Laura's First Day of Medical Asst. Classes

Well she did it...my little girl went off into the world on her on without me and survived!!! She did however call me on her lunch break to tell me she was doing ok, but that it was very different, she was coming home with a ton of homework and would be having her first test on Thurs.

I know most of you know that I have 4 daughters and Laura is not the oldest but, she is the one out of the four who seems to need me the most...and I'm NOT complaining! Today she started classes at Central Florida Technical College. This term she is taking Anatomy, Medical Terminology, and hmmm..I forgotten the other class. She will go M - Th 8 - 3:30 so, she has a full schedule. If all goes as planned at the end of 2 years she will be a Certified Medical Assistant and will also take her State Boards to be Certified to take X-Rays. At that time if she decides she can enroll in the Sonogram Program {they make GOOD money} she says she doesn't care how much they make she DOES NOT want to stay closed up in a dark room all day doing Sonograms. She has already put in a request to do her Internship at the Jewitt Clinic at the RDV Sports Complex and is hoping she will get hired after she completes the Internship and takes her State Boards for X-rays.

Central Florida Technical College is not your standard College it's more of a Technical School which is a better option for Laura but, is also why I think she found it just a tad difficult today. Her class is made up of an assortment of people of different ages and nothing at all like High School. She did meet one person her age so, that is a good thing.

Tonight at dinner Mike was making fun of me by telling Cody {Laura's boyfriend who was over "helping" her do her homework} that I had packed Laura's lunch for her today. I said well that was only because it was the First Day of School. Laura replied by saying you mean you aren't going to pack it everyday for me????

And, yes I did cry this morning as she was leaving. Wanna know why??? Because she was wearing Nike's...that's right!! You see the 3rd day of Kindergarten Laura came home and told Mike at dinner that the boys in PE could run faster than her and she said it was because they wore shoes that had a check mark on them...LOL {Nike's}. She said if she had a pair like that she would be able to beat them at running. So, right after dinner that night Mike took her to the mall to buy her a pair of Nike's. The next day she came home and proudly announced she could now run just as fast as the boys!!

I know we are supposed to cut the apron strings, cut the cord or whatever you want to say and I might even try it in a year or two, but right now I'm happy that my 18 year old daughter still needs me and likes it that I pack her lunch...{ok, she's to lazy to do it herself I know this, it's just that the other sounds better}.