The boys and I are finally making some progress on the tree. They were kind of hounding me about it this morning, wanting to start setting things up. I had one more video assignment to complete before the Zoom meeting I had scheduled 12:30. But they weren’t going to let it go so I just went ahead and started putting on lights. It wasn’t ideal because we had two strands of clear and one strand of color.

So I put the color up the middle of the inner part of the tree and used the clear lights for around the rest of it. We still ended up needing to get more lights, which perhaps we can get out and get some tomorrow. I’m serious about this small Christmas, I’m not spending money. The lady I helped this summer with the knee replacement surgery sent me a surprise check for $1408. She said she Googled home health wages.

I told her I’m going to put it toward school. A few weeks ago I was in one of my moments where I started looking into the Marriage and Family degree at Concordia. Long story short, they were going to let me join the cohort in January. It all seemed perfect except for when I asked again to get the final okay for doing it, there was no okay. I’d misunderstood and we didn’t have 8,000 more dollars to spend.

It’s like, at first his job was to keep me from quitting school, and now it’s to keep me from signing up for any more. I had talked to the head of the program and everything who had gotten special permission from the dean for me to join. The way I was going to do it would’ve meant I would have had to take a few more classes which wouldn’t have given me another degree but it would’ve allowed me to apply for a MFT license.

It’s fine. These moments pass and then I look back and wonder what I was thinking. Miles’ family was back from vacation tonight so I picked up Elianna after leaving my work site. We were both anxious for her to get back to the dog. He was very happy to see her and definitely remembered her. Dad had chapel in Altamont this morning so I brought our son to driver’s ed. I feel like I have more to say so I’ll try later.