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August 27, 2003
Well, as you can tell from my into that I am not the most eloquent writer on the face of the earth. I am sitting at my computer, and I know that I need to write an entry, but have no clue as to what I should say. I have written and re-written this entry about a dozen times. I should probably elaborate on my intro a little. Give y’all little bit more background. My DH is my soul mate. I could not have asked for a better man to be my husband, best friend and father to my children. Fred will be 31 this year and I will be 29 in just a few weeks actually. We both come from military backgrounds. I moved around a lot when I was growing up. My childhood is really a blur. I cant remember one school from the next. When I was twelve we moved to Maryland and I have been here ever since. We went to the same high school but didn’t start dating until a few years after. He was the best thing that could have walked into my life. So we got married, had kids bought a house, two dogs, your typical American family.
We both work full time which means Kassie and Freddy both go to daycare. They used to go to an in home daycare since they were both born, but she moved and had another baby so we moved them to another in home that was closer. That didn’t work so we decided to put them in public daycare. There are some issues there that I am trying to be patient with, but I am losing my patience and think I will go look at a couple of other daycares this week. For anyone that works, the hardest thing about having children and working is feeling comfortable with the environment that your children will be spending the majority of their day in. Right now I am concerned that my children aren’t doing enough during the day. Kassie is supposed to be in the Pre-K curriculum but I have seen no real signs that they are teaching her anything remotely related to Pre-K. I decided since they have a whole new set of teachers I will give them a few weeks to get settled and decide from there. But I won’t close any doors on anything else in the meantime. I think seeing my own children in daycare has opened my eyes to a lot of things. For the longest time I couldn’t decide what I wanted to be “when I grow up”. I work for a medium sized IT company in the HR dept. and while I like my job and what I do, I am not sure climbing the corporate ladder is my true calling in life. I am not cut – throat and cruel. Unfortunately, being a woman and a mother, I sort of hit my “glass ceiling”. So, after tons of soul searching and driving my poor husband crazy I have decided that I want to go back to school and get my degree in early childhood education. I love kids, and I want to feel like I have made a difference in someone’s life and beable to help shape the future of kids. Kids today have it more difficult than previously because both parents work, there is more crime and negative influences in their lives. It is going to be a long road but I have decided that this is truly what is in my heart. I have started taking a class on Saturdays. The classes are shorter than the regular classes but each class lasts over 4 hours. So there you have it in a nutshell.
Okay, well, I have bored everyone enough. Hopefully, I will have more exciting stuff to write about.
Have a great week and may God watch over you and your little ones.
Kim, Kassie and Freddy
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