Another productive day for writing! But now I'm starting to miss my littlest one. I just called to see how he was doing and he was too busy to talk much. That's sweet, though. He's never spent much time with his paternal grandparents or his father even; seems like they're completely uninterested unless I call, and then they're so happy to hear from us.... It's confusing, but I guess some people just don't like to make the call.

Anyway, I'm glad I did because my son seems so happy to be there. They're having the greatest time making little rockets as I called and visiting a little town that had real live donkeys walking around in the streets earlier this week.

My older kids and I are currently getting along pretty well. My oldest son read my original story and praised it! My daughter tried to read it, but she just couldn't get interested. I don't let that discourage me, though, because she doesn't like to read that much; she's our family math wiz. At least she tried.

I'm starting to look ahead to school now. I always start worrying about now (end of July/first of August), afraid I won't get enough classes to pay all the bills. I teach Freshman and Sophmore English lit and comp, but only as a part-timer--never know until the last minute how many and what type of classes I'll get. However, I love to teach, so it's worth doing the part-timer thing until I can get my Ph.D.