Well, I made it through my first week of school, not easy I might add.  There is a reason you should go to college while you are young!
This week's reading has been very interesting so far.  Lots of trends, basically from the United States, on numbers of Americans living alone, births to unmarried women by race, and cohabitation to name a few.  The trend in all of these three have gone up a lot from the 1960's-70's to 2009.  As I read this, I couldn't help but think, why?  What has changed?  One of the topics I want to understand more about is divorce.  Has it really gone up or is just more information being recorded?  Has the trend of
living alone gone up because there are more divorces or did people just never marry and chose to live alone?  Go ahead, give me your input and feedback.  I'd love to hear!
I am very lucky, my parents never did divorce.  My mother passed away after 34 years of marriage.  Their marriage was strong.  They had their different upbringings.  My mother was from the city, wore fancy gloves with her dresses.  My dad,a country boy, and grew up on a farm riding horses.  Love brought them together, but commitment and hard work kept them together.  This is the example I lean to for my own marriage.  Again, what do you think on these topics?

My first class in 21 years

My family at the Puget Sound in Olympia, WA

Hi!  Welcome to my blog.  I have a couple of firsts this last week.  1- this is my first blog that I have ever created and 2- this is the first time I have gone to college as a mom!  I have been married for 21 years.  When I graduated from Ricks College in 1993, I had all intentions to get my bachelor's degree at Weber State. It never happened.  Deep down I never forgot that desire I had to finish school.  Four children later and many experiences and memories, here I finally am back in school!  I cannot tell you how nervous I was Monday night/Tuesday morning before I entered into Clark 317. Yep, I almost vomited! 
I am so excited to start this major in Marriage and Family Studies.  Bro. Williams is my professor and he adds so many insights into our readings that further testify to me that this is the major I was meant to be in.