Today is a new day!!!

Ok...sorry about such a short post yesterday. I had to catch up on my blogroll and it took several hours because I think it was at least a week's worth that I hadn't read. I'm trying to be good and read for my class so I've tried to stay off the computer as much as I can make myself, sometimes I'm successful, sometimes not. However, I am on vacation so I felt like I should catch up. I got a lot of good reading in and added a couple more blogs to my blogroll. I have to be careful because I tend to get completely sucked into the blogsphere to the point that I neglect what's going on around me. I'm getting better though. I try to get on every few days but that puts me really behind on my blogroll and I try to read them all! :)

Anyway, things are good here in Katy, Miss Deborah is growing by the second and is already very opinionated about her world at 2 weeks old. She is a very good baby though and doesn't really fuss unless she's hungry or wet. She is extremely active though and she and I have had several talks about her letting herself be a baby and stop trying to sit up!!! She's also very picky about the position of her head! I was trying to burp her this morning and she kept picking her head up and turning it to the side so I gave up and just held her head. I don't want to have to leave her but I know that I will have to. I will see her again in July for Joseph's first birthday so that will be fun, but she'll be a whole new baby since they change so much!!! 

I am not ready to go back to school...I am enjoying this break. However, I love my class and have learned so much about myself and the people around me, it's amazing. I have also learned to have more compassion towards people with mental illnesses and not to assume that it's something that they can just fix. They can be helped though, and the best way to help them is to teach them to help themselves whether that be through medicine, therapy or a combination. Learned behaviors can be unlearned but it may take a lifetime. Sometimes, the anxiety that underlies the behavior cannot be changed and the person is going to forever have those feelings, but they can learn to control them and how to live with them. People with mental illnesses who have a good support system tend to do better than those who don't. It's very sad to me that some people don't have a good support system although I can see how it would be frustrating to deal with someone with a mental illness on a daily basis, especially when they're in crisis. 

On a more positive note, it rained and stormed last night, which I love!!! I love thunder and lightning, they're my favorite weather, just not all the time or I would live in Washington or Oregon. I have to have a little sunshine. That's why I like the mountains, they have the perfect balance for me. It's cool, but sunny with some storms. 

I think we're gonna go to Galveston here in a little bit so I'm going to go get ready!!! Have a great Memorial weekend everyone!!! I hope yours is blessed and safe!!!