I know that it seems as though all of my blogs have had something to do with my son. I suppose thats because he's my only child and its just been such a big year for him, but I do have a life. Now my focus on life is to finish my college degree. I'll probably go back to school full time this fall. I've been going part time for the past two years so now its time to get on with it. I'll probably end up teaching, but my main interest are geology and anthropology. I currently work at a local high as a special ed. aide. Before that I owned a small jewelry store and mostly what I did was repair work and designing my own jewelry. The business was pretty good but it was very hard to good dependable part-time help. The stress of running the business became so great that it started affecting my health. So I desided that life, family and health were more important. I closed my business four years ago. I love to design jewelry and the business almost made me hate it. I have had a dificult time getting back into jewelry designing. I do craft shows and consign jewelry at another store but  my husband would like for me to start a web site. In many ways I would like to but I feel apprehensive. Maybe I'm afraid of getting bogged down or of the stress I once went through. Maybe I just need a push in the right direction. If it were not for my husband pushing me to go back to school, I would still be talking about it instead of doing it.