Happy Birthday to ME!

This is the year for unusual birthdays. Tanner's fell during midterm week, and mine has fallen during finals week. So, when people ask me what I'm doing for my birthday, I say, "studying!" Of course, it's not all studying. I took the kids to the Children's Museum. I made a ham dinner. I did a short stint at the foodbank, and now, I'm blogging. But, while at the museum, I read and made notes, and dinner was made during study breaks. The kids are entertaining themselves, and I am only vaguely alarmed at loud banging sounds from the back room. I figure as long as no one is screaming, I can keep on studying.

I can now officially post the totally, awesome, exciting, breath-taking, jumping-up-and-down news that Tanner was accepted into the engineering department at A&M. His application arrived 2 days before the close date, and they had already filled all the slots for Chemical Engineering, so they have him on the Industrial Engineering track. Lest you think that is bad, we were told that 700 people were denied their first pick of Industrial Engineering, and the admissions department told us most people that don't make the Chemical Engineering cut are sent to general studies which means that A&M really wants Tanner in the Chemical Engineering department, they just didn't have room. So, we have to apply for a transfer in June. We are just relieved that he is in. There were times this year that we were scared that our move might have been for nothing since A&M is such a competitive school. It's nice to know that so far everything is falling into place. I use the term "falling" loosely, since it is obvious to us that God is truly guiding our steps and facilitating the entire process.

We continue to pray that God would keep His hand upon us, that He would provide for us (especially now that Tanner is in A&M and it looks like Mommy needs to get a job), that our children will feel loved and heard, that we take the right classes and choose the right teachers, that we find time to continue working on the house, that the roof doesn't start leaking like a seive, that the cockroaches stay under control, that we find friends for Reagan, and that we continue to adjust to Texan culture.