I have a MAJOR case of..

SPRING FEVER! It has been so beautiful outside these past few days! And I was stuck inside working. Ugh. My schedule this semester leaves me with maybe 30 minutes of daylight at the end of the day...I cannot wait for summer! Summertime is really my favorite time of year. Fall is the most beautiful, but summer all around is where I would love to be stuck. I only have to worry about work. No papers, no professors, no 8am classes...summer, hurry up.

Hump Day.

Ending day 3 of playing "Momma Cogdill" I still have 4 alive kids and only one dead shrimp. That's pretty good odds if you ask me. Nothing too major has happened and really they haven't fought that much. If anything, they've been overly excited about me being here and even more helpful than normal which I greatly appreciate :)

It's tough balancing school, work, and 4 kids for a week. Let alone having to do this 24/7. I was telling my mom last night on the phone how much more I respected her after having this experience this week. Still, the boys let me do my homework and keep themselves busy. I took them out to eat tonight and let them go to church so I know they at least had fun tonight.

Mother of 4.

Parents leave 4 boys with sleep-deprived college girl.

Headline that will probably be followed by my death announcement sometime next week. A family I've known my whole life asked me to house/babysit a week and a half while they are scuba diving in Mexico. I love these boys so of course I said yes! They are 7, 10, 16, and 19. As soon as I got here the littlest one was fast asleep claiming "sick" which we all know what he was really claiming...he missed his momma. Poor thing. I feel bad for the little man because he truly is his momma's boy. I reminded him of wrestling tomorrow and I made breakfast for dinner soo I think he's perking up a bit. He might have cracked a smile when I read his bedtime story, but that's to be determined :)

He's so darn cute when he's happy!

Anywho, the reason I started with that headline was because of this 6am wake-up call I was threatened with. When I put them to bed, I asked what time they needed to be waken-up and they informed me they'd be up with the cows. Ugh, I need my sleep! Welcome to motherhood.

This week I have a paper, two quizes, and an exam...and I'm blogging. Go figure.

Nice to blog you.

I did it. I jumped on the bandwagon. I have my reasons for doing so, one being a newly acquired internship (insert HUGE smile).
After all my moving around college campuses and thinking about majors I think I have finally settled on the major for me. And I kinda think I know what I would like to do with the rest of my life. Hopefully.

Back to the internship: it's at St. John's. We will be working with the Media Relations department. We will be helping create a heart video, working with the Sunshine Run, and writing press releases (YAY!) among many other things with those being the most important. Thus the blog. One of my professors told my class last semester that the best way to constantly improve your writing was blogging. I did not get this at first and still am a bit weary, but I'm willing to give it a shot. So in hopes of improving my writing skills here goes nothing.

I say we when referring to my internship because THANKFULLY another girl from Drury got an internship also! I was very excited when I found this out because we had to sit through the physician's and nurse's orientation...so having someone else in the same boat as you and to know was very comforting. I found this out on my way to STL with Drury's DCN last Thursday. SGA and Drury's Alum office made it possible for 11 of us to travel there, eat at a very nice restaurant while networking with STL's finest and stay at the Drury Plaza for FREE! Ah, the perks of Drury! We also visited several angencies the next day to see possible internships available. I can't remember the last time I was stuck with that many women for two whole days. It was the best time! We all had so much fun and I met a lot of new girls that formed into new friendships :).

I can't believe how many references to school and professors in this post I've made! Anyone who knows me, knows I am very skeptical about being a Drury student, but I'm starting to change my mind. It's actually not so bad...but anyway, here's another professor reference. Another one I had last semester always assigned papers ending with this: Never leave a paper without a psychological closer. As basic as that sounds, I had never heard it put that way. It stays with me for every paper I write now. But this is no paper...so I get to break the rules and leave you with a quote instead...

Write it on your heart that today is the best day in the year. -RWE