Where in the double hockey sticks we've been....

I cant even begin to fill in everything that we've been up too since the last time I wrote.  All I can say, is that being a full time mommy and a full time wife and a full time student has definitely caught up to me!  I have just completed my 3rd to last semester ***two*** left now!  THANK THE LORD!  I head into my internship in the fall!!! YAY!!! This time next year I will have my BSW and about 40,000 in college loans to pay back! So excited!!!!  No, but really, I am truly blessed to have been given the opportunity and strength and support to go back to school and finish up.  I am hoping to make a difference in many lives.  I will not be stopping when I finish, I will be going onto Grad School, and just being the 1st person in my family (other than my DH and his family) to be getting my Bachelors is an honor.

Speaking of honor, we lost the rock of our family.  (which is part of the reason I have neglected my blog so much, I've had writers block)  My father in law passed in December, right before Christmas after battling terminal brain cancer that was diagnosed on 4 short weeks earlier.  He is the ONLY reason I went back to school.  He pushed me.  He stopped his studies so that he could watch our youngest and I could become a college grad.  It breaks my heart.  It also breaks my heart that he was my youngest best friend.  He was our glue. 

So now that I am done with school for the time being, I am going to pay more attention to my little journal online and try my HARDEST to post more.  I am heading to Greece in 12 days for 12 days!  This is a school trip, for credits!  I am traveling without family (just classmates and a professor) and am very nervous.  I'm not sure how this is going to be.  I've NEVER been away from my little one for this long and I'm not going to be able to communicate all that well do to time difference and the cost of calls, so being a stay at home mom, 12 hours away by plane is making me a little, well lets just say....unsettled.