Excitement and Change

Last week my husband, son and I decided we were going to move back to Charleston, SC. We had been talking about where we were going to be living for quite a few months and were having a difficult time making up our minds since Gary's job plans had been put on hold for the next few months. Chris, my son is 15 and has decided that he wants to go to a school that has a good junior ROTC program and wants to go to the school that his grandfather used to teach at in Charleston.

Through recovery, I learned that only way for me to achieve my goals was to set the goal and go step by step to achieve each goal. I had to be systemmatic in my process until I reached my goal, otherwise I would lose my way and not be able to achieve my goal. I am proud of Chris, he has learned to set goals and knows how to achieve them. He has set several goals in the past couple of years and been able to achieve them. He wanted to play baseball on the school team and he has done that, he wanted to receive all A's on his report card and he has also done that. My son has shown the ability to set a goal and reach it, he will do well in life.

Although there will be a lot of changes in our lives, I am looking forward to them. I am looking forward to the opportunities that my son will have by going to a school with a ROTC program. He will be able to have new opportunities that he would not have had a the smaller school that he was going to in Van Buren, OH. I am also excited to be back home to be close to my parents, my grandmother who is in a nursing home and my niece and nephew. My husband and I were hoping to move to Charleston soon and now we are and we are very happy. Life is full of exciting choices and changes, sometimes you just never know what is around the next bend.

I am still going to be finishing my Master's Degree in special education by October and may even find a new job prior to the new school year. I am excited by this, I did not even think I would have a job during this school year. There are several postings in Charleston County and maybe by the time I get my teaching license squared away with the state of SC there will be jobs available. I am still setting the achievable goals each and getting the things I have to do to get us moved this month so that we will be settled into the house we have rented by August.