhood is helping) or it being us finding our way through our days without our routine we once all had. Interesting though…I never thought of myself living with a routine. I always figured I was a “go with the flow” kinda person. I am finding this is not the case within the home life. I like routine! At least to a certain degree. Logan has registration this up coming week at Appleton West. Imagine that, the only one not to go to Appleton North. After deciding where we were going to send him I am questioning weather or not I made the right choice. I am kinda thinking I should have kept him at ANH because he knows a lot of the teachers, coaches ect… I ask myself would he feel more confident going into a school that he knows some of the teachers and coaches verses starting fresh and being known for himself and not as “Tyler’s little brother” or “Cayla and Brooke’s little brother”. He is pretty much known as “Little Rawlings” at ANH. At AWH he will be known as Logan. The other thing I worry about is how he will transition to the high school. I pray it will go okay.
Cayla has decided to change schools and change her career path. She is choosing to follow the Occupational Therapy Degree. When she is done she will possibly go on to get a degree in Special Ed and work the two together some how. Brooke goes to school year round with a week or two here and there. She is finally being challenged. She is also thinking about changing her degree to what the original program was that she was interested in which was criminal justice . Tyler has one more semester to go and he should be done if he can work the two or three classes in together and jive with each other. I also decided to not continue nursing. I actually changed this past week. I finished my English class (and passed!) and the first math class and am ½ way thru my business math. I have decided to go for Computer programming and analyst. I am hoping this is the right career path to finish with. All I know is I want to make some good money for the last 25-30 years that I have left to work and LIKE the job I am doing. I have talked to many people that have graduated from the nursing program and there is nothing out there. No one is hiring RNs and there are a lot in the program now and there are a lot that are waiting to get in. I think that is one of the main reasons I decided to change. It is very tough out there I guess no matter what you are looking for.
Tonight I went to the old Outagamie County Insane Asylum ( Old photos….http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=U0&Date=20070503&Category=APCNEWS&ArtNo=705030804&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=1 Article…. http://www.postcrescent.com/article/99999999/APC0101/70831142/0/specials01 ) with the girls. They went last night and well it pretty much freaked them out. They heard and saw and felt all different kinds of things. I didn’t seem to hear what they were tonight (maybe because their flip flops were floppin) or saw what Cayla saw, but I did feel something. What is it you ask? To start with in certain areas I felt a cool breeze on my face. As we looked at the trees with a flashlight they were as still as could be. As I walked deeper into the cemetery and stopped by a specific tree the breeze felt stronger. As if I was riding on the moped at a slow speed with the wind in my face. We all looked up at the trees again to see if it was just the wind. Again….trees as still as can be. The girls mentioned to me how much more calm the area felt than last night. I am a firm believer that spirits can feel the calmness of ones presence which will make a big difference. If you are ever up for an adventure….head over to the cemetery (with an open mind and open senses) in the wee hours of the night and see what you experience. If you want to enjoy it more and get a kick out of it with a good laugh…take a few female young adults. Just try to withdraw the urge of scaring them if they are ahead of you. Trust me the urge is there big time. I laugh just thinking about it.
Living Life 