Isaac's Birthday

So my son turned 4 this past week. I'm so impressed with him. Everything that he's able to do and the things that he enjoys. A lot of them of course are influenced by his mother and I. Daddy (and Papa) love to fish. He's been wanting a fishing pole for a while. I figured 4 was old enough for him to break his first one - so I went out and bought one.

I had given it to him on Saturday but we didn't use it till it his birthday. He really wanted to go out and luckily I only had one class that day so I took him out and showed him the ropes - in the back yard.

What I was really amazed with though is who well he got it. True - it was in the back yard with a plastic fish. But he could cast it out most of the time... probably better than I did my first time and I was much older when I learned.

He now can't wait to go fishing for real. So we're going to be going in April when fishing season opens. I think it'll be a blast. Hopefully he'll have more success - I still haven't caught anything that I could really eat - unless you count catching I do at Safeway on the way home from fishing.

Congrats on being 4 buddy. I love you.

Winding Down - too fast

Doesn't "Winding Down" give the impression that things are going slow. It makes me feel that I should be relaxing. In reality though even though the quarter is winding down - I have to kick it into high gear. In my college Success class we have 1/3 of the points left in the quarter even though theres only two weeks. My English class we have our final paper due next Tuesday and then have to present it as well after that - it's worth 20% of our grade. All this while Overtime was just asked for at work again. Oh yeah - I'm trying to get over a cold - Issac turns four in a week - we just lost almost a week at school to snow days - and I'm planning a surprise for Sonya.
Wow, I just want to crawl under a rock and let it all go by.

I've done that before - that is the old me. The new me though I'm hoping will persevere and push through this. Make a plan and stick to it. If I do that - in two weeks time I should be very proud of what I accomplished. This is make or break time. Time to prove that I am a new person and not a quitter anymore.

But if I hear one more person say that this quarter is "Winding Down"...