Fall Table, A Few Scarecrows and School....

I'm slowly but surely getting my Fall Decorations out.

I bought these cute leaf plates at Walmart. An idea I got from Ceekay's blog. She has such great table scape ideas. In fact, it's completely her fault that I'm even decorating my table. ;-)

I bought this little tea light holder from the dollar store last year.

The S&P shakers are from Walmart.
(Maybe Walmart should start paying me for advertising?)

You probably remember my scarecrow bird house from last year.
He is sitting on a small fall wreath.

This little guy is also sitting on a fall wreath.

Well that's hardly it. I have lots more Fall and Halloween decorations to get out but it's going to take time with my school schedule.

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School...

I had a terrible week at school. Two tests and a quiz. My philosophy class was seriously kicking my butt. It's probably the hardest class I've ever taken.
(this being my second degree...I've taken a lot of classes)

Over the weekend I was studying for the test. I've always believed that if you didn't understand something you study more until you understand.

Well I finally laid my head in my hands and cried.

I'm NOT grasping the concepts. After reading the chapters over and over, it still wasn't clicking. It's part of philosophy called Logic. Maybe I'm just not logical, maybe I think with only my right brain. How in the heck do I get my right brain to expand its horizons?

I decided to go through with the test but if my grade was bad I would have to withdraw. The idea of throwing $300 bucks out the door doesn't appeal to me but neither does the stress. And for pete's sake, I can't cry over a test in front of my kids.

I would have to admit defeat and move on.

So I returned to class to get my test. The teacher lists on the board how many students got A's, B's, etc. It look like this:

A=9
B=15
C=11
D=1
F=0


There is one D. Could that be me? Could I be the only looser in the class?

This could be a huge hit to my self esteem.

Low and behold the teacher handed me my test....an A. What, is this my test? Talk about complete and total shock. I almost cried again. The young lady next to me was looking at me like I had lost my marbles. I had won this war, I had conquered this test, I fought the test and I won. Okay, so maybe it's not that big. But is sure felt BIG.

So I'm going to hang in there. It may take me extra study time, more crying and more stress but I'm determined to kicks its butt.