It's almost finals week again and my head is spinning with deadlines.  I received great news that I am a student candidate being considered for the Charla Richards-Kreitzberg Memorial Scholarship and I'm so excited about it.  What is crazy is that my study partner and new friend Stephanie Hamel is also being considered for the same scholarship along with 3 others.  She is incredible and a great writer so of course I want her to win, but I told her that I don't want to read her story till after she wins LOL because I also had to write a Personal Statement Essay for the same Scholarship ...... She and I also applied for the same job on campus without realizing it and were fortunate to both be hired for a fall position as Student Peer Assistant. We have been hooked at the hip studying for Joe Bean's amazing Anatomy and Physiology Biology 231 class, he is about the best professor I've ever had the opportunity to study under.  If I am blessed as a winner of the scholarship I will be able to enroll in the rest of his biology series as well as micro biology and I will be on my way to complete pre med @ George Fox or OSU.....ya baby

     I am also excited to spend more time with volunteer work for women in need,environmental protection programs and my girls the Restless Hens and their egg production. (I live on the Abiqua a beautiful amazing clean river and we want to keep it that way). God willing all this will happen and he will bless me with a way to buy a car this year. I've been without a car for almost 3 years (Judi my ex mother in law has been an angel driving me everyday, as my personal taxi. Without her, the last 3 years would not have been possible) There was no other way of entering College full time without giving everything up. I dream of Gradutaion day with my son's Toby and Tyler in the audience. I work to make them proud and show them that anything is possible, even if the chips are down. It is possible to give it your all and make it happen, and I want to be a role model that shows them that they can make their dreams come true too.