Thanks Tami !

Another one of my great ideas came to bite me in the butt this summer. SCHOOL! 2 years ago I decided to go back to school. Yes its already been 2 years crazy huh? Well when I applied they asked to see my math and English scores..... UM huh? what scores? they have this nice little test that you have to take and it places you in the appropriate level of Math and English. I about lost it. I walk in to go back to college after about 15 years and the first thing you say is fine here is a test. So I decided to take it right there on the spot and get it over with. I then hand it over to the lady who I think is going to say we will call you in a few days with the results, no... technology has changed since I went to school last and they run it through a machine and there is your immediate score! I placed great in English and Math. I placed above the required classes but then they tell me I still have to take 2 English classes and 1 math class.

For the 1st semester back I did my English and then dove into all the Biology classes that I love to take. The summer is approaching and I get this lovely little notice in the mail that says my test results for my Math expire this summer!!!!! OUCH. I decided to just suck it up and take Math this summer. Ok now I find no class available except one that is 5 days a week. Not going to work with the kids home for summer. So another great idea...ONLINE. I enroll and here comes the day to start the class.

Now realize I have really not done Math is like 18 years at this point. I think the only reason I placed in this high of a math is because I had been helping Christopher with his math the last few years. So in the first week I realize I am up to my neck. I have no idea what I am doing and this is a16 week class shoved into 8 weeks and I have to self teach myself. Not fun. I had decided to drop the stupid class but noooooooo Steve convinced me to go ahead and suck it up and stay with it. Well I should have listened to my gut because I would have never been able to do it with out my friend Tami.

Tami is the best. She is a friend in my neighborhood that majored in Math when she was in college. So I get through my first test and got 79%. Ok for those who know me that about killed me. I am a perfectionist and it did not go over well. The class is just getting harder and I am panicking at this point. so Tami to the rescue. I would call her with problems and we would analyze then forever. I should have just asked her the answer and saved us both hours hahaha not. Well Tami was a trooper. She talked me through tons of problems for tons of hours. She took time away from her kids who wanted her off the phone! She took time away from her hubby who she never gets to see these days. She researched and researched info for me on the Internet, looked through her books, let me borrow books, and really went way beyond just giving me a hand. A huge thank you to her kids for dealing with their mom being on the phone so much. (tell them I am finally done). I am soooo thankful to have had her this semester. She is the most amazing woman ever. She sacrifices anything to give to anyone who asks. She never told me no she never said hey lady this is your class. She sucked it up and helped me the entire semester. I just wanted her know that I saw how much it took away from her own life to help me. It meant the world to me and I am so grateful to have had a resource like that this semester. If I had not I know I would not have passed this course without her. So a huge thanks and kuddos to one of the most unselfish person I know. Oh by the my final is at 7am tomorrow wish me luck cause I cant take Tami with me!

THANKS TAMI!!!!!!