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I just clicked submit on a task for my language and communications class. It feels a bit familiar now, a few months in, "going to college" online. I don't think I'm getting the best education the world has to offer. But it's certainly not the worst.

I don't have great aspirations to be a career woman. My finishing college is simply a recognition that I want this as a child of parents who never went to college, and I want my children to know that higher education is important and set an example for them. I also concede that in today's workforce, it's sadly required that you have some sort of degree. It doesn't really matter if it's in under water basket weaving. This is how the world judges how good a person is going to be as an employee. I don't agree with it, but in order to prepare myself to provide for my childen in the event that the worst happens and I have to work I accept this law.

I'll take an average education, since I can meet these impossibly silly standards of judging the worth of an applicant and stay at home with my kids. I embrace this form of education that enables me to sit on the edge of my son's bed and sing him a lullaby while I revise a research presentation outline. That is, if you'll allow me a phrase of my relatively recent teens, hella cool.

Thank God that I am with my children all day. I spent this morning walking and talking with a friend, watching our children run ahead together and stare at the world in amazement. Then I held a dear almost one month old baby boy and watched him working on a social smile. I went home and talked to my wonderful husband and cooked a peach cobbler to share with family, and another for my friend's great little girl's name day. My husband and I played with our four kids for an hour tonight past bedtime and it was so much fun.

Glory to Christ! Glory to her! Life is good.