Master Blacketer

That's right, you read the title correctly I am now a master. Ok not really but Tad is. Last Friday he finally finished his masters degree in history from UIS! I'm very happy and proud of him even though the whole event was very anticlimactic.

It happened so fast with no time to get excited about the fact that the end was near. And it seems weird to so it happened so fast because it really took six years after he finished class work. After submitting some things many months ago, last week out of the blue he got an email that set a date for his defense on last Friday.

So he went and the committee signed some papers and now he's official. This is just the first of many. I need to start saving room on the wall for all the diplomas he'd gonna get.

Congratulations Tad!

Busy Busy

June was a great month for Tad and I. We would get up between 7 or 8am and read our bibles and go to the gym and come home and spend our afternoons in a variety of ways. We may have sat outside and read a good book, or go into Springfield and run a few errands, or even clean the house. Yes having time to clean the house seems like the "good ole days"

But times have changed. July has come upon us. This means that I've started my summer school program called credit recovery. Students who have failed a class can retake in online. I have to be there to help them with their math questions and grade a few tests. It's actually a pretty sweet job but it throughs off our whole lazy summertime schedule. I know I shouldn't be complaining but I am. It's hard to get up in the morning and get home by one o'clock, starving by the way, to turn around and go to Lincoln to work out then get home only to help your mother with garage sale stuff or help with bible school. It's very exhausting to get up at 6am and not be home again until 9pm.

But it will all be good and it's kinda nice to have things to do for a change. And I'm really looking forward to this road trip that Tad and I have planned to the Grand Canyon. It's less than 2 weeks away! If you have any suggestions on camping in Colorado and avoiding getting eaten by bears feel free to let me know.