Momma Hen

One 2 x 4 at a time… Momma Monday

January 18th, 2010 by Jen Hen under I'm Just Saying, Momma Monday. 3 Comments.

I tell you what, decision making is for the birds. To build? To buy? To renovate? To start from scratch? Planning, budgeting, “what-if” analyzing. Disappointment, excitement, and downright anticipation.

The steps to come are the steps toward the next chapter. Melodramatic, eh? Yeah. Us theatrical background people are real good with the melodrama. ha. X-man’s own room, Lil’ C’s own room, and a room for the “baby it” that has yet to come into play. Dining room, office, and a kitchen with some actual storage and counter space. There are plenty of things on the wish list for DH and myself (and X-man… Carter’s still to young to really voice an opinion on this topic). At any rate… eventually will commit to one option or the other. I’m ready to make that commitment, but until DH quits driving me INSANE! picks which way he wants to go with things, there will be no final answer.

In other news: X-man made Honor Roll… AGAIN! Yep, that’s my kid. Lil’ C went for a check up at the ENT Specialist last Friday and checked out fine. We didn’t end up going to Chuck E. Cheese or anywhere else around Paducah. He fell asleep within five minutes of leaving the doctor’s office because he was fighting off a nasty cold. There was green ooze coming from his nose and really must not have been feeling well considering he took  his nap at 10am which NEVER EVER EVER, and I do mean NEVER, happens. It really bummed me out that he got ill at the end of the week because Boss Sanders and I were going to get the rugrats together while we caught up on life.

The semester seems like it’s going to drag out for me. I don’t mean to complain, because I’m very thankful that I’m able to work on my degree, but I really wish I wasn’t required to take Biology. Attendance isn’t required for the class which to most would probably seem wonderful, seems like a really bad devil’s advocate to me. Biology is one of those classes I do NOT need to miss. Science classes usually equate to a “C” unless it’s more along the likes of Psychology. In other words, when I’m feeling that slump of “do I really have to go to class” during the semester I’ll have the little devil on my shoulder saying “You should, but you sure don’t have to. Go ahead. Take another day off. The teacher won’t mind.” Of course he won’t. But my grade sure will.

Social Work class should be great, as always. I really enjoy this subject for studies, even though I’m still not certain it’s the degree I should be working on. I can’t really go wrong considering once I finish this tract, the road splits a hundred different directions for where I can go career wise. And there really isn’t a doubt in my mind that I’ll eventually enter a Graduate program. I’m a planner… I want to know where I should be placing my focus for the future. I’ll handle changes as they come, but until that need arises, I need to have my eye on a goal ahead. There’s something disappointing though. As I sit in a classroom surrounded by my peers who are to eventually become my colleagues, I find myself unsettled.

One of the first assignments for this class was for students to comment on the discussion board, outside of class, and state their previous perception of Social Welfare or “welfare” as a lone word. While reading the other students responses I felt a knot form in my stomach. So many of these individuals who have chosen to get a degree in Social Work seem to have made that decision blindly. They are entering the program with the negative precognition that “welfare” is for, and I loosely quote, “for lazy people who choose not to work.” SIGH! Yeah, that was a HEAVY sigh. You would not believe the number of students who actually put that out there. Granted, they weren’t phrasing it in such a way that they didn’t seem to keep themselves open to a change of perspective, but I really would have expected more people to already have an open mind on this topic. It’s not as if this is a degree people choose to make big bucks. So why on Earth would anyone choose to get a degree in Social Work who thought that, for basically minimum wage, they were going to work with a bunch of “dead beats”? Did they not already realize that virtually everyone has had assistance from the Social Welfare system in one degree or another? Social “Welfare” isn’t just food stamps and medicaid. It isn’t just a welfare check that gets mailed to certain people. It’s the Women’s Movement, equality in the work place movements, equality in general movements, insurance agencies (not just Medicaid), Red Cross, United Way, the federal policies for wages for every American and far to many additional organizations, groups and “things” for me to even mention.

At any rate… I digress. I can only hope that I’m able to learn everything I need to learn to do whatever career I pursue to the best of my ability.

And with this, I bid you all a farewell and good night.