I can almost breathe

Well...life sure has been moving fast for me this semester. I just don't feel like I've had any time to do anything...really. I definitely have seen a decrease of time in seeing Kiernan and Bryan. I always feel like I'm going in and out of the door. I come home from something, 10 minutes later I'm out the door. Basically, my schedule for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday looks like this:

Work 8 AM-10:30AM, come home, feed Kiernan, get things for school together, eat lunch, go out the door for field experience at 11:30, stay there until 3:15, come home, feed Kiernan or pump, leave at 4:00 to go to class, get home at 7:30, feed Kiernan or pump, do homework for the rest of the night, go to bed around 10 or 11.

Wednesday, I have no class at night, so I work instead.

Friday I have no class or field experience, so I take the chance to work from 8-5.

Quite frankly, I'm doggone tired. Especially after last week and this week. Homework has just been piling on, and it's been insane. I had 15 readings to do this week, and that many reading responses. I also had a language assessment/summary report due, a cognitive assessment summary due, and I was going to have my research paper due on Thursday, but my teacher heard I was out of town this past weekend and said I can turn it in a week late with no penalty. That took a HUGE load off my shoulders. I've also had two observations done so far in my field experience, and have one more on Thursday.

I went to my orientation for my Helen Keller Fellowship over the weekend in Biloxi, Mississippi. It was incredibly fun, and a major information overload. It was well worth it though. I met some wonderful ladies there, and enjoyed being able to talk with people in my profession who understood the different things that need to happen in the special education field. The hotel was awesome, literally right across the street from the beach, and the water was the perfect temp to go walking in. the best part of it all, I had my own room and got to sleep THROUGH THE NIGHT. I obviously missed Bryan and Kiernan, but man, that sleep was just wonderful. I'm excited to pursue this opportunity and continue to work these wonderful ladies.

My field experience has been incredibly fun. I definitely miss being in the classroom and/or working directly with kids. An opportunity has come up to do that as a job while in school, but I'll wait on details for that to see if it actually pans out.

Kiernan is now just over ten months old. He's so much fun! He's got eight teeth now, loves to dance (he dances to basically any music most of the time), getting braver with standing up for long periods of time now, laughs a
lot, sleeps a lot less, eats a lot more solids, smiles a lot, and is getting more curious everyday. :) He's really a great kid. I'll end this with a picture of him doing something I wish he would do more often :)

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