Well, this is embarrassing ... I forgot all about this blog! Okay, I didn't really forget I had it, but I haven't thought of writing in it in ages.
Maybe that's a good thing. It means I'm not currently freaking out about Aidan graduating and leaving home.
Currently.
God has really been working to teach me I need to stop worrying about the future and just focus on living today. Not that I've really achieved that in any great way, but it has helped me remember He gives me grace for today, not tomorrow (as I've said before), and when we get to that point (graduation/college), He will be there to abundantly provide the grace I need.
So I'm just choosing not to dwell on it right now.
Part of the reason for that is that I've had to be dwelling on the ridiculous spine problems I've been having. Occasional excruciating headaches, constant "minor" pain in shoulder, neck, head, etc. I finally decided to go to a spine specialist, who says he thinks he can help me (yay!), but I have to have a CT Myelogram imaging test next week, which involves a SPINAL TAP (boo!!!!!!!!!!), so I'm not looking forward to that. And I wonder if the "fix-up" for my neck involves surgery, which could be scary. Oh, well ... once again, God will be in all that when I get there. I just have to put it all in His hands.
I've also been spending a LOT of time on my fictional blog/novel lately. I'm recording it (aka, reading it out loud) for my mom to listen to, as she's had some issues with her eyes and her glasses not being all that great. It takes a long time to read/record nearly 150 posts! I've only done 40, and of course discovered that my little digital voice recorder doesn't have that great of quality. Still, it's heaps of fun to do (I love doing dramatic reading!), especially Phil's part, since I get to talk with a New Zealand accent!
On the college front, Aidan was named as a NATIONAL MERIT FINALIST!!!!! (That should have been at the top of the post!!) Hopefully this will manifest itself in heaps of scholarship opportunities being piled at his feet. So far it's only manifested itself in lots of colleges that DON'T have an undergrad linguistics program begging Aidan to come there (Texas Tech comes to mind). We're holding out for UT (and Aidan is also holding out for U Chicago) to come through for us. We need to talk to the school guidance counselor, though, about what he should be doing to ENSURE that they do. (preferably UT)
We did the math a few weeks ago and discovered that U Chicago costs THREE TIMES as much as UT per year! So Aidan is realizing U Chicago might not be in his near future. (Unless, of course, they decide to offer him a full-ride or nearly-full-ride scholarship ... you know how I would feel about that!) Aidan's problem is he's a little, um ... lazy ... about this stuff, so if he doesn't get off his derriere and get busy, he may end up at Austin Community College, which is NOT the plan.
Anyway ... hopefully that gets you a little caught up on what's been happening. I'm sure as graduation gets closer there will be lots more to talk about!
