Flag Day

Happy Flag Day everyone! I have always really enjoyed Flag Day, mainly because it’s my brother’s birthday too. I think we’ve always thought it was pretty funny that his birthday is on such a silly holiday. When we were younger and living in a neighborhood with lots of other young families, they did parades for some holidays like Halloween, the Fourth of July, and Flag Day. I remember on Flag Day a fire truck would come out and all the kids would hold a flag and carry it as we walked around the neighborhood. Some kids rode in wagons, which I think I remember Timmy and Zach (a little boy we babysat) doing as I walked alongside with some of my friends. We were young enough that when we told Timmy the parade was for his birthday, he believed us. I love when kids are at that age where they believe things that make them extremely happy.

This Flag Day in Tulsa is stormy and wet. Today Brian and I are going to go to my parent’s house to celebrate my brother turning 20. He’s old. He is going to be a sophomore this year at OU and he got straight A’s this past year taking all these ridiculously hard classes. He’s probably going to work for NASA or the CIA or something doing math all day long when he graduates.

It has been almost 2 months since my last update, which is terrible and I’m very sorry. A lot has happened since my last post that I will just sum up quickly. We have moved into a house, which is extremely nice and awesome, I’ve gotten through one fundraiser and planned another one, a golf tournament, which is going to happen tomorrow, and now that I’ve given it a substantial amount of thought and actually started taking classes, I think it’s safe to go ahead and tell the world that I am going to go back to school and apply to get my master’s in Genetic Counseling. It’s something I hadn’t heard of a 2 months ago, but it is such a perfect fit with where my life and work have taken me that I think it’s really what I’m supposed to do. The next step is to take a few classes that I need before I can apply to the program. The classes are Organic Chemistry (which I’m taking this summer), Genetics, and Biochemistry. I’m really excited about taking Genetics because it’s something I always wanted to take when I was at OU, but I never did because it seemed a little silly to take such a heavy science class as an elective when I was already taking big science classes. Now I wish I had followed my heart and taken it back when I wasn’t working full time. I know it will all work out fine, it’s just that the next year is going to be busy with night school.

So, that’s what’s been going on around here lately. I’ll have to find some pictures of the house and put them up here. I promise I’ll be back sooner than in a month and a half.