1. I can successfully navigate from my house to Phoenix, Glendale, Target, Starbucks and back without getting lost or having to use my GPS....!!!! Yay, believe me, instant stress reliever.
2. I am in the running for two jobs...both of which I am excited about, just waiting for the confirmation about whether or not I "officially" have the job. I will inform you more about that as I become more informed.
3. I drove to Henderson, Nevada this weekend all by myself and made it there and back!!!
4. School has started and I have made it to all of my classes on time via the bus! As crazy as it sounds, riding the bus was my biggest fear about starting grad school period. How funny, I am sure plenty of 5-year olds boarded the bus with great excitement and I was terrified. I woke up in a panic numerous nights after dreaming I missed the bus, or rode all the way to Vegas on one, or I left my shoe on it. Seriously, I was freaking out. Lol, now I actually enjoy riding the bus. Waiting for it to come is the worse part because by the time the bus comes, I am dripping sweat and look like I have to run a mile just to get to the bus stop. The bus stop is directly in front of my apartment complex. :)
So there you have it, God has been so great and has provided so many blessings, which I didn't doubt he would but it is fun to be able to look back on them all now. School is pretty relaxed. I am in a program with 12, that's right 12 other Ppeople. We are a baker's dozen of Infant mental health practitioners. The program is run by a husband and wife team who are just plain adorable. We have Bob on Tuesdays for our infant development class, and then Wednesday we have both Barb and Bob for three hours for our observation and reflection seminar and then Barb for our assessment class Wednesday evenings. My cohort is all females and I am one of the youngest people in the program. Most are married with kids, jobs and tons of life experience, but we all fit together pretty well. It's a weird feeling right now because on campus I feel so much older than everyone else, but when I am in classes I feel like the baby.
The program itself is quite interesting. This semester is focusing on learning how to observe and reflect about our feelings...that's right, FEELINGS. We were assigned to find a family that has an infant under the age of two and twice a month observe the parent-child interaction and environment and then journal about how it makes us feel. I don't think I have used the term "I feel" since junior year of college in my honors seminars. My amazing God-sister and her husband agreed to be my observation family, hence the driving to Nevada this weekend, and I have loved getting to watch the interactions between them and their son. It's interesting to take the role of observer and yet to be considered a professional in the field. I feel like I am learning new things all the time and then other people look to me for answers and help. It's kind of cool to be able to offer up articles and theories and personal experiences to families. I am looking forward to getting to move forward and put more of what I am learning into practice and hopefully influencing others for the better.
I am also getting excited to become a parent myself, not that that is in the near future to my knowledge, but reading and observing the parent-child relationship and the Uuniqueness that comes along with that makes me excited to experience that in my own life. I am curious to see how I respond and what hopes and goals and challenges God presents me in the blessing of children. More so, I am excited to know what my spouse will Ooffer and how we will balance/ challenge each other in the efforts to raise our own family.
The more I learn, the more I hunger for knowledge. I am so confident that this is where God wants me just because I crave being in a position to learn and do more in the infant-family practice field. I am not sure what the rest of this year will offer, and I am sure this first semester is just a nice way to transition us into the crazy semesters that are to follow, but I think I am up to the challenge. After all, I am a professional now ;)
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