More from today

Katia's appointment went well. She has complained for the last year about not hearing well out of her left year. And when she has ear pain, it apparently is worse. So the ENT looked at her ears, his bedside manner much more pleasant this time, and then decided to do a hearing exam/pressure test. Her ears are fine- he ruled it a virus this time. No infection either. Very puzzling.

My cousin is the truely the traditional "Leave it to Beaver" housewife/mother of four. She blogged today about wearing aprons everyday- something that has been lost in today's world, but quite useful to her. I envision that apron wearing people just really have it all together- the whole mom/housewife role. While it seems like a useful tool to have to wipe messy hands, etc. somewhere along the line I became more of a feminist. I've had to leave my feelings in a box since becoming member of the Baptist church where women are only supposed to teach children- not men and as the bible says, to be completely submissive to her man. I've adapted to that way of thinking with some work and prayers. I think that for the most part, feminism is the pride that women have and in as much as thinking that they can do just as much, just as well as a man. But being full of pride is also not a humble thing. You just can't have both. When I started my full time job, I was the first woman to work at the treatment plant- the lab, operations, maintenance, industrial surveillance and even on the farm fields that we fertilized. And at that time, that's exactly what I wanted to prove- that they shouldn't underestimate women. I've always wanted to do things that break the rules of what a woman can do. A
"chick" with a hot rod and knowledge of how they work, where you put the oil, and what to suspect is wrong when they just don't run right. I've learned alot more in the past ten years from Paul, while he won't admit it, I know he enjoys the fact that he can talk to me about work and I can participate and give him ideas of the problems. I can put those things aside when I have to and as you can tell, I do like to reminisce about the fact that I'm not just a "housewife". Not that there's anything wrong with that. There's just a constant struggle going on inside, but God's not done with me yet!
So where I'm going with this is this: my friend emailed me a job posting at the college. It's teaching part time various Water/wastewater treatmment courses. I've been playing it over in my head and trying to figure out if I should even contemplate putting in for it. Ideally, I wanted to stay home with Tayton until he was at least in KNDG or first grade and work at the school maybe. The current prof at the college wanted to hire me for lab work around Tayton's due date and of course it wasn't even a glimmer. But that would be ideal too, later. I think jobs will be available later and that this is just a test. Or is it a way to supplement the loss of the Fun Park job? I don't know, so I guess I'll just wait for some more divine direction. And I've been also contemplating finishing my degree in the fall- but then again, I want to be here for the kids. Night and online classes would work. Ugh, decisions, decisions.
So for tonight, I'm making dinner- no apron, but that's okay. I used to have one long ago and now, I just have stained up clothes:-) Ha!