A house full of teens and nearly-teens is insane!

Well, today is Sunday and it was one of those emotional-roller-coaster-teenage-filled days. I'm the mom to three teenagers which will move to four teenagers in March 2008. Oftentimes I wonder if I am cut out to parent even one child....let alone five of them!

I'm glad the weekend is nearly over and I will head off to work tomorrow and they will head off to school. YES!

The weather was so beautiful today. The leaves are brilliant in their fall color and it was fairly warm today when I went outside to exercise. I'm so grateful to live in a region where I get to enjoy all four beautiful seasons that God has created.

Speaking of work, I'm sure glad that I stayed at the part-time level in my teaching contract again this year. It is the best of both worlds. I have time home each day to manage our family needs, my own needs, and I also get to teach early education in a small public school.

My oldest is apprenticing as a tattoo artist and he will start working officially the first of March 2008...by "officially" I mean as a paid independent tattoo artist. He will be renting space in an established shop right here where we live. He is still in high school, so he is juggling working in his chosen career with adults and being in school all day with other high school students. The apprenticeship just fell into his lap and it was a opportunity we could not pass by. I believe God really blessed my son with this opportunity. Tattoo artistry is what he wanted to do but we never imagined he'd be chosen as an apprentice while still in school. (he will be 18 in February) The competition for the apprenticeship was tough with this being the only "higher end" shop in the area. (which in Wyoming....means quite a ways) I'm proud of him but also feel bad for him with how he can't find much in common with the other high school kids now that he is working in the adult world. He also works part-time at the local theater which is something he does not want to give up so he will continue to do this part-time after he is taking on clients at the shop. He loves working at the theater and has good friends working there also. It is good to see him find ways to use his God given gifts and talents. However, once he is too old for us to carry him on our health insurance he will have to figure out how to pay for his own policy or find work that carries health insurance....a problem many in our country deal with daily.

I'll talk about that at another time. Our health costs each month eat up almost all of my salary....which is really very high and is probably something most folks can't even imagine. So I have a lot of opinions on health care costs and what I feel our country should be doing about it. A suppose a person tends to get strong feelings about topics that touch their lives in a radical, strong, and stressful ways on a daily basis.

I suppose that is all I have to say today......I hope to be somewhat regular on my blogging.