Friday night

What a day. I had an insightful and deeply encouraging counseling session with an incredibly gifted trauma specialist. Then a widely varied voray into the outside world with my son.

We cruised the local community college bookstore after an eye-opening conversation in the car. I always felt that the best, open discussions with my kids, especially my son, happen in the car. Maybe it's because you are not looking at each other. Maybe it's because it's a contained environment. Anyway, some things opened up and were resolved. One particularly surprised me, as my son was beginning to make peace with the loss of his ipod. His thinking? Maybe it was just something he really didn't need after all. My take on the stealing of this device which I thought was important to him? Track down the people he thought stole it, do something!! And there he is expressing a decision to just be at peace with it all, even grow. Another shorter conversation helped bring out some helpful info to my son while reinforcing the trust--incredible level of trust--he has in me.

After that was food shopping at Winco where he went in with a budget and stuck with it--choosing healthy foods to boot. In fact, both of my children are working at eating better and exercising more far better than I am. It used to be the other way around. Oh the humiliation. But I am falling in line to their good example.

So it was everyday, it was out of the ordinary. Tomorrow I clean the house and take one more examination for my teaching license. Then reading for Monday class. And reading for the most challenging grad paper I have been asked to write. I will let you know about that a bit later.