DD Day 3

Let me start by saying yesterday was a learning process. During the day things went smoothly. It was a different story last night.

Last night was a scout night for our oldest son. We haven't let him attend meetings for a few weeks because he needed to focus on school work and getting things turned in on time. Last night we agreed to let him go to the meeting because we needed to sign a bunch of paperwork. One of the items that was questioned last night was if we wanted our son to go to summer camp. My husband wasn't sure because the dates conflict with a trip we have planned, so he tried to call home. He received the standard busy signal because I was on the phone with my mom. My husband then attempted to call my cell phone. Although he knew I probably wouldn't answer my phone he tried to call it a couple of times. I would have answered my cell phone if I knew it was ringing. Since school is in full swing for me I always leave my ringer off or on vibrate. Normally this isn't much of a problem because I would constantly be checking my phone. However, I am trying to be less reliant on my cell phone. So the ringer stayed off and I left my phone in my backpack. It wasn't until I went to log my food for the next day that I saw my husband tried to call me several times.

Once my husband was home he made this comment to me "If you are not going to use your cell phone while you are at home can we please get call waiting put back on the house phone?" That made me think about how I might need to modify our communication systems for when I am home. I'm not sure exactly what that looks like just yet but I do know that adding call waiting to the house phone is on tomorrow's to do list.

Let's fast forward to today. I felt the need several times to update my status on Twitter or FB. I resisted the urge but it was still there. Mostly because I was frustrated today. I'm not sure why but I was. I discovered my sociology teacher might not be as bad as I originally thought, my a&p lecture teacher is awesome, and I like my other two classes. For some reason I felt the urge to let the world know just how frustrated I was with little things. Like forgetting my pencil case in my car after marching all the way across campus. This desire to vent to friends and followers got me thinking. Scary some days I know. I wonder what the statistic is of posts that are negative in nature. I mean think about it. There is always someone posting good things but is that the norm or the exception?

I'm happy to report that I have resisted the urge to vent my frustrations and instead had a conversation with God. Part of my conversation was asking Him to reveal to me why I was so unsettled. I'd love to tell you that I had a great break through on this but I didn't. I did have some great conversations with my classmates though. I ended up talking about stuff in my personal life that must have been bothering me because I normally wouldn't sit and share what's going on in my life like I did today. Maybe this is what being a grown up looks like!