Diaries Of A Trophy Wife

This -N- That

I really probably do have other things I should be doing, but I've been wanting to just sit down and write in my blog for a long time. Not really for anyone's sake of reading, cause I think I've lost most, if not all, of my readers, but just because it makes me feel good to get things out sometimes.

School is going really good. I've got four weeks left in this quarter. In both classes, I have an A, so far. My economics class is especially difficult. My marketing class is easier, and kind of fun. This coming week I am going to do market research at Dollar General to study consumer buying behavior. I wanted to go to Wal-mart for this assignment, but I couldn't ever get a hold of a manager to get permission. I have been really examining my feelings on next quarter. Travis will be going to campus, aside from working, four nights every week for the eight weeks in summer quarter. It will be tough to say the least. So that will leave me a lot of time to do things on my own, but Dalen will be crawling, and maybe starting to walk by the end of summer, so he will keep me extremely busy. With all that said, I'm thinking about only taking one class. Summer quarter ends on August 14th, and Travis will have a degree! FINALLY! His academic advisor has already told him to go ahead and start putting in applications and resumes. With his grades I'm hoping he will land a job he loves. So after summer, Travis will be home alot more, so I'm not sure what I should do about continuing school. Would it be worth taking one class here and there? I would really like to spend time with Travis and Dalen as a family, since Travis has been so busy for the last two years! But at the same time I don't want to give up on myself either, or be a quitter. I've got some thinking to do on this.

Friday evening Travis and I spent at the Funeral Home in Pt. Pleasant because his Uncle Steve passed away. Then Saturday was his funeral. He was a really great person. I was really nervous about being around the whole family, most of you know the history there. But I was pleasantly surprised, everything went relatively well. It is sad though that it took having a funeral to get the family together, and speaking to each other for that matter. There were cousins and uncles of Travis's that I had never met before, and he hadn't seen since he was a kid. But there was a lot of tension between certain people, myself included. For the most part though, I felt welcome, and it hasn't been that way in a long time. I am really working on forgiving them, I cannot forget, but I am trying to let it go and accept them for the way they are, and realize that I can't make them into who I want them to be, they are who they are. It has been a very long road, but I am doing so much better with this.

Here's some new pictures...

Momma and Punkin.
He just had a bottle and couldn't stay awake.
He just fell forward on me and went to sleep.

Papa and Dalen. He won't keep his socks on!
He thinks it's funny.

Dalen's little teeth..He didn't like us looking.

Wow, now that I have made time to post, I can't think of anything else to write about. Go figure.