Summer is nearly over

It has been a wonderful summer. Probably, one of the better summers I've had in nearly 20 years. The majority of what made it special was spending more time with my daughter Morgan. Having this time with her has inabled use to become very close which is nice as it has been a great psycological lift for the two of us.

During the last 2 and half months we've been to the State Fair, a huge water park, and took a wonderful trip to visit my brother and his family and go to Disneyland. There were lots of other things from going to the movie together to simply walking around the mall window shopping. Through it all we both shared laughs and smiles and now that the summer is ending I'm going to miss the time we've shared together.

Morgan started school this last Monday as did my oldest. My oldest Davis is now a Senior in High School. He's pretty much chomping at the bit to be his own person. I've come to the realization that I can't stop him at this point from doing so, so I'm slowly letting go. As, for Morgan I plan on holding on as tight as possible for as long as I can.

As for me, I'm returning to school for one more semester of Nursing school. I start class next Tuesday. I'm both excited and nervious about returing. I can sense that I have some rust and my clinical skills need to be refreshed. I'm hoping that I can do that quickly, I think I can.

In 16 short weeks I'll be graduating from Nursing School. If someone asked if I would go back to school to do this 5 years ago I would have said no. At that time I never thought I could do this but now I can smell the finish line and although I realize the next 16 weeks will be challenging and difficult I don't doubt that I can finish.