Take The Plunge

I have been talking to a enrollment counselor with CCU. It's set up in a better way than Ashford, and I feel I would get a better chance of getting my meteorology degree than transferring environmental science credits. According to Mississippi State's transfer credits website, only three of my credits would transfer with the track I am on with Ashford. Why do I have to make things complicated? I would still finish out my classes and I could start in May with CCU. I will have taken English Comp I and English Comp II by the time I am done before May. I'm just going to take it day by day. With Ashford, I have to hardest time getting a hold of my academic counselor. Never e-mails or calls back, and trust me, I do it constantly if I have a question.

I just want to get on the ball and get my meteorology career going. A start though, is when the summer rolls around, I plan on doing some storm chasing out here in Colorado. Nothing like Reed does on Storm Chasers, going that close to a storm, but close enough. You can ask my mom and anyone who I grew up with, I've never been wrong about a storm and it comes like a 6th sense to me. Hell, I've wanted to have a meteorology career since I was 6 years old. No lie. My mom inspired me. It was 1993 in Georgia, and we were pretty poor, so we didn't have a tv. I asked my mom what snow was since the teacher made a mention of it. I asked why we never see it. She didn't know what to say. I asked her to make it snow. She said ok and snapped her fingers. The next morning? Wouldn't you believe we woke up to the Blizzard of 93 or the actual Storm of the Century. It was so WHITE and cold outside. We weren't prepared so we had to use socks as gloves. It was horrid, but it did make me question... why did this happen? Why does anything weather related happen? Why do tornadoes do some damage or no damage to a mass destruction to a town? Questions to ponder... and for a 6 year old, it made me extremely curious.

I apologize for the biggest nerd post in the world. I leave you with a video, talking about it...

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The Cluck Cluck Pox

It's looking like Braden has the chicken pox. It's not a bad case of it, thankfully. I'm still unsure of how or where he got it from, to be honest. It's like ever since we moved to Colorado... Braden has been sicker than ever before. He had one cold in his entire life, while we lived at Fort Campbell. We moved here and he got two stomach viruses, one of which made him REALLY sick, two colds, and now the chicken pox. I get that kids are going to get sick, but I always took pride in knowing he never had his first cold until 13 - 14 months and hardly ever got sick. I guess it's about time for me to get out of that and realize now that I do go out more he will get sick(er). *sigh*

 

That's his back, but it doesn't look too bad. 

 

Afterall, he looks happy. :)

I've been glad to have Brendon home this weekend, it was a four day. He'll be going to the field tomorrow through the 28th, as I said before. It was kind of told to us at the last minute, but whatever. We're going to order a daddy doll for Braden before Brendon goes to JRTC in April. I'm trying to prepare for the upcoming deployment as best I can. It's hard, even with Brendon home. Braden really freaks out when he gets out of the car or goes to work. I know when D day comes, it's going to break my heart.

I'm waiting for Braden to go down for his nap so I can read chapters 3 - 5 in one of my texts, and chapters 2 - 3 in my other for my class. I really hate psychology. Maybe I should've applied to CCU and just flat out did general studies and transfer those to MS State's meteorology program online. I mean I'm passing my classes, but maybe this wasn't for me. I feel so stupid for not knowing that sooner that CCU was even here.

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New Car

We finally got another car. A 2004 Ford Taurus. I wonder how long this car will last, seriously. Payments are relatively cheap. $215 a month. I wish we didn't spend all of our tax money, but we used it mostly for things needed. Braden has a new bed and we have things in the home that were needed.

I have a eye appointment today. It's been about 2 years since I had my eyes checked, and it's time for it. I do plan on getting a box of contacts. I miss them. Braden knows me as mama with glasses. He walks in the room if I'm still sleeping, gets on the bed, shakes me and says "maaaamaaaaaa up up". He then hands me my glasses. It's good he knows me as that. I love him so much. He had a field day with bath tub crayons this morning.

I'm not sure what it is, but Braden is getting these... peach like bumps on him. There's a big one on his back that resembles a ring worm, but I don't know where he'd get that from. He hasn't been around any animals or anyone with it. I've been giving him a Aveeno baby bath. I'm thinking it could be a reaction. We just changed him from whole to 2% milk recently, not that he's two. That's the only new thing he's had to possibly have a reaction from. We switched him back to whole right now. Though, Brendon thinks it's chicken pox. Again, not been around anyone with it and he isn't scratching them. Since we changed him back to whole milk, he hasn't gotten any new ones. So, it's possible it's just a reaction. Otherwise, he seems normal. I'll wait a few more days and see what happens and if it continues, it could be something else, then I'll call Evans for an appointment.

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hospital time

The last few days have been crazy. Sunday, Braden had a small fever. We gave him some motrin and he seemed ok. Around 5, he started acting weird. He wasn't blinking or moving. He wasn't responding to anything. I called 911 and while I was on the phone, Braden turned blue in the lips. I was so scared. I rode with him in the ambulance. They just told us to keep rotating motrin and tylenol. That's what we did when we got home when he started to have another seizure. This time it was full out shaking. At first he kept trying to focus on me like he was trying to fight it. He gave me a final look that seemed like "mom I can't fight it anymore" and went into the seizure. It was horrible. We called 911 again because we were told if he had another in 24 hrs to do so. They ran some labs and we stayed over night. He hasn't a fever since Monday thankfully.

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