September 2, 2019
Becky’s New Semester
Who knew my thirteen year old would be bouncing all over the county (okay, not literally) this semester in her activities?
Becky decided on two courses this semester. Her online class turned out to be a half-semester starting after her birthday. Her Macroeconomics started last week. She has Tuesday and Thursday classes for an hour and a half, getting off just in time for Grandma to pick her up from college on her way to work. This is nice because it gets Becky to her 4:30 gym class which I would be late for! (Logistics is getting to be a Tetris maze because we have four young ladies involved in four different activities at varying times plus normal household stuff and four jobs between the three of us! – This may ease up when Christina becomes an independent driver!)
Becky has Tuesday & Thursday college, Thursday gymnastics, Wednesday youth group, and periodic meetings with people adopting her little piggies. She’s doing an online coding class, doing regular schoolwork, assistant teaching, babysitting, and just decided to start her own website to show people her little farm critters.
Becky wants to be an orthodontic surgeon at the moment; although that has fluctuated from brain surgeon, midwife, obstetrician, dentist, orthodontist, her direction will likely be medical. She studies all kinds of fun things along the way: conjoined twins (brain operations to keep their brains intact successfully), whole body health, nutrition, how nutrition affects the teeth, how a healthy smile affects a person’s confidence, brain development and chemicals, the effects of stress on the body… you name it, we’ve likely heard Becky popping up from some research with, “hey! You know what?” and relaying all this new knowledge. She likes to read opposing views, research, and experiment to see what result she gets.
She’s anxiously waiting for braces; hopefully that happens soon – as she wants a “smile I am proud of.” (But I don’t know how we’ll squeeze another item in our family schedule!)
I’m thoroughly enjoying this discovery stage Becky has been traveling through. I smile when I think of her being almost 2-years-old using my phone charger as a Doppler to “hear” Kimberly’s heartbeat and later handing my midwife the instruments as she named them during the first part of Kimberly’s birth. That started Becky’s love of health, the human body, and eventually medicine. My little scientist. Animal lover. Comedian. I pray she finds her path as God leads her and enjoys her journey along the way!
Type at you next time,
~Nancy Tart