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Rebirth
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I am reviving this blog to two ends. First, I very much enjoyed keeping it when I did, and secondly to share my experiences as a husband married to a woman with PCOS. I recently read Matthew’s blog where he recants his experience with his wife (also where I got the above image). As weird as this sounds, it made me feel better while at the same time not better. I felt so much better reading my life story written by someone else. It’s like he not only knew what I am going through, but he described all the emotions I go through weekly. As Matthew stated, the internet is full of support groups and forums for the women with PCOS but there is little out there for the husbands that support these women and live with the symptoms in our own way.
Kelsey and Witt tied the knot
By · CommentsHere are a few of the pictures I have processed thus far from the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding with to beautiful people. It was kinda crazy as it was a last minute thing and forced Lindy and I to come home early from a Florida wedding we were attending the day before. Witt is in the Marines stationed in Va. and can only get time to travel every so often and even then it’s uncertain. I am glad the weather worked out too, it couldn’t have been a prettier day. (click the image for a larger view)
Halloween Fun
By · CommentsWe carved some pumpkins at the last min last night. It was fun, though I was exhausted from lack of sleep the night before. Check out the pictures!! Kiarin decided that this year he wasn’t going to go trick or treating so we had some of the best Chinese take out we have had in years and did the pumpkins.
Early morning stroll
By · CommentsTo make up for yesterdays word only post, here is a cool little snail I found the other week. He was really motoring along making it hard for me to crawl on my belly and photo him at the same time.
Jobs and the struggle to make it
By · CommentsAs a few of you know, I have been trying to get my teaching certificate “decorated” so that I might stand a chance at getting a teaching job. Right now I only have an intial certificate with an Agriculture endorsement. I am finding in this FFA free county that I am needing at least science on my certificate as well. No problem I thought, I have 2.75 degrees and I took the Biology/General Science Praxis subject area test I should be able to get “highly qualified” status no problem. No so much… It seems that the old adage that decisions in the past often come back to haunt you is truer than I once thought. When I was a freshman, I had the option to take 2 biologies or 2 Chemistries and one of the other. Being that I was a forestry major I chose 2 biologies and one chemistry. Now that I’m wanting to use a different degree to get a different job, I am wishing I would have stuck with 2 chemistries and one biology. Oh, well whats done is done.
As I battle the red tape and get my teaching certificate in order I take time to pause. Is this really what I want to do, where I want to be right now? Though I have never had a “real” job or should I say career, am I working hard to get this teaching certificate, finishing my PhD, and ignoring any and all other options that are serving as a distraction right now the right way to do things? I loved forestry, then I started my masters and I loved the research and teaching, then I started my PhD and I loved the research about education and the thoughts of educating educators. All these things I could see myself doing for a life time. However, I look towards my friend Charlotte Jennings and see what may be (more or less). Charlotte was a forestry major back when girls were rare to find in the degree (and the good looking ones were hunted to extinction). Then I crossed paths with her again in the Ag Ed Masters program. Now Charlotte is a very successful photographer (check out her blog) and her contest for gaining over 500 facebook fans.
As most regular readers know I love to take pictures. Some even turn out decent. Am I over looking careers because they aren’t “safe”? I would like to do some evaluation consulting, but that is scary too since it’s something I can do but have never done it outside the University setting. Have you ever literally jumped off the proverbial bridge and just had to trust the tide was up and would catch you? Have you ever had to make a decision that had the possibility of resulting in utter and complete devastation and did it anyway? How did it work out?