It's been a long time!

I haven't posted in 2.5 years. Wow, that is a very long time. It's fun to read back though, so I'm posting again, even though nobody reads this.

I have returned to school myself. In my former life I was a Chemist doing R&D for a consumer products company headquartered in Cincinnati. I quit when my twins were born and never looked back. I hated my company and was bored by what I did. I vowed to switch careers when my kids were older. Well, my youngest started first grade in the fall of 2010 and I started pre-reqs for my MA program in speech pathology. I started the MA in January of this year and just finished my third term. It is a part-time distance learning program, but it's been fairly intense. I'm hoping it's less intense now. I'm also working in a preschool on my practicum. I'm enjoying that. I really love being able to make a difference in these kiddo's lives. I'll be done in August of 2013, it seems a long ways away, but I'll make it, I don't really have a choice now, my field is in demand and I know that I'll be able to work once I'm done.

My kids are getting older. My oldest is a Freshman in high school, he's still crazy tall and is 6'4.5" tall. He plays football, wrestles and plays baseball. The twins are 13 and in 8'th grade. Still skinny and into soccer. Bradley also wrestles and plays baseball. Alex is 7 and in 2'nd grade. He likes soccer and baseball and wrestles as well. He broke his wrist this past summer and that killed baseball for him completely. We'll try again next summer.

I don't have tons of time to myself, you can imagine. But I walk for exercise with my neighbor and lift weights. Oh, yes, and had a breast reduction and lost 75 lbs this year! I'm working on losing 20 more within the next few months. I'm thrilled at my new profile and improved health. My doctor treated me like a poster child for unhealthiness when I went in last Jan, it's all much different now, although I actually had no health problems then, but whatever. I was just lucky. It was just a matter of time.