Happy Thanksgiving... and the future!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I am so extremely grateful for so much that I couldn't even begin to list them all here.  A few (obvious ones) are I'm thankful for my family both close and not so close.  I'm thankful for my friends who are true and dear to me.  I'm thankful for Winthrop and the job I have and absolutely love there.  I'm thankful for my grad school experience and all of the many wonderful people I have met this semester.  The list goes on and on!  

We are very excited to eat turkey and all of the other great stuff involved in the holiday.  We are even more excited to do so with family and friends in Tennessee.  We will be spending this holiday saying goodbye to family as we make final preparations to move to Jamaica.

The countdown continues with only 55 days until we leave. We are still waiting on confirmation of housing and a work permit, so our leave date may actually be postponed, but until we hear otherwise we are preparing to leave in the middle of January.  Some great news is that my mom may be traveling with us and spending those four months in beautiful Jamaica with us.  We are still working out the details and have to wait and see if her retirement date will be approved, but if that happens, I can’t begin to tell you how happy we will be.

What is crazy, however, is actually thinking about life post Jamaica.  At Winthrop it is time to start thinking about what classes we would like to offer in the Fall of 2012.  I am now trying to determine what my schedule will be then.  I have spent these last eight months anticipating this trip to Jamaica that I have not been able to think about our life once we return.  What I do know so far is that we will be packing up and moving closure to my job (and ultimately closer to my school) next summer, once we return… Yay! I know what preschool Nay will be attending next school year… aaaannnndddd that’s about it.  That’s all I know… I don’t know which or how many classes I will be taking at USC, I don’t know what my schedule of classes will be for the ones I will be teaching at WU.  I don’t exactly know what will be going on with my older kids (to enroll them in school or to not enroll them in school… that is the question). So, that is where I stand… excitedly preparing to leave and not knowing what the future holds J

As always, thanks for reading!!!!